This is a reminder that at this point you have 1 hour to get your picks in for my NCAA Tournament Pool. Click on the link below to get started: Roundball Oracles – Year 16 Good luck! +++++++ I need to wish my Aunt Linda a happy birthday today. Happy… Read More »Jasper County Auxiliary Images
A couple weekends ago I hit the open road to harvest the town signs of Franklin County that I was missing. There are 10 towns in Franklin County and 2 Census Designated Places. Here are some facts about Franklin County: + The population is 10,680. + The county seat is… Read More »Town Sign Project: Franklin County
Buckle up, this one could be a long post. I need to start by wishing Dawn a happy birthday. Happy birthday Dawn! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ I also need to wish a happy birthday to Baier. Happy birthday Baier! I… Read More »Wright County Auxiliary Images
A couple weekends ago I was able to hit the open road and harvest the town signs of Audubon County. There probably won’t be an easier county to harvest than Audubon County. There are only 5 towns and almost all of those are on Highway 71. Here are some facts… Read More »Town Sign Project: Audubon County
I need to start today by wishing Andy a happy birthday. Happy birthday Andy! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Last weekend I got to get out and harvest more town signs. This time I hit up Guthrie County. Here are some… Read More »Town Sign Project: Guthrie County
This entry is a collection of images from when I cruised around Marshall County harvesting their town signs. I started in Melbourne and ended in Marshalltown. The weather was kind of cruddy on that day, but I still got to see and photograph some real interesting things. Have a look:… Read More »Marshall County Auxiliary Images
Last weekend the weather finally cooperated enough for me to get out on the open road and doing some good old fashioned town sign harvesting. On Saturday. The weather immediately went back to being terrible on Sunday. But on Saturday, it didn’t snow and the temperature was above -30 degrees… Read More »Town Sign Project: Hardin County
This is a clearinghouse post. Grouping together some small collections of photos that might not be large enough to stand on their own. Plus getting multiple folders “finished off” and filed away to their forever homes. These pictures aren’t pandemic related, but they did occur in a pandemic. Like every… Read More »A Pandemic Menagerie
When I went out to harvest the town signs of Carroll County and Crawford County, I did both counties in one swoop. I didn’t actually need many signs from either county, so I was about to pick up most of them going south through both counties along 141 and then… Read More »Carroll County and Crawford County Auxiliary Images
I need to start today’s post by wishing Bill a happy birthday. Happy birthday Bill! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ I’m combining the auxiliary images from the town sign harvesting trips I made to Dallas County and Polk County to harvest… Read More »Dallas County and Polk County Auxiliary Images
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
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
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
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
There were a literal ton of images in the folder 2010-06-05. Nearly 700. So adding the pictures that belonged in the gallery to the gallery, was no small feat. Now, don’t worry, I’m not going to post all of those images. It would be well over 100. That being said,… Read More »2010-06-05 Part 2
I need to start by wishing everybody a Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Many of us (me included) aren’t having our typical Christmas, or even the Christmas that they remotely wanted. Remember it is okay to feel a mixture of feelings today, because this isn’t the Christmas you wanted. Maybe it… Read More »Merry Christmas – 2020
63! 63! 63 straight weeks of double digit submissions! I was a little worried about FACELESS PORTRAIT, but I had double digit submissions before I even rolled of the couch this morning. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 274 – FACELESS PORTRAIT
There was a very large collection of images in the folder 2010-05-24. Most of them are flower pictures. Some taken from my yard. Others taken from Reiman Gardens. I’ll just get to it, because there is a ton of photos here: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery,… Read More »2010-05-24
I need to start by announcing that my church is still having our free Thanksgiving Meal this year. This year it is a drive-thru meal. If that sounds like something that you could need or want, here is some information: First United Methodist’s Annual FREE THANKSGIVING MEAL You are invited… Read More »Matthew 25:35
Yes! Yes! 59 times yes! ART was the 59th straight theme to illicit double digit submissions! But you didn’t come to hear me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Tamara Peterson Tamara Peterson Christopher D. Bennett Cathie Raley Kim Barker Elizabeth Nordeen Elizabeth Nordeen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 270 – ART
Back in August there was a small birthday party for Kanoa. I took a few pictures, but mostly just pictures of Kanoa eating his cake. Which he apparently enjoyed very much. Here are some pictures: I did get to see Kanoa again on Saturday, but that is a topic for… Read More »Happy Birthday Kanoa!
