can't make images side by side with text under them

I forked your workspace and there seem to be a few errors. Not sure if you have updated however, from the version of your files you uploaded to fork, your link elements have invalid href paths that are not set up correctly.

Your code:

 <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css/normalize.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css/main.css">

Your paths are incorrect, on the forked workspace you don't have a css folder, only one folder that holds all your files (index.html and main.css) the directory path followed by your css folder is not a valid path either (normalize.css) in this case.

Correct code:

 <link rel="stylesheet" href="normalize.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">

Even though the above code is correct, there is also a missing normalize.css file so you aren't making use of that CSS in your project.

The reason why your paragraph elements float to the right around the list elements instead is that you haven't nested them inside the list element tags.

Your code:

 <li>
  <img src="img/img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">           
 </li>
<p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>

Correct Code:

<li>
  <img src="img/img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
  <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
</li>