Vest came through with some late submissions this week for CALM: Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest A Mike Vest B Next week’s theme is as easy as it gets: FACE A look back at last year’s submissions: FACE Good luck, for what it is worth.
This also seems to be a pretty random collection of photos. Some of these pictures were taken by Teresa. These pictures come from: Backup/Old My Pictures/New Photos Sadly My Photoshop Skills Haven’t Improved This is the 1st picture I ever had accepted to the State Fair. This autographed picture was… Read More »The Archives: Edition Twenty-Six
Seems like most of my folders have a subfolder named New Folder. This New Folder contains some pretty random pictures. Some of these were taken by Carla. This week’s folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/New Folder Next week’s folder will be: Backup/Old My Pictures/New Photos
There are 3 very special people that were born on July 12 and they are each worthy of their own individual birthday photo tribute. So I will start from youngest and go to oldest. Here is my photo birthday tribute to Logan:
A couple weeks back I went to watch Logan run track. Here are some pictures of that: Next week’s random pictures will be of Elainie’s graduation.
These pictures come from the following folder: Backup/Old My Pictures/Family/2004 McHose I think these pictures are fairly self explanatory. IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST Next… Read More »The Archives: Edition Fourteen
These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Family/2004 B&W One of the things I take from these pictures is that I have progressed in my knowledge of lighting quite a bit. Plus I owned a pretty terrible scanner. IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE… Read More »The Archives: Edition Thirteen
These pictures are from: backup/Old My Pictures/2005 Calendar I’m pretty sure these are the files from the 2nd year of the calendar, although it is possible that it was the 3rd or 1st year of the calendar. My records on such things are spotty at best. In the early days… Read More »The Archives: Edition Two
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 after a number of Americans were murdered by the military during the Pullman Strike. After the massacre, President Grover Cleveland made reconciliation with unions a top political priority. Making Labor Day a national holiday was his form of reconciliation. I celebrated Grover… Read More »CLU’s Holiday
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” -Abe Lemons Sunday was my Mom’s retirement party. Here are a few pictures: There are more pictures from the party in the Mom’s Retirement Party Album.
Happy Birthday Logan! Happy Birthday Derrick! This Journal Entry also marks a milestone for Derrick. He has become the 4th person to reach triple digits in Journal Entries about them. However, I promised 3 Happy Birthdays…. Happy Birthday Jill!
For reasons that are slightly inexplicable to me, I ended up in Beaver, Iowa yesterday morning. I’ve always felt that Beaver is a town that looks like it “walked” out of a horror movie. For this reason I once (years and years ago) took a series of pictures called “The… Read More »Welcome to Beaver, Iowa
I spent a good portion of Sunday wandering Reiman Garens with Mom, Grandma, Teresa and Logan. Don’t believe me? Here is photographic evidence: I learned plenty about gnomes. I might just have to invest in a gnome someday, but the gigantic toad in the Reiman Gardens gift shop might be… Read More »Reiman Gardens
I had my, what could theoretically become, annual Birthday Barbecue on Saturday. I would like to thank all of the people that attended and made the evening special: Bardole, Shannon Bennett, Charlotte Cousin, Amy Daniel, Jeffrey Degeneffe, Austin Degeneffe, Melissa Degeneffe, Scott Dill, Colby Dill, Dan Dill, DJ Gorshe, Derrick… Read More »A Small, Intimate Gathering
I broke Day 9 into two post because of the large amount of pictures, if you recall. You are about to see the rest of those pictures. After all the flowers were planted, we all went our separate ways to wash up. Then the family reunited at the Stensland home… Read More »Vacation Day 9B – Mother’s Day Early
Last week’s Random Weekly Photo Experiment Theme was PLANTS. It is exciting to have Julie Johnson as a first time contributor! Here are the submissions: IMAGE LOST Julie Johnson IMAGE LOST Dawn Krause IMAGE LOST Jesse Howard Mike Vest Mike Vest Christopher D. Bennett Shannon Bardole’s Artistic Appreciation Selection of… Read More »RWPE #4 – Plants
The day before Halloween was a very special Friday Night Supper Club. It was special because I hosted it, The guest list was expanded, we had Casey’s taco pizza and Jay made the dessert. Why these special things occurred can be traced back to one thing. At that FNSC I… Read More »The Jupiter Chronicles
Rarely when I publish pictures do I explain the thought process, the technical information or the inspiration. If somebody is confused by a picture or intrigued by a picture I want them to come to their own conclusions. I feel by telling people too much about a picture, it cheapens… Read More »Coltrane’s 1st Wife’s Middle Name
My mom doesn’t own a computer or even know how to use one, so I had to bring her over to the Honest Abe office to have her look over the pictures for her to pick one. “Pardon and Sanctify Me” I actually thought that she would pick this one.… Read More »Charlotte Bennett (Mom)
On Saturday, after going to the gym, helping Becky move, having lunch at Papa Chubby’s, touring Andree’s new digs but before going to Jeff’s birthday barbecue, I went down to check out Midnight Madness. On my way from the car to the event, I took these pictures: Once I got… Read More »Yet There is Method In It
