Today is Nate’s birthday, so happy birthday Nate! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you want it to be! +++++++ I did have submissions from one person come in a tad bit late for PARK. Normally, I would tell that person to pound sand. You were late, there… Read More »Rodan139: Boxholm
I should start this entry by hoping everybody had a good Memorial Day! I know, I shared that exact same picture on Saturday. But I like it and it seems to fit Memorial Day. I’d like to take this little piece of this website to share the poem “In Flanders… Read More »WPC – WEEK 402 – PARK
Today is Colleen’s birthday, so happy birthday Colleen! I hope it is as magical as you want it to be! +++++++ On the health spectrum, this post is about a food item that couldn’t be more on the opposite end of the “healthy eating” spectrum than a tenderloin if it… Read More »Salad Shooting: Ames Field Work
Today is Jason’s birthday. Happy birthday Jason! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Time to clean up the backlog. These images are from September that never quite fit into any previous posts. Some are alternates for THE WEEKLYPHOTO CHALLENGE. Another is a… Read More »And You Left Me There Cryin’ Wonderin’ What I Did Wrong
Today is Kalista’s birthday, so happy birthday Kalista! Hope your day is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ We begin where we left off last Friday. Kim, Lowell, Tony, and I were hanging out by The Bean after having supper at Giordano’s. The Bean is one of… Read More »The Windy City: Day 1C
Today is the birthday of somebody very important! You all know who it is! Happy birthday Steph! I hope your birthday is everything you want it to be! It has been way too long since the last time I saw Steph. That is probably mostly my fault. +++++++ There’s a… Read More »The Things I Regret
Since my trip to Chicago I know I have missed celebrating a few birthdays on this website, but the bleeding stops today. Happy birthday to my awesome sister-in-law and fellow Brandi Carlile fan Becca! I hope you have a birthday that is as tremendous as you are! Lots of Brandi… Read More »Muscatine County Aux. – Vol. 5
I need to start today by wishing Faust a happy birthday. Happy birthday Faust! I hope your birthday is filled with lots of good food. I’m not sure I even remember the last time I saw Faust in person. There is a rift between us ever since he did the… Read More »Rise Again
Today is Easter, so happy Easter! Happy Easter! Rather than trying to write something about Easter, I thought I would just borrow a devotional written by the Bishop of the Iowa Methodist churches about fish. In Death, Shedding Life By Bishop Kennetha Bigham-Tsai Episcopal Leader, Iowa Annual Conference of the… Read More »The Infamous Tenderloin Tripleheader
I need to start the day off by wishing Andree a happy birthday. Happy birthday Andree! I hope your birthday is filled with joy, or at least as much joy as one can feel when they are in Houston, Texas. +++++++ Yesterday was the end of the college basketball season,… Read More »Rodan139: Pilot Mound State Forest
I need to start today by wishing my Aunt Linda a happy birthday. Happy birthday Aunt Linda! I hope your birthday is filled with as much joy and happiness as you can handle! +++++++ Last Sunday I went down to the Kansas City with Teresa to watch the Big 12… Read More »Loyal Forever True
I need to start today by wishing Carla a happy birthday. Happy birthday Carla! I hope your birthday is as full of as much joy as you can handle! +++++++ I also need to wish Monica a happy birthday. Happy birthday Monica! I also hope your birthday is as full… Read More »Clayton County Aux. – Vol. 6
I need to start off this post by wishing Jason Baier a happy birthday. Happy birthday Baier: I hope your birthday has all the joy, happiness, and bears doing cocaine you could ever want! +++++++ I also need to wish Dawn a happy birthday. Happy birthday Dawn! I just hope… Read More »I Knew from the Start this is Exactly How You’d Leave
I need to start today by wishing Nora a happy birthday, so happy birthday Nora! I hope your birthday is filled with lots of candy and cake and ice cream! If not, I will buy you so much ice cream next time I see you. +++++++ Time to start sharing… Read More »Viva Las Vegas: Day 1A
I need to start today’s post by wishing Laura a happy birthday. Happy birthday Laura! For most people I wish them a birthday full of joy. For Laura, I just hope she got some rest. +++++++ Time once again to share a collection of pictures from my photo shoot with… Read More »Fran & Pepper 2022 – Vol. 3
I need to start the day by wishing Andy a happy birthday. Happy birthday Andy! I hope your birthday is filled with all the joy you can handle! +++++++ I spent almost all of last week in Las Vegas working at the Computer Mine Convention. I didn’t get to see… Read More »Viva Las Vegas: Cell Phone Pictures
I need to start off by wishing Micky a happy birthday. Happy birthday Micky!! I hope your birthday was filled with as much joy and happiness and you could handle. +++++++ It is time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. Time to share more pictures from the photo shoot with Fran… Read More »Fran & Pepper 2022 – Vol. 2
Need to start this post by wishing a Happy Valentine’s Day to all who celebrate. It is the one true holiday, that has yet to be adulterated by crass commercialism. Happy Valentine’s Day I wish I could buy you all cookies, but settle for this picture of a cookie and… Read More »Rodan139: Lower Ledges
Hammering away at the backlog. This is a collection of pictures I took in April that never really had a place in previous “An Artist’s Notebook” post. Some of these pictures were taken for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, but not used. Some are from Easter. Enjoy! Still a few more… Read More »I Read All of Your Self-Help Books
I need to start this post by wishing Bill a happy birthday… Happy birthday Bill! I hope your birthday is as full of all the joy that you can handle! +++++++ Time to share another collection of images I took when Teresa, Carla, and I went to Pella, Oskaloosa, and… Read More »Pella After Dark
I need to start today off by wishing Jim a happy birthday! Happy birthday Jim! I hope it is filled with all the joy that you desire! +++++++ It is the last Monday of the month, so it is a good time revisit the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE FAQ: FREQUENTLY… Read More »WPC – WEEK 385 – SILENCE