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 another collection of pictures of flowers from my Mom’s yard. There is also a picture of some baby robins from a nest that was built in a hanging basket from her front porch. These pictures were taken on June 8. There are plenty more flower pictures still to… Read More »Someone Loves You Honey
Need to start today by wishing everybody a Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day and remember F*CK Christopher Columbus. For raping 9 and 10 year old girls. For the murder of 8 million Arawahs, while enslaving them. For cannibalism. For feeding babies to dogs. For using biological weapons to kill 97 million… Read More »WPC – WEEK 317 – TIME
This is the final collection of auxiliary images I took while on a road trip with Carla to Butler County to harvest their town signs. Clarksville If you aren’t down with Mollie B, you aren’t down with me. Allison Greene Aredale Bristow Butler Center Ackley I plan in great detail… Read More »BUTLER COUNTY AUXILIARY IMAGES VOL. 2
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers from my Mom’s yard. There are also a couple at the end that were taken in my yard. There is also a bonus picture of Naima thrown in. These pictures were taken on June 3 and June 7. There are plenty more… Read More »Mountains of Love
Although there isn’t really a youth group at the church right now, Andy was able to rustle a bunch of kids to help the Methodist Women collect items for their annual rummage sale and help tear things down after it was over. Other than an unfortunate run-in with a douchey… Read More »Methodist Women’s Rummage Sale
Despite it being late in the year and FLOWERs not necessarily being in abundance this time of year, FLOWER ended up fueling the creative fires of quite a few people. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the… Read More »WPC – WEEK 316 – FLOWER
A few weeks back I tooled around Butler County with Carla harvesting their town signs. I’ve already shared pictures from the beautiful garden in New Hartford. This is a collection of other images I took on the trip. I have so many questions. Aplington I have questions about the hours.… Read More »Butler County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
Yesterday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. I don’t know I did a lot in September, but I guess the pictures will tell the story. Here are my favorites from September: September 3 September 4 September 5 September 6 September 7 September 10 September 11 September 12… Read More »Selfie Project – September 2021
Here is another collection of pictures I took of flowers from my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on May 30, 2021. More flower pictures to share. Plenty more.
Several weeks back Carla and I cruised around Butler County harvesting their town signs. One of my favorite places we stopped was this cool garden/park in New Hartford. Of course, I took many flower pictures: I have many more pictures to share from Butler County.
DREAM JOB wasn’t an extremely popular theme. I guess people just have forgotten how to dream. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Elizabeth Nordeen Tamara Peterson Bill Wentworth Christopher D. Bennett Shannon Bardole-Foley Micky Augustin… Read More »WPC – WEEK 315 – DREAM JOB
Today is my Mom’s birthday. I considered writing about what an amazing person she was and how she was so good at being a Mom that it still makes it hard for me to relate to people who had subpar parents. It just doesn’t calculate in my head what it… Read More »Mom’s Birthday
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers from my Mom’s yard. These were taken on May 26, 2021. The last picture is of a robin’s nest that was built in a hanging flower basket on my Mom’s front porch.
A few weeks back I cruised around Cass County with Brandon and Logan harvesting the town signs of Cass County. We did a little more sightseeing in other counties than I normally do, so it was one of the rare trips where all the town signs are harvested were only… Read More »Town Sign Project: Cass County
WORK turned out to be a pretty popular theme. I knew many of you out there were hard WORKers! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Jesse Howard Micky Augustin Andy Sharp Bill Wentworth Carla Stensland… Read More »WPC – WEEK 314 – WORK
I found a few cool things while I was tooling around Sac County and Ida County. Including the birthplace of the great Andy Williams. A singer that everybody loves unequivocally. Here is the first collection of those images. Wall Lake Carnarvon Odebolt Ida Grove I have at least one more… Read More »Sac County and Ida County Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 I seem to have lost a ton of pictures. I’m grouping all the pictures that are in the folder 01JANUARY2011 together for this post: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following… Read More »01JANUARY2011
Today I’m just cleaning up a collection of a few odd pictures here and there taken in April and May. Some are pictures of tulips and there are a few pictures of Teresa’s new house. Feels good to get my folders cleaned up a little bit. +++++++ This is your… Read More »Neaten
Here is another collection of flowers from my Mom’s yard. These were taken on May 23, 2021. I still have more flower pictures to share.
Here are some pictures from yesterday: It was a disappointing effort by the Iowa State offense, but if they can right the ship, all their season goals are still on the table.