please, no more pretensious californians! Destroyed their own area, now they come up here to impose the same crap as down there. Next they'll bring the damm illegals they can't seem to live without. Stay out except to visit.

Most of my family were born and raised in Montana and Northern Idaho, including my father (1927).  Most are sill here in the Northwest.  Some left  but nearly all returned.  My Father left Montana to Serve His Country.  His military service took him all over the world and the United States of America.  As a result I grew up in many different places around the United States, including Southern California.  It was a real blessing for all of us to finally be able to move back to the Great Northwest nearly 20 years ago.

My family actually homesteaded Garfield County, Montana around 100 years ago (1907+/-). It wasn't called Garfield County back then.  At that time the people brave enough to homestead Northern Montana and North Idaho were mostly from other countries;  Irish, Scotch, English, French, German, Danish, etc.  It is wonderful that we have such a diverse heritage and that those that were brave enough opened these territories for us to enjoy, protect and raise our children.  Being fully involved in our communities, cities and counties will help preserve what we hold so dear.  We all need to be willing to take the time to be involved. 

Pam

These shots are fantastic. It's the kind of country that really speaks to my heart. My Mom is getting to make her first trip west to Northern Idaho and Montana. She's 84! I hope I don't have to wait that long.

Vicki

Vicki, I hope you don't wait that long either.  Bravo to your mom. It's is just awesome that she is still traveling and enjoying life!  Take a look at my blog on the Trail of the Hiawatha.  She might enjoy do it.  Here is the link: http://activerain.com/blogsview/584323/The-Hiawatha-Butt-Stripe

Pam

Hi Pam, Another great post.  I often see  many posts on ActiveRain where the spacing for the photos are a bit too close to the words. If it is OK with you I can tell you an easy fix this and you may really like how the posts look after. Go back into your post and go to edit mode. Click on the photo and then the photo icon on the task bar. You will see the word Appearance at the top. Click on that

Try setting your photo position right, left etc. as you prefer, and then set the numbers for spacing as follows. Use 9 in the Vertical , 9 in the Horizontal space and usualy 0 in the border ,unless of course you want one,lol.

Try that and see if you like the outcome.

Wecolme to the Group, Pam

PS, Pam these pictures are truly awesome. You seem to have a very good eye for the nature beauty. There are some really cool ways to bundle them and if you ever need or want a good resource for making a presentation like that, just let me know. Your Photo Journalism is beautiful. Your consumers are so lucky to have you and your talent.

William,

YES, YES, YES.... your help is greatly appreciate.  I did play with that Appearance thing.  I got so frustrated I quit.  Some photos it would let the words wrap.... some not.   Some photos would stay where I instructed (right, left, center, etc) and some not.

You have inspired me so I'll go in and try it again using your 9 and 9 and 0 suggestion.

Thanks again.  I'm very new a this blog, Internet & Active Rain thing so I am deeply grateful for any help, suggestions, ideas or criticism.

Pam

William,

I tried your suggestions.  Unfortuantely, it just resets to the original settings when I save it.

Bumbed Pam

Hi Pam, I 'll check and this and see If I can discover the problem.

What I tried was not the solution Pam, I was thinking because you added borders it took away the same amount of space vertically and horizontally, I tried it and this is not the answer. You have me stumped. Go back to edit and click on a photo. Click on the picture icon again, click on appearance and tell me what it says. What is each of the choices from the beginning?

example, lets set it to align left. It then shows the photo pixel size, the aspect ratio box should be checked, the next line would be Verical set to 9, Then Hoizontal set to 9, border set however you want and then the style. This is code for all the previous choices you made.

Read me what you have in each area see what is happening here.