Desktop appearance: Can't restore to normal size.

This is probably a Lion 101 issue, but it's got me frustrated.
The desktop image somehow got "larger" so that the whole menu bar for instance is not totally visible. I have to put the cursor at the edges of the screen which has the effect of "pushing" the screen image so that I can then see what else is in the menu bar.
Any ideas you have are welcome.
Thanks for your help!

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