Today is Brandon’s birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDON!

I hope you birthday is as great a GODZILLA MINUS ONE!

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HOMETOWN! Everybody comes from one or consider where they currently live to be one! But did enough people get a picture that represent their HOMETOWN to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, November 27, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):

1-Sara Lockner – 1 week
2-Willy McAlpine – 1 week
3-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 2 weeks
4-Mary Green – 2 weeks (2)
5-Amy Peterson – 2 weeks
6-Susanna Funk – 3 weeks
7-Elainie Hernandez – 4 weeks
8-Alexis Stensland – 7 weeks
9-Scott Degeneffe – 14 weeks (2)
10-Sabas Hernandez – 15 weeks
11-Mike Vest – 21 weeks
12-Sheri Fakhouri – 24 weeks (2)
13-Logan Kahler – 25 weeks (2)
14-Nathanial Brown – 26 weeks
15-Jesse Howard – 26 weeks
16-Tamara Peterson – 29 weeks
17-Mindi Terrell – 41 weeks (3)
18-Brandon Kahler – 64 weeks
19-Linda Bennett – 70 weeks (2)
20-Sarah Toot – 71 weeks
21-Angie DeWaard – 75 weeks
22-Dawn Krause – 79 weeks (2)
23-Kim Barker – 85 weeks
24-Joe Duff – 86 weeks
25-Teresa Kahler – 97 weeks (2)
26-Carla Stensland – 97 weeks
27-Micky Augustin – 99 weeks
28-Andy Sharp – 100 weeks (3)
29-Bill Wentworth – 101 weeks
30-Cathie Morton – 105 weeks
31-Elizabeth Nordeen – 106 weeks (2)
32-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 108 weeks
33-Kio Dettman – 110 weeks

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:

Sara Lockner (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks

Willy McAlpine (Boone, Iowa) – 2 weeks

Mary Green (Michigan) – 3 weeks

Mary Green (Michigan)

Susanna Funk (Dallas Center, Iowa) – 4 weeks

Elainie Hernandez (Boone, Iowa) – 5 weeks

Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa) – 15 weeks

Scott Degeneffe (Boone County, Iowa)

Sabas Hernandez (Ankeny, Iowa) – 16 weeks

Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 22 weeks

Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa – Represents Boone, Iowa) – 25 weeks

Logan Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 26 weeks

Nathanial Brown (Boone, Iowa) – 27 weeks

Jesse Howard (Boone, Iowa) – 27 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Boone, Iowa) – 30 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Iowa – Represents Ogden, Iowa) – 42 weeks

Mindi Terrell (Iowa – Represents Ogden, Iowa)

Brandon Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 65 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 71 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas)

Linda Bennett (Kansas)

Sarah Toot (Pennsylvania) – 72 weeks

Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 76 weeks

Dawn Krause (Boone, Iowa) – 80 weeks

Kim Barker (Cozumel, Mexico) – 86 weeks

Kim Barker (Belize City, Belize)

Joe Duff (Texas – Representing Curlew, Iowa) – 87 weeks

Joe Duff (Texas – Representing Boone, Iowa)

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa) – 98 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)

Carla Stensland (Boone, Iowa) – 98 weeks

Carla Stensland (Boone, Iowa)

Micky Augustin (Colo, Iowa) – 100 weeks

Andy Sharp (Boone, Iowa) – 101 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 102 weeks

Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 106 weeks

Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa – Representing Bettendorf, Iowa) – 107 weeks

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa – Representing Ogden, Iowa) – 109 weeks

Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 111 weeks

Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa) – 533 weeks

30 participants! That is a fairly down week by current standards. I guess fewer people love the town they are in or the town that they came from than I would have suspected. That is okay. Hopefully we will rebound this week.

There were submissions this week taken in the following places:

+ Belize
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Mexico
+ Nebraska
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas

Here is the current calendar year list for states:

+ Arizona
+ Arkansas
+ California
+ Colorado
+ Florida
+ Georgia
+ Hawaii
+ Idaho
+ Illinois
+ Indiana
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Kentucky
+ Louisiana
+ Maryland
+ Michigan
+ Minnesota
+ Mississippi
+ Missouri
+ Montana
+ Nebraska
+ New Hampshire
+ New Jersey
+ New Mexico
+ New York
+ Nevada
+ North Carolina
+ North Dakota
+ Ohio
+ Oklahoma
+ Oregon
+ Pennsylvania
+ South Carolina
+ South Dakota
+ Tennessee
+ Texas
+ Utah
+ Vermont
+ Washington
+ Washington D.C.
+ Wisconsin
+ Wyoming

41 states and 1 district! That is pretty impressive! Over 80% of the way there! Every continental state west of the Mississippi is now accounted for.

The Outside of the United States map is currently:

+ Spain
+ British Virgin Islands
+ Mexico
+ Nassau Bahamas
+ Canada
+ Peru
+ France
+ Austria
+ Germany
+ Italy
+ Slovenia
+ Belize

The big milestone this week was Micky joining the Triple Digits Club! WooHoo! Also Jesse joined the Half Year Club!!

But it wasn’t all rainbows and unicorns. Jen and Amy’s 2 week streaks came to an end. Alexis’ streak ends at 7.

But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:

LINES

LINES! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!

But what is a LINES picture? Simply a picture where a major compositional element or the subject matter of the pictures includes LINES. And of course, there are all sorts of LINES.

While considering possible subjects for your theme, meditate on the following quote and I have no doubt you will come up with a great submission:

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
-Steven Wright

I look forward to your interpretation!

RULES

The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge. There is a limit of 3 submissions per participant. To be considered the photographer, you have to be the one that takes the picture. Don’t be stealing the work of other artists. You can submit pictures for other photographers that took pictures with your camera or phone, but give credit where credit is due.

You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.

That is it. Thems the rules!

That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of LINES in this place that is nothing more than millions, maybe billions of lines of code next Monday.