Let''s head back to Bali and a Blogger rant

I have been offline for nearly 24 hours, thanks to my (NOT) "very reliable" internet service provider, AT&T.  Granted they are cheaper than some, but keep raising their rates and performing poorly.  When it rains, I seem to have this problem, even though they promised they had fixed it the last time I was offline for about six days.

After I got back online, I wanted to leave a few comments and create this post.  But Blogger told me I had to sign in, something I have not done in several months.  It took me forever to remember my new password I had created four months ago.  Once I did, Blogger told me I had to add at least ONE more app, like a tablet or cell phone before I could get onto Blogger.

If you've been around my blog for any length of time at all, you know I don't have a cell phone, a tablet, a laptop, or any number of things they wanted me to include.   I'm so old school, I still use a VCR.  To me, it indicated another way Google can interfere with my life and my privacy.  Since I finally had phone service, I called my friend Scott, and he somehow knew how to get around the problem.  Seriously, if I didn't have him to help, this blog would have gone silent as of yesterday.  I hope this doesn't happen to you, but if it has, please let everyone know in comments.  Now I'm off my soapbox.

A month or so ago, we went to Bali.  Since it seems to be gloomy everywhere I visited before the meltdown, I thought this lovely spot in Indonesia would be a great place to set down our magic carpet on our magical mystery tour.  Not sure what I'm talking about?  I'm joining Hazel of Hazels' Creative Moments who's this month's host at Art Journal Journey.

Bali is many things, including these rice fields in Ubud.

I stumbled on this image at Trip Advisor.  It is a picture of Tanah Lot Temple.

The Tegalalang Rice Terrace always looks lush and beautiful after heavy rain.

Although I can't be sure, these look like marigolds to me.  I have no idea what their significance to Bali is, other than it made a lovely photo.

I swear, after looking at over 100 photos, all the temples started looking the same to me.   All I could find was "unique temple in middle of lake."  It appears to have been taken in Ubud and was on the Trip Advisor web site.

And so you don't get confused, all these images were of Bali, an island of Indonesia.


The three images were cut from three travel brochures and adhered to a used file folder (the back of my first Bali layout I made last month).  I sewed the images together, then sewed them all around the outside of the file folder so it wouldn't interfere with the reverse side.  "Bali" was computer generated.

Thanks for understanding why I haven't been around to visit sooner.  And thanks for joining me at Art Journal Journey.  I really, really appreciate your visit.