Another town festival I attended this year was the Stanhope Watermelon Day with Teresa. This first collection is of pictures I took wandering around before the festival really got started. Before the parade was started.
Still plenty of pictures left to share from this trip.
This is the second to last collection of auxiliary images from trips I made to harvest signs for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. I made this trip with Teresa. This collection starts where the last collection left off. Just outside of Bloomfield.
The Dutchman’s Store is located in Cantril and I would also recommend visiting it if you are ever in the area. Hard to believe there is just one collection of THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT auxiliary images left to share!
We begin this collection of auxiliary images I took on my trip to Davis County with Teresa to harvest the town signs of Davis County where the last collection left off. In the beautiful town square of Bloomfield. This collection will also include pictures from the Dutch Country General Store. Which if you are ever remotely in the area, I highly recommend visiting.
There are still quite a few more pictures from this trip left to share.
I’ve shared all the pictures I took on my Birthday Road Trip with Jesse and Nader from the Orange City Tulip Festival. This collection of images are from the beginning of the trip home. Including stops in Hospers and Emmetsburg among other places.
It was a really good trip and I have one more set of pictures from the trip left to share!
Time to start sharing the final collection of auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. The final county I harvested town signs from was Davis County. Teresa went on the final THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trip. There are only 4 incorporated towns in Davis County, so there were stops in other counties. Including the first stop in Pella for the Jaarsma Bakery:
Near Chillicothe
Ottumwa
Floris
Drakesville
Bloomfield
There are plenty more pictures left to share from this road trip. Including two sweet general stores!
This is the fifth and final collection of images I took on my trip to Scott County to harvest their town signs for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT.
But I want to start by discussing Georges Seurat. I’m not a huge fan of Georges Seurat, which isn’t to say that I don’t like him. But my favorite painter is Van Gogh and I’m not sure their styles could be any different. However, I still like Seurat and I think you should too.
Here is a little information on him from the Wiki:
Georges Pierre Seurat 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
Seurat’s artistic personality combined qualities that are usually thought of as opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility, on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.
Why am I bringing him up and pointing out his contributions to the history of art?
Check out this final collection to find out:
Walcott
Iowa City
Newhall – I tried to buy some meat here, but I got kicked out because I’m not an elitist. Just a simple working class no-collar joe. It was really eye-opening for anybody that thinks I’m an elitist.
The statue version of Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” is one of the coolest things I didn’t know existed that I stumbled across on this journey to get to know Iowa better. It is one of the things I want to go back and photograph again. I just absolutely love it!
The next time we hit the dusty trail to finish up the auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT we will visit Davis County.
Time to share another collection of images taken while harvesting the town signs of Scott County. Every single last one of these pictures was taken in Le Claire. Le Claire is probably the best town in Scott County. If you like artsy stuff and antiques, it is a definite must visit. Not just because it is the home of Antique Archaeology, the store made famous by the show American Pickers. But that part is pretty cool too.
If you are wondering, the bird I took like 100 pictures of is a Great Blue Heron.
Still a ton of pictures from Scott County left to share!
Time to start sharing the auxiliary images from my trip to Scott County to harvest their town signs. Scott County was the second to last county I went to for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. It was a county I knew would be challenging cause of the Quad Cities, but it didn’t turn out to be so rough.
Here is the first collection, the first few pictures were taken on the way to Scott County:
New Liberty
Dixon
Donahue
Princeton
Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead
Still so many picture left to share from this trip!
Time for the final collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Dubuque County.
The first few images in the collection are from the New Melleray Abbey. It is a monastery of Trappist Monks that supports themselves by making coffins. Yes. Coffins.
Here is some information about them from their website (newmelleray.org):
New Melleray is a community of Roman Catholic monks. We belong to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. Disciples of Jesus Christ, we join countless men and women who throughout fifteen hundred years have discovered the Rule of Saint Benedict to offer a challenging and effective way of living the Gospel. Our communal way of monastic life in the Cistercian tradition serves our desire to be wholly oriented to the experience of the living God.
Located southwest of Dubuque, Iowa, New Melleray was founded in 1849 by monks of our Order from Mount Melleray Abbey, Ireland. Like all monasteries, New Melleray Abbey is a school of charity. The monastery is a place where we learn to love God, to love ourselves, and to love each other. Together with its fertile farmland and rugged woodlands our monastery provides us with solitude and precious silence.
Through our guest house and other forms of monastic hospitality, we are happy to offer to our brothers and sisters who follow other paths, a place where they may find acceptance, peace, and prayer. Click on “Visit Us” for various ways to share in our way of life as a long-term guest living within the community.
With Trappist Caskets we support ourselves and supply employment to local men and women by making and selling simple wooden caskets and burial urns of exceptional quality.
I do want to go back and check it out when I have more time, so if you are interested in such a road trip, let me know. I don’t think I’ll get many takers on that one.
Here are the pictures:
Field of Dreams
A hot dog stuck in her throat…
They were serious. They had a guard watching people.
Seriously? They can’t bury those power lines?
That is the corn guard. In the background is the lights of the Major League stadium where the Cubs and Reds played and the White Sox and Yankees the year before that.
The corn guard actually did try to rustle me out of the corn.
This might make me a bad Iowan, but I actually don’t love the movie FIELD OF DREAMS. That being said, the field from the movie still being around is pretty sweet and it is definitely worth a visit. Bring a ball and a glove and “play catch”. Only psychos “have a catch”.
Would you believe that there are only 2 counties worth of auxiliary images left to share? Well, believe it because it is true. Next up is Scott County.
I recently took Rodan139 down for a quick flight around the grounds of the Kate Shelley Museum. I should really take Rodan139 every day while it is still illegal to fly. Rodan139 is a DJI Mavic Pro2. On September 16, it will be illegal to fly the guy without adding a Remote ID Module. Now there is a rumor out there that the Remote ID module might get postponed. I’m hoping this happens because the Remote ID Module is not module. The average price of them is around $250. Which isn’t a terrible price to keep Rodan139 in the sky, but the other side of the coin is that many of them are on backorder. Even if I wanted to get one, I don’t know than I could.
Anyways, here is hoping that the new rule gets postponed. And here are some pictures of the Kate Shelley Museuum:
Hopefully there is another collection of drone pictures next Tuesday.
