Today, a little after 8 AM, I dropped Naima off at the vet for surgery. She has a fatty deposit growing under her right shoulder that is getting pretty gigantic. Hopefully by the time this publishes, she will be out of surgery and I’ll be getting the phone call that… Read More »Be True
A couple weeks back, I spent several hours, off an on in my Grandma’s garage going through things that the family was getting rid of. One of the fortunate things about Grandma’s house is that it is staying in the family. Therefore, this isn’t quite the rush to get rid… Read More »A Garden of Love
You are probably wondering why this post didn’t come out at 12:01 PM, on the nose. The reason is simple, my website broke overnight. It didn’t exactly break, but it stopped being able to produce new information. The Photography 139 is build on love, passion, photography, God, and support for… Read More »WPC – WEEK 246 – FRIENDS
On our Sunday worship service (on KWBG) we honored our graduating seniors with a video that is a compilation of the the seniors discussing their future and their favorite aspects of Boone First United Methodist Church. I acted as something of a clearinghouse for the video. I collected all the… Read More »Senior Sunday – Garrett – Volume 3
I need to start this post by wishing the happiest of birthdays to my bro Nate. Happy birthday Nate! Truth is, I just hope Nate gets a good nap on his birthday! +++++++ The pictures in the folder 2009-11-23 are from a trip I made with the family to Kansas… Read More »2009-11-23
Day, I think 45 of working from home. Not sure I’ve discovered any other positives of working from home, this week. But… I finally started working on the basement. I did take some before pictures and I will post them when the project is done. I do know that I’m… Read More »The Baugher Wedding – Three
I need to start by wishing my mother-in-law Colleen a happy birthday. Happy birthday Colleen! I hope your birthday was amazing! All the best people were born in May! Can you imagine being born in a different month? +++++++ This is the final collection of images that were triggered by… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 10
I only have one image to share today. It might not seem like much of an image at first glance. It is just a wet gazania. But this is a focus stacked image. It took 63 pictures just to combine all of them into this one image. I repeat, it… Read More »#63
I need to start out by wishing my brother-in-law the happiest of birthdays! Happy birthday Jason! I almost starting to think that these birthday tributes need to be more than 5 pictures! I hope it was the happiest of birthday Jason! +++++++ It is time to unveil the second collection… Read More »The Baugher Wedding – Two
I should start by saying Happy birthday to Kalista. So, happy birthday Kalista! I hope it is a very happy birthday indeed! +++++++ It is time for the 9th and nearly last installment of pictures that were triggered by Elainie’s homecoming! I do believe that when you are from Iowa… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 9
I need to start by wishing everybody a happy Memorial Day! Today is a unique Memorial Day, as we honor both our military personnel that have died in military service and the over 100,000 Americans that have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, we will be in a better place… Read More »WPC – WEEK 245 – SELF-PORTRAIT
There were only a couple of pictures in the folder 2009-11-19, so I decided to also post some pictures from the folder 2009-11-21. The picture from the first album is of Becca and her beau at the time. There is one picture of a Window Project I made for Salon… Read More »2009-11-19 + 2009-11-21
I don’t even know how many work days from home it is now. I think it is 40. Who knows any more. But I did discover a new positive this week. That the new positive. I like being able to use my lunch hour to mow. I’m not a big… Read More »The Baugher Wedding – One
This collection of images that were triggered by Elainie’s homecoming back in September is a bit smaller. This is the balance of the pictures that were taken at Ledges. However, it isn’t the end of the pictures. Not quite yet! More Stenslands to come!
It is time for another stirring collection of images that were triggered by Elainie coming home last September. All of these images are of Elainie and Sabas and were taken in Ledges. Still lots of Stensland pictures to come!
We have hit another milestone in the history of “An Artist’s Notebook”. Post #3751. I would normally make these statistical look back at the past type posts on even numbers, but I felt you guys were probably chomping at the bit to see the entries for RULE OF THIRDS. This… Read More »An Artist’s Notebook Post #3751
33 straight weeks of double digit submissions! There won’t be an easier theme than RULE OF THIRDS, so I’m not surprised! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions! Andy Sharp Teresa Kahler Kim Barker Elizabeth Nordeen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 244 – RULE OF THIRDS
I need to start this post by pointing out that today is a very important day. Today is Stephanie’s birthday! Happy birthday Stephanie! I hope your birthday is safe and amazing! +++++++ I’m going to be away from computers for much of today, so I won’t be able to reveal… Read More »WEEK 245 THEME REVEAL
This is normally the time when I reflect on how my work from home week went this week. But I don’t really have anything to share this week. The main bonus I got from working from home this week is that I had a couple customers I had to work… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 6
Here in the 5th set of pictures triggered into existence by Elainie’s homecoming last September, Elainie makes a reappearance. But there are also quite a few pictures of Alexis, Kupono, and Kanoa. Of course, plenty of Sabas in this collection as well! You’d think that we were halfway through all… Read More »Elainie Homecoming Ch. 5
Another collection of pictures that were triggered by Elainie coming home in September, but don’t include a single picture of Elainie. Here is the fourth collection from that set of photos. Exclusively of Alexis, Kupono, and a very young Kanoa. So many Stensland pictures left in the hopper. So many!!