Time to share another collection of images from my trip to Scott County to harvest their town signs. Most of these pictures are also taken in Le Claire and this collection ends in Davenport. It includes a brief stop I made at Antique Archaeology. The store made famous by the… Read More »Scott County Aux. – Vol. 3
NOTES: 1 – SOME OF THE SUBMISSIONS ARE STARTING TO COME IN VERY SMALL. WATCH THE SIZE OF THE IMAGES YOU SEND IN. IDEALLY THEY SHOULD BE AT LEAST 1,000 PIXELS. SMALLER IMAGES MIGHT LOOK GOOD ON YOUR PHONE SCREEN, BUT DON’T LOOK GOOD ON A COMPUTER MONITOR. 2 –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 420 – ARCHITECTURE
We’ve come to the end of the black & white week. Time to share the black & white pictures I took last Sunday. Some of these pictures are from wandering around my yard. Some are from the Howard Family Photo Shoot. Some are from the Octagon Art Festival. This might… Read More »Now I Don’t Want Your Sympathy
Today is Elizabeth’s birthday, so I have to wish her a happy birthday! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you can handle! Filled with breakfast burritos without hashbrowns and/or Happy Joe’s Pizza! +++++++ Today I’m going to share a collection of images I took last Friday for last… Read More »I’d Say You Broke My Heart
This collection of alternate images for last week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE will include pictures I took on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Most of them I took on my lunch break from the computer mine on Wednesday. I went to downtown Ames to talk to Derrick… Read More »About Someone Who Loved You More
Time to start firing away on the 2023 backlog. This is a collection of pictures I took in January that really didn’t fit into any other posts. Some were pictures of my beard before I shaved. Some are from Madrid. Some are of elk in Jester Park. Some might be… Read More »As the Girls You Had Before
Back in early May Teresa, Carla, and I loaded up in the car and trucked to What Cheer for one of their flea markets. It is one of (maybe the) the largest flea markets in Iowa. I’ve never been to a bigger one. They hold it 3 times a year… Read More »What Cheer Flea Market – 2023
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… Read More »Scott County Aux. – Vol. 2
SKY! A great theme, but was it the limit for the amount of people that would participate this week? You will have to keep scrolling to find out: As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 4, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses): 1-Suzie… Read More »WPC – WEEK 418 – SKY
This is the final collection of images from the trip I took to Clear Lake to Teresa to see the Color the Wind Festival. I can only reiterate that is pretty sweet and definitely worth checking out if you ever get the chance. A good chance that I’ll go check… Read More »Color the Wind – Four
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… Read More »Scott County Aux. – Vol. 1
I recently too Rodan139 out for a flight to capture a picture of this year’s parking space paintings in the Boone High School parking lot. I think there are some good ones there this year. It makes me wonder how I would have painted my parking space if they did… Read More »Rodan139: BHS Parking Lot
Time for another collection of pictures I took when I went to the Color the Wind Festival in Clear Lake, Iowa back in February. I’ve never been much of a kite guy, but seeing some of these kites make me wish I was a kite guy. But I don’t want… Read More »Color the Wind – Three
A couple of months back Jesse and I went to the Des Moines Arts Festival. We consumed art, drink, food, and ice cream. If you’ve never been to the Des Moines Art Festival is is a hard recommend for me. UNLESS… you don’t like art or music or food. And… Read More »Food Truckin’: Des Moines Art Festival Field Work
Time to share a fourth collection of found art from Boone or near Boone that I’m calling THE BOONE ART CENTER PROJECT. Most of these pictures were taken east of Boone or in Boone. One is taken south of Boone. Maybe my favorite collection yet! Not sure when I will… Read More »Boone Art Center Gallery Four
Time for a second collection of images from the Color the Wind Festival in Clear Lake that I attended with Teresa. Despite the cold it was a pretty amazing experience. There is a fair chance I will go back again this year. See what new crazy and amazing kites people… Read More »Color the Wind – Two
Time once again to share some auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Dubuque County. Last time we left off I was sharing pictures from the Fenelon Place Elevator. Here is some more information on the “world’s shortest and steepest railway” (https://www.fenelonplaceelevator.com/): Fenelon Place Elevator Company 512… Read More »Dubuque County Aux. – Vol. 3
Back in June I got a surprise day off from work. They had re-shuffled PTO and suddenly I either had to take a day off or I was going to max out on PTO and therefore lose PTO. Yeah, I don’t play that game. On my surprise day off I… Read More »Donut O’Clock – Jefferson Field Work
On my list of things I wanted to do this year was hit the Color the Wind Festival in Clear Lake. Teresa and I went to it back in February and it was as amazing as I imagined. It is cold and I highly recommend getting spikes (which I didn’t… Read More »Color the Wind – One
Continuing on with the auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs in Dubuque County. All of these pictures were taken in Dubuque which is by far my favorite river town in Iowa. Maybe I should say river city. Fun fact: Mason City is actually the River City from… Read More »Dubuque County Aux. – Vol. 2
I had forgotten that I had went back to Madrid after RAGBRAI had left their town and took a picture of the art that Madrid put on their streets to greet the RAGBRAI riders. I will get more into what Madrid and other towns did for RAGBRAI when I get… Read More »Rodan139: Madrid RAGBRAI Art