It has been a long while since I have posted, frankly for two reasons. One was the cold summer and my lack of desire to get out on the bike last year. The other was the pain involved in blogging. I have hated how much work it is to put together a really nice blog and post to it.
Microsoft To The Rescue!
The Windows Live Mail came long and saved the day! It is a piece of cake to use, and so far has worked seamlessly between my e-mail program, where blog posting should be done from, and the actual blogs themselves. I have it working on MSN and Blogspot now, and they are both as easy as can be. Admittedly, I hav to format the images to a smaller size on Blogspot than MSN, but the way Live handles images, it was simple to set up a couple of default sizes that work for both blogs in the image default settings, and it is just a matter of a quick change and everything goes from hanging 
out and looking funny to fit and friendly in a zip. Also, I have the copyright info showing up on images auto-matically, which is very important for me as a photographer. (See this picture for a fine example. this is a road leading to a pub in Clains that claims to be the only pub in Britain that is on consecrated ground.)
Perhaps now you will see more blogging going on at this site since it no longer feels like suicide to create and post a Blog! Thank You Microsoft!