Here is Part 4 of the story of my Grandma Bennett’s brief third marriage. M. Handschin Funeral Rites Here Jan. 25th Native of Boone Died in Sioux City Formerly Employed by North Wester R. R. Relatives, neighbors and friends paid their final respects to the memory of the late Maurice… Read More »(I’m So) Afraid Of Losing You Again
Here is Part 3 of the brief third marriage of my Grandma Bennett. This article is in particularly bad shape, so there is some guessing with what it says. Handschin, Formerly of Boone, Dies After Being Shot, Sioux city. A (man) shot by a jealous woman at Sioux City the… Read More »Tama County Auxiliary Images – 1
While we have been working on sorting things at my Mom’s house, we recently have come through a whole pile of genealogy stuff. While sorting through it, I thought I would share a bit of family history from my Dad’s side of the family. It is a story I’ve known,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 305 – MUSIC
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers I took in my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on April 20, 2021. Mostly tulips, but a few other flowers in there as well. Still, so many flower pictures to share.
Lots of people decided to make HISTORY by taking a HISTORY image this week. I understand that it can be a bit difficult for people that aren’t like me. You see, it is easy for me cause I’m making HISTORY every day. But you didn’t come here to listen to… Read More »WPC – WEEK 304 – HISTORY
Here is another collection of pictures of flowers I took in my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on April 18, 2021. Mostly tulips. I still have so many flower pictures to share!
Despite the holiday weekend, there was pretty good participation in this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. At least a few of you got out there and had an ADVENTURE last week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see… Read More »WPC – WEEK 303 – ADVENTURE
This is the third and final collection of images I took while harvesting the town signs of Madison and Union County. Almost all these pictures were taken in Union County, but a few were taken in Adair County and Clarke County. This was the last town sign harvesting trip I… Read More »Madison County and Union County Auxiliary Images – 3
There were hardly any pictures in the folder 2010-09-29 so I decided to combine it with 2010-09-30. This collection includes a picture of a buckeye. I really wish I remember why I took this buckeye picture. I never shared it on this here blog. Buckeyes have a deeper family connection… Read More »2010-09-29 & 2010-09-30
On Wednesday night I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. I don’t know that is was a particularly exciting month, but I think there are some good pictures in the collection. Here are some of my favorites from June: June 1, 2021 June 2, 2021 June 3, 2021… Read More »Selfie Project – June 2021
Here is another collection of flower pictures I took in my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on April 10, 2021. There is also a picture of Mocha looking out Mom’s living room window and a picture of a Tin Man sculpture that my Grandpa Paris made. Many more flower… Read More »Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger
This is the second collection of “other” images I took while harvesting the town signs of Madison and Union County. This was the last town sign harvesting trip I ever took with my Mom. All of the pictures in this collection were taken in Madison County. St. Charles, East Peru,… Read More »Madison County and Union County Auxiliary Images – 2
The theme of COMMUNICATION did not communicate to a tremendous amount of people. That is fine. Maybe this week’s theme will be more popular. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Elizabeth Nordeen Andy Sharp Andy… Read More »WPC – WEEK 302 – COMMUNICATION
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
There were large collections of images in the folders 2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, or 2010-09-27 so I combined them into one post. These include pictures of an Iowa State-Kansas State football game, pictures taken shortly after Evie was born, and pictures of Elainie playing football. By adding these pictures to the Photography… Read More »2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, and 2010-09-27
This collection of images is cleaning up some random photos from January and February. The highlight and the majority of these images are taken from when Logan brought Dahlia over see Mom and Teresa. That was a good day! +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »Congregation
Here is another collection of flower pictures I took in my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on April 14. There are tulips, daffodils, and a peony in this collection. So many more flower picture photos to share!
This is the first collection of other images I took while harvesting the town signs of Madison and Union County. This was the last one of these trips I took with my Mom. It also includes the last picture I ever took with her. It was at the John Wayne… Read More »Madison County and Union County Auxiliary Images – 1
It appears that WHITE was not a super popular theme. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Shannon Bardole-Foley Christopher D. Bennett Micky Augustin Angie DeWaard Kim Barker Angie DeWaard Kio Dettman Kio Dettman Cathie Raley… Read More »WPC – WEEK 301 – WHITE
This is the final collection of pictures from the photo shoot I had with Anela a couple weeks after she was born. I’m sure I will have so many more Anela pictures to share in the coming years!
Today I’m sharing a collection I took over a couple days back in February or Naima and of an icicle. Some people say I don’t take enough pictures of Naima. Naima is not one of those people. She is a dog. +++++++ This your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY… Read More »Assemblage