Happy Easter! The Easter devotional is the preaching notes from UMC Discipleship. I’m not sure who wrote them: There are, of course, lots of directions to take when preaching on Easter. No doubt you’ve done quite a few. As discussed in the Planning Notes, this is a day for tradition.… Read More »The Baughers 2021 – Volume 3
Several months back, I got together with the Baughers to do some family pictures for them. This is the second collection of images from the photo shoot: Next Sunday’s formal photo shoot collection will be another collection from Jayton’s Senior Pictures.
This Formal Portrait Sunday comes from a photo shoot I did with the Stenslands. It was a pretty brief photo shoot, so I can include this in just one journal entry. Here are some of my favorites from the day: Next Sunday’s formal portrait collection will return to the photo… Read More »The Stenslands – 2021
The pictures in the folders 2011-05-01, 2011-05-09, and 2011-05-14 are mostly from a Mother’s Day celebration we held at my house. But there are also pictures there from the RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT (now known as THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE) and Logan running track. By adding these pictures to the… Read More »2011-05-01, 2011-05-09, and 2011-05-14
Looks like Sundays are going to be formal portrait time for a little bit. I haven’t shared really any formal portraits I took last year, so I better start doing that now. This collection is from pictures I took of Alexis’ family back in June. Carla was the baby wrangler… Read More »The Baughers 2021 – Volume 1
This year for our family Thanksgiving I wanted to attempt to make root beer. I had Glenn Peterson’s recipe in hand and I also fruitlessly pursued another recipe, but I’m not really sure how different root beer recipes can get. Glenn’s recipe was a little vague on a couple things,… Read More »Sneaky Snake Root Beer
Can you believe that this is the 4,250th post in this crazy little thing called “An Artist’s Notebook’. 4,250 posts! It has been 5,549 days since I took keyboard in hand on August 9, 2006 and typed these words: So here is the first journal entry. The name of that… Read More »Journal Entry #4,250
Here is the final collection of pictures from the Stenslands 2020 family photo shoot: These were the last pictures from 2020 that I had yet to share. I might start taking Sundays back off from “An Artist’s Notebook”, but I will need to take a look at where I stand… Read More »The Stenslands 2020 Gamma
Here is another collection of images from the Stenslands 2020 family photo shoot: There is one more collection of images from this photo shoot left to share!
Here is another collection of images from the 2020 Stensland Family Photo Shoot: There are a couple more collections from this photo shoot left to share.
There is a wide collection of images in the folder 2010-09-06. Some are of Jen and Derrick when she was pregnant with Evie. The others are from a Labor Day cookout I hosted at my house for the family. Also, some pictures of a toad I found in my backyard.… Read More »2010-09-06
Recently I’ve been working on an organizational project as I prepare to get rid of a bunch of things in Boone’s annual Citywide Cleanup in a couple of weeks. Part of this has been organizing every (almost) picture that I have entered in a photo contest, both physically in a… Read More »My (Sad) Photo Contest History – 1
This is the final collection of pictures I’m sharing from the photo shoot with Alexis shortly before she gave birth to Anela. However, she doesn’t appear in any of these pictures. These are all pictures of big brother Kanoa. I still have a collection of Anela pictures and several collections… Read More »Alexis Prego Cuatro
The folder 2010-08-23 is absolutely stuffed to the gills. There are so many images in there I almost considered breaking it up into a couple posts, but decided against it. There are pictures in there from a trip to the Iowa State Fair and pictures of Jen and Derrick when… Read More »2010-08-23
It has been over 2 months since I got back to this photo shoot with the Stenslands at the end of 2020. It was a real blessing to have gotten so many of these pictures taken with Mom. She originally was just tagging along and then she went home and… Read More »The Stenslands 2020 – Beta
Here is the third installment of pictures I took of Alexis when she was pregnant with Anela. Although, the grand majority of these pictures are of Kanoa sporting his big brother shirt! I still have one more collection of these photos to share.
I want to share some of the words people have share about Mom, starting with her obituary. Carla wrote the obituary and Teresa and I went over it. Obituary for Charlotte Ann Bennett Charlotte Ann Bennett September 26, 1942 – March 24, 2021 Charlotte Ann Bennett, 78, lifelong resident of… Read More »Mom’s Obituary
Here is the second collection of images I took of Anela from when she was 2 weeks old. I still have more Anela pictures to share.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I WROTE THIS POST BEFORE MY MOM PASSED AWAY, BUT I DON’T HAVE THE HEART TO CHANGE THE TEXT. The grand majority of pictures from the album are from my Mom’s Retirement Party. The other one if from Dickcissel. I haven’t looked at the pictures from the Retirement… Read More »2010-08-01
When we met with the funeral home to plan my Mom’s funeral, they told us to bring them some pictures so that they could put together a video to play in 3 places during her visitation. I asked how many pictures and they said around 35. I asked what if… Read More »Mom Video Pictures
For those of you that haven’t heard, my Mom passed away about 10 days ago. Because of that, I have not been in a state to reveal the submissions for LOVE on time or reveal the new theme for last week. Because of that, I don’t know how steady my… Read More »WPC – WEEK 289 – LOVE