Here is a quick reminder!
The Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group is having a clothing drive to help stock the free clothing closet at Augustana Lutheran. If you have any clothes that meet the requirements in the flyer to donate, bring them on down! You can donate them at Boone First United Methodist Church during office hours (8-1 Monday – Friday methinks) or before or after worship service on Sunday morning or… bring them down when we are having Youth Group, which would be this Wednesday from 6-8 PM. Or you can track down a member of the Youth Group on your own, but I’m not going to tell you how to do that.
Thanks!
WEDNESDAY! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!
As of 12:01 PM on Monday, March 16, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks:
1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week
2-Mary Green – 1 week
3-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week
4-Alexis Stensland – 1 week
5-Willy McAlpine – 2 weeks
6-Becky Parmelee – 2 weeks
7-Sara Lockner – 4 weeks
8-Sarah Karber – 8 weeks
9-Deanna Peters – 12 weeks
10-Jesse Howard – 14 weeks
11-Kio Dettman – 18 weeks
*12-Deb Powers – 81 weeks
13-Mike Vest – 95 weeks
14-Lowell Davis – 115 weeks
*15-Scott Degeneffe – 134 weeks
16-Sheri Fakhouri – 144 weeks
*1-Logan Kahler – 145 weeks
18-Nathanial Brown – 146 weeks
19-Tamara Peterson – 157 weeks
20-Mindi Terrell – 161 weeks
21-Linda Bennett – 190 weeks
22-Sarah Toot – 191 weeks
23-Angie DeWaard – 194 weeks
24-Dawn Krause – 197 weeks
*25-Kim Barker – 205 weeks
26-Joe Duff – 206 weeks
*27-Teresa Kahler – 217 weeks
*28-Carla Stensland – 217 weeks
29-Micky Augustin – 219 weeks
30-Andy Sharp – 220 weeks
31-Bill Wentworth – 221 weeks
32-Cathie Morton – 223 weeks
33-Elizabeth Nordeen – 226 weeks
34-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 228 weeks
But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks or the rules of the challenge or how to submit. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:
Becky Parmelee (Bella Vista, Arkansas) – 3 weeks
Sarah Toot (Summerland Key, Florida) – 192 weeks
Teresa Kahler (Ames, Iowa) – 218 weeks
Elizabeth Nordeen (Ames, Iowa) – 227 weeks
Willy McAlpine (Ames, Iowa) – 3 weeks
Micky Augustin (Ames, Iowa) – 220 weeks
Dawn Krause (Ames, Iowa) – 198 weeks
Angie DeWaard (Ames, Iowa) – 195 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa) – 82 weeks
Deb Powers (Ankeny, Iowa)
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa) – 145 weeks
Sheri Fakhouri (Ankeny, Iowa)
Christopher D. Bennett (Boone, Iowa)
Kio Dettman (Boone, Iowa) – 19 weeks
Monica Jennings (Boone, Iowa) – 1 week
Deanna Peters (Boone, Iowa) – 13 weeks
Carla Stensland (Boone County, Iowa)
Teresa Kahler (Boone, Iowa)
Carla Stensland (Cedar Falls, Iowa) – 218 weeks
Andy Sharp (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) – 221 weeks
Jesse Howard (Des Moines, Iowa) – 15 weeks
Sara Lockner (Johnston, Iowa) – 5 weeks
Mike Vest (Madrid, Iowa) – 96 weeks
Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Mary Green (Manchester, Iowa)
Nathanial Brown (Marshalltown, Iowa) – 147 weeks
Kim Barker (Nevada, Iowa) – 206 weeks
Cathie Morton (Norwalk, Iowa) – 224 weeks
Suzie Brannen (Oakland, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Tamara Peterson (Perry, Iowa) – 158 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa) – 162 weeks
Mindi Terrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
Shannon Bardole-Foley (Summerset, Iowa) – 229 weeks
Lowell Davis (West Des Moines, Iowa) – 116 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (West Des Moines, Iowa) – 2 weeks
Sabas Hernandez (West Des Moines, Iowa)
Scott Degeneffe (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic) – 135 weeks
Linda Bennett (Easton, Kansas) – 191 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Kansas City, Kansas) – 2 weeks
Alexis Stensland (Kansas City, Kansas)
Logan Kahler (Bloomington, Minnesota) – 146 weeks
Logan Kahler (Bloomington, Iowa)
Sarah Karber (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – 9 weeks
Bill Wentworth (Omaha, Nebraska) – 222 weeks
Joe Duff (League City, Texas) – 207 weeks
Submissions from 36 participants this week. A popular week! And that is pretty much our current max right now.
A huge thanks to everyone that included the location of their picture with their submission! And a huge thanks to everyone that submitted before Monday morning! Makes my job so much easier!
- Week 549 Submission Geography
- Arkansas
- Dominican Republic
- Florida
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Texas
- Year 13 Submission Geography (1st Submitter)
- Arkansas (Scott)
- California (Sabas)
- Colorado (Nathanial)
- Florida (Cathie)
- Illinois (Nathanial)
- Indiana (Nathanial)
- Iowa (Tamara)
- Kansas (Linda)
- Kentucky (Scott)
- Michigan (Mary)
- Minnesota (Sarah K.)
- Missouri (Scott)
- Nebraska (Bill)
- Nevada (Nathanial)
- New York (Sarah T.)
- Ohio (Nathanial)
- Pennsylvania (Sarah T.)
- Texas (Joe)
- Utah (Nathanial)
- West Virginia (Nathanial)
- Wisconsin (Dawn)
- Wyoming (Nathanial)
- Dominican Republic (Scott)
That is 22 states! 1 foreign country!
I’m definitely not tracking this, but I believe we had submissions from the following unique counties in Iowa this week: Black Hawk, Boone, Dallas, Delaware, Linn, Marshall, Polk, Pottawattamie, Story, and Warren.
There were no big milestones this week. But there were also no broken streaks! WooHoo!
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:
WEDNESDAY – SUGGESTED BY ALEXIS STENSLAND
WEDNESDAY! What a great theme for Year 13 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! And since everyone will have their picture taken on Wednesday, all the submissions should be in nice and early!
Here are the Year 13 rules!
- YEAR 13 – THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE RULES
- The picture must 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 and take pictures challenge!
- There is a limit of 2 submissions per person per theme. If you send me more than 2, I will use the first 2 that you submit. If you submit 2 pictures, make sure they are of different subjects.
- Deadline to submit your submission is 11 AM Central Time the following Monday. But that is a deadline. Pictures can be submitted as soon as you take them. In fact, pictures being submitted by Sunday night are GREATLY APPRECIATED!
- To be considered the photographer of an image, you have to be the one that clicks the shutter. If you hand your camera over to somebody else to take a picture of you, you are NOT the photographer of that image.
- No screen captures. This is a photography challenge. Not a “look at what I found on the internet” challenge.
- Please include the location of where the picture was taken with your submission. PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME ASK YOU!
- Please submit images that are OVER 1000 pixels at their largest side. DON’T OVERCROP! Look at this page on a computer, if your images are considerably smaller than everyone else’s pictures, then you are sending too small of images!
- ABSOLUTELY NO USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!
- How to Submit
- Email your submission to bennett@photography139.com.
- Text your submission to my Google Pixel 8 Pro. I’m not putting my phone # here. If you know, you know.
This is the 1st time that WEDNESDAY has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
I look forward to seeing your interpretation!
Until next Monday, may you run and not be weary. May your heart be filled with song. And may the love of God continue to give you hope and keep you strong.