Rich, I will consider what you have said.  This particular image perhaps contained too many highlight sorts of things at diagonals..I have seen this cause problems at screen resolutions.
Sharpening was mimimal in this case.

I do agree on file size.  This one was my largest as I best recall for a gallery image at 216kb.  Rarely is more needed or desired for that matter.  Most of mine are a bit smaller with gallery images not exceeding the "thread" limit of 200kb.

Thanks for the input.   and, just for you, again congrats on the fine looking website.    Tom