Teresa’s family usually hosts a Christmas tradition where they get together a few weeks before Christmas. I went over to it last year to take my BODY PART picture for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Also, to document the event on some level. Here are the pictures I took: This is… Read More »Bring Us a Figgy Pudding
It is the 3rd day of August. Seems like a good time to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from July. I travelled a bit in July. Completely for leisure. And that felt pretty great. Here are the July Selfies: July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5… Read More »Selfie Project – July 2026
Time to share the rest of my Halloween pictures from last year. These are all from Halloween Parade or from downtown Boone. What might be apparent in the pictures, but maybe isn’t readily apparent, it was COLD! Not as cold as it was for the lighted parade last year, which… Read More »Halloween 2025 – II
I took more Halloween related pictures than normal last year. In addition to the Trunk-or-Treat pictures I shared last Tuesday, I also took pictures of the pumpkins painted by the Youth Group, the trick-or-treaters that came to my house, and pictures at Boone’s first ever Halloween Parade. Here is the… Read More »Halloween 2025 – I
Last year the Boone First United Methodist Church took place in the annual Trunk-or-Treat festivity. It is a pretty big deal in Boone. Thousands and thousands kids pour into Boone’s downtown area and get so much candy. The lines are so long it take over an hour to make the… Read More »Trunk-or-Treat 2025
Today is Independence Day! Happy birthday America! Here on the 250th anniversary of the final text of the Declaration of Independence was approved, it seemed apropos to share a collection of firework pictures. The PGI Convention was in Boone last year. PGI stands for the Pyrotechnics Guild International. They put… Read More »PGI Fireworks – I
I always spend my 4th of July at the annual Degeneffe Independence Day Extravaganza. I go for the great company and the great food. But also at the end of the night there is a fireworks show that is probably pretty close to being on par with the show put… Read More »Fireneffeworks
Way back in November I shared pictures of Boone First United Methodist Church’s annual community Thanksgiving meal prep work and some pictures from the Photography 139 Aerial Team known as Rodan139. I intended to shortly thereafter share the regular ground images from the Thanksgiving meal. But I didn’t. Which brings… Read More »Boone FUMC Thanksgiving – 2025
I’m going to skip a food adventure today, even though I know you are all dying to know if I spent my entire per diem in America’s arm pit Orlando, Florida. But that will probably wait until next week. Or a couple of weeks. I’m still trying to pretend I… Read More »Mother’s Day
Happy Easter! Christ is risen! Happy Easter! When this publishes Easter will be almost over, so I hope it has been a wonderful day for you and yours. On these high holy days I do like to publish a devotional. I don’t write them, but maybe some day I will.… Read More »Happy Easter (2026)
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve kind of suspended wishing people happy birthday from this site for the time being at least. Except one exception. If that birthday is included in the physical copy of the Photography 139 calendar. There are a bunch of birthdays in the digital calendar. But only… Read More »Selfie Project – February 2026
Today is Valentine’s Day. So I need to wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day, whether they celebrate it or not! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!! I hope your Valentine’s Day was either as amazing as you wanted it to be or sucked way less than you thought it would! Today is Valentine’s… Read More »June Road Trip: Dirty Dodge
Merry Christmas everyone!! I honestly don’t think a better sermon on the meaning of Christmas has ever been given than the one given by Linus in the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. So I’ll just share that again. I will assume everyone in the sound of these words has seen “A… Read More »Merry Christmas!!!! (2025)
It is Christmas Eve!! Time to light our final virtual candle. The Christ Candle!! There is no script for this from Matt Rawle’s book. So this one I took from the UMC Discipleship website: We have heard the call to keep watch. But what are we keeping watch over? Maybe… Read More »Where Basic Human Rights Go to Die – I
A couple weeks back Boone held our annual Christmas Parade and town tree lighting event. It was about a week later than normal if memory serves and it ran into some terrible weather. On the day it was supposed to be we had a snowstorm. So it got moved back… Read More »Boone Christmas Parade – 2025
Last Sunday was the annual Christmas Pageant at Boone First United Methodist Church. It was great in all the ways that a Christmas Pageant should be great. Here are a few pictures: I already look forward to next year’s Christmas Pageant!
It is week 2 of Advent and I would once again like to light a virtual calendar and use the script for it from the book we are using for our Advent Season at Boone First United Methodist Church this year. The book is “The Redemption of Scrooge” by Matt… Read More »I Scream: Decorah Field Work
One of the little used benefits at the Computer Mine is that everybody gets 8 hours of VTO every year to use. I’m pretty sure next to nobody uses it, which is a shame. An extra day off. To do something fun? Why wouldn’t you do that? I guess some… Read More »Boone FUMC 2025 Thanksgiving Prep
It is something I’d like to say I do every year, but I don’t. But I’m going to try this year. And that thing is to light a candle every Sunday during Advent Season. A virtual candle. Yes, but still a candle. So this week we are lighting the Peace… Read More »Big Pizza Pie: Decorah Field Work
Thursday was the annual Boone First United Methodist Church’s Free Community Thanksgiving Meal. I’ll share final details later, but I do know that we served over 500 people in the drive-thru lane alone! I thought I would start by sharing a few drone photos I took of the event: I’ll… Read More »Rodan139: Boone FUMC Thanksgiving 2025
A reminder that if you are looking for a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, the Boone First United Methodist Church is hosting one. And it’s free! All the information you need to know is below: With turkey prices up 25% this year and the average Thanksgiving meal up 4.1%, there will… Read More »Baby, Time Meant Nothin’