Lessons in Blogging

Howdy all,

I have here some pictures that I'm working with, trying to load them onto this blog. Of course, if you're seeing them, it worked. Yay!!! Along the way, I learned a few lessons about blogging, which is always a good thing. Lesson #1: If the blog software has a little message pop up that says, "Are you sure you want to leave this page? Any unsaved data will be lost," the answer to that question is not, "yes," which I happened to do the first time around, but "no." So, oh well, lesson learned. Lesson #2: It's a little difficult to get the layout of these pictures just right. I have added the pictures first and now I'm attempting to write around them. It's not working very well. I think in the future I'll take a different approach. Lesson #3: I tried to load a video to the site, but it didn't work for some reason. So I guess lesson 3 is, that if you want to load a video, it takes a different process than loading a picture. We'll leave Lesson#4: how to actually load a video for another day, I think.



These first three pictures are from a trip Jen and I took to the Oregon coast. The top one is the haystack at Cannon Beach. There's all sorts of fishing birds that live on top of the rocks and fish out in the ocean, one of which is the puffin. The picture's too far away to see any of the birds, I think, but if you see the white stuff on the top of the rocks, you can probably figure out what that is. : )

And then our next picture is one we took on our way back to Wenatchee from the Oregon Coast. Jen and I stopped off at Mt. St. Helen's. So here we are, posing in front of the mountain. Again, it's probably too far away to tell, but if you look closely, you can see a new cone forming on the top, and a plume of smoke rising out of it.

Okay, so there's some sort of formatting snafu here that I'll have to work out in the future, but anyway, here is a picture that is related to the video I was trying to include. It's a picture taken at Pike's Place Market in Seattle. That guy is stacking up fish on the display case. When somebody buys something, they toss the fish into the back so that it can be cut up and wrapped. It's a little bit of a tourist attraction. And it's tough to actually catch them tossing the fish with a digital camera. You almost need to take a video to see it work.

So there you go... What do you think?