This is a reminder that at this point you have 24 hours to get your picks in for my NCAA Tournament Pool. Click on the link below to get started: Roundball Oracles – Year 16 Good luck! Note: As of this writing, Iowa State hasn’t made it official that T.J.… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – More Churches
I did want to make a personal announcement of minor consequence. Today, my credit card balance is officially back to zero. I didn’t have much credit card balance, but it hadn’t been back down to zero for a few years. Here is the happy moment: File Photo So the only… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Interurban Depot
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
I need to start today by wishing Laura a happy birthday. Happy birthday Laura! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ This set of old-timey postcards I recreated for THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT, are of the First Presbyterian Church. Their website has a… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Presbyterian Church
I need to start today by wishing Micky a happy birthday. Happy birthday Micky! Every once in awhile I will let people behind the curtain at Photography 139. Very few people and not very often. But Micky is the reason (more or less) for my using the term “harvest” so… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – More Downtown Boone
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
If your church is like my church and hasn’t had a worship service in months, it is possible that the fact that today is Ash Wednesday may have snuck up on you. My church is actually having its first worship service tonight since October. However, if you can’t get to… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Sacred Heart
The subject this week’s THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT are a couple of former Boone Motels. The Shangri-La Motel and the Topper Motel. There is another defunct motel in Boone that is behind the Barkley House on Mamie Eisenhower between Boone and Story Streets. I don’t know the name of that… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Motels
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
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
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
The subject for this week’s POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT is the Boone County Courthouse. Here is some information on the Boone County Courthouse from the Boone County Government website: Boone County was organized in February of 1847. It was named for Nathan Boone, the youngest son of Daniel Boone, who had… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Courthouse
Today I’m going to share a set of postcards of the Boone Post Office I recreated. A government building that wasn’t attacked by domestic terrorists who have brainwashed by a misinformation ecosystem that can’t handle that their messiah, got his ass handed to him in an election. Despite the fact… Read More »POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT – POST OFFICE
I recently drove around Marshall County to harvest all the town signs there that I am missing. One of the things I like to do is visit any historical markers that are on my journey. If I know of a particularly interesting (or in this case tragic) historical marker that… Read More »Town Sign Project: Marshall County
Here we are, the last day of 2020. That means it is time for me to share the December image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar. Because of the pandemic, I got to deliver very few calendars in person this year. I think the only reactions that I got to… Read More »POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT – SOME CHURCHES
Happy Christmas Eve everybody! This is always my favorite worship service of the year. However, it is just one of the many things taken away by a horribly mismanaged pandemic. But I thought I would share a picture from the 2016 service as hopefully a reminder of what is coming… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Boone FUMC
Today’s THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT subject is the Champlin Memorial Masonic Temple. It now houses the Boone Historical Center. I didn’t look to deep into the history of this building because I watch a lot of History Channel and I don’t want to get on the bad side of the… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Masonic Temple
A couple weeks back I made a trip around Hamilton County to grab a few town signs I was missing in the county. There were a few interesting discoveries. Hamilton is the 4th county that I’ve knocked off. Purple = Completed Hopefully when we get through the pandemic, I can… Read More »Town Sign Project: Hamilton County
The most recent subject of THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT is the Ericson Public Library. There are actually quite a few old timey postcards out there for Boone’s library. I guess that isn’t much of a surprise, because it is a beautiful building. What did surprise me that there isn’t that… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Ericson Public Library