Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
Normally I’ve been sharing family portrait type pictures on Sunday, but I wasn’t all that productive this weekend. I don’t know if it was because I’m not sure it got over -1 all weekend. Or I was just having a lazy weekend. But I never go into my mode. So… Read More »Welcome to Boone
Most of the pictures in the folder 2010-06-25 are of lilies. Lots of lilies. But also of a deer. Then one of a clothespin. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory: PERSONAL… Read More »2010-06-25
Today feels like a good day to share the images I took while I was prowling around Webster County harvesting their town signs with Mom and Teresa several weeks ago. I truly love this sign so much! I do love small town water towers. Stumpy’s Finished Top 5 Tenderloins in… Read More »Webster County Auxiliary Images
My most recent creations for the POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT all involve looks at intersections in Downtown Boone. There is no modern interpretation for these because I’m not sure there is a modern interpretation for intersections for Downtown Boone. There probably is, but I’ll save that until I complete all the… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Downtown Boone
A few weeks back, I loaded up into the car with my Mom and we drove around the enormous county that is Jasper County harvesting the signs that I was missing. It was a good trip that include the traditional breakfast from Hardee’s. If the TOWN SIGN PROJECT has a… Read More »Town Sign Project: Jasper County
I decided last year to bring back THE SELFIE PROJECT for 2021. If you don’t recall, that is where I take a picture of myself everyday for the entire year. It is a little different in a pandemic because for the first month, there isn’t a single picture with anybody… Read More »Selfie Project – January 2021
BLACK! Another theme. Another Monday. Another week of double digit submissions! 70 weeks in a row to be exact! WooHoo! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! Jesse Howard Kim Barker Jesse Howard Kio Dettman Carla… Read More »WPC – WEEK 281 – BLACK
This is the final collection of pictures from when I went to Manhattan to take pictures of the triplets near their second birthday. Chaos! That is the only way to really describe what a photo session with 3 two year-olds with their own agenda. I should have brought a photo… Read More »Miller Time – 2020 – Vol. 4
There were mostly a lot of flower pictures in the folder 2010-06-20. A few lilies. A few coneflowers. A few other flowers. Plus, a few pictures of some members of my church picking cherries from my cherry trees. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able… Read More »2010-06-20
Today I’m sharing images I took while tooling around Hamilton County harvesting signs for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. There aren’t many of them because I actually had already harvested most Hamilton County town signs before this little road trip. Might be wonder why I took this picture of this bench… Read More »Hamilton County Auxiliary Images
Today I’d like to share a collection of images I took on a day the last time I took a “vacation” back in September. Most of these pictures are from my yard, but a few are from a little cruise I took around rural Boone County. Even though we had… Read More »Vacation – Misc.
This round of old-timey postcard recreations for THE POST CARD RECREATION PROJECT don’t really have a history lesson to go with them. They are simply a “bird’s eye view” of downtown Boone. Have a look: Bird’s Eye View of Boone, Iowa – Original Bird’s Eye View of Boone, Iowa –… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Bird’s Eye View
I need to start the day by wising Anders a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ A few weeks back I loaded up into the car with my Mom and Teresa as they joined me as I… Read More »Town Sign Project: Wright County
HOBBIES! People seem to love them and it is no surprise that HOBBIES was the 69th theme in a row to crack double digit submissions! It did it easy as well. In fact, this might be the record for most submissions ever in one week. The problem is, I don’t… Read More »WPC – WEEK 280 – HOBBIES
I thought I would have posted the second and last collection of pictures of Amanda and Logan well before, but life happens. So here is the rest of the images of Amanda and Logan before she gave birth to Dahlia shortly thereafter: I look forward to a day when we… Read More »Amanda and Logan – Pre-Dahlia No. 2
There weren’t actually a ton of pictures in either the folder 2010-06-14 or 2010-06-17, so I went ahead an combined them. Most are just taken around my yard, around the time that I was trying to tear the hedge out in my backyard. A terrible and long process. But so… Read More »2010-06-14 & 2010-06-17
I’d like to just start with saying how completely impressed I was with Amanda Gorman, this nation’s first ever youth poet laureate and the poem she read at the inauguration on Wednesday. Wow! Goosebumps. I was one the people that rushed to Amazon and pre-ordered her book and made it… Read More »Loess Hills Road Trip
Today we are going to focus on the birthplace of (for now) the most famous person to ever come from Boone. The former First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Her birthplace is one of only two birthplaces of First Ladies that have been made historic sites. The other is the birthplace… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Mamie Doud Eisenhower Birthplace
A couple weeks back, on the same day that I harvested all the town signs I was missing for Carroll County, I continued west and also harvested all the signs I was missing in Crawford County. That ended up being less than I expected. I didn’t find anything of real… Read More »Town Sign Project: Crawford County
August 9, 2006. That was the date where I first took keyboard in hand and began typing out the blog that I entitled “An Artist’s Notebook”. I entitled that first post “First Journal Entry”. The categories for that first post were “Blogging”, “Contests”, “Jay”, and “Sara”. This is the first… Read More »Post #4,000
I need to start by noting that today is the day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. I’d like to share a teaching on The Good Samaritan from the last speech that King ever gave as my small part of honoring his legacy today: Let us develop… Read More »WPC – WEEK 279 – COMMERCIAL