Last Sunday, after an emotional church service, Teresa and I went to Luther because I was having a hankering for the tenderloin there and I badly need to get started on the Tenderloin Trail 2.0. As we approached the restaurant, it was clear that is was so packed that there… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Slater Field Work
At this time, BUSINESS doesn’t seem to be a popular theme. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Tamara Peterson Christopher D. Bennett Teresa Kahler Teresa Kahler Kim Barker Shannon Bardole-Foley Carla Stensland Micky Augustin Bill… Read More »WPC – WEEK 321 – BUSINESS
On Sunday I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. One thing that always happens when I look back at a month’s worth of pictures I’m always surprised at some of the things that all happened in the same month. That? That happened this month? I thought that was… Read More »Selfie Project – October
REMINDER!!! This week and next week are you chance to help mold the next 52 weeks for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. To do that leave suggestions for themes in the COMMENTS section of this here journal entry. There were some good suggestions last week and one truly terrible one. Terrible… Read More »WPC – WEEK 319 – GREEN
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
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
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
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
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
This Saturday from 8-12 we are going to have the final sale at my Mom’s house. There is still lots of glassware and collectibles for sale. A few tools. Many decorations. Maybe some furniture. Some other stuff will be added this week as well I’m sure. The address is 111… Read More »Painted Without Instruction – 2021
Despite it being Labor Day, there was still a decent, but not overwhelming number of submissions for ‘SCAPE. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Andy Sharp Andy Sharp Teresa Kahler Kim Barker Elizabeth Nordeen Jesse… Read More »WPC – WEEK 312 – ‘SCAPE
Yesterday I completed yet another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. I was surprised how packed a month it was. When I looked back at some of the images, I thought, “that happened in August? It feels like such a long time ago!” Here are my favorites from August: August… Read More »Selfie Project – August 2021
A few weeks back I cruised around Pocahontas County harvesting their town signs. Some of these I harvested on a trip to northwest Iowa with Teresa. The rest I harvested on a solo trip. Here are some facts about Pocahontas County: + Population is 7,078. It is the 93rd most… Read More »Town Sign Project: Pocahontas County
It doesn’t look like PEOPLE was a very popular theme. I mean, you PEOPLE must think that other PEOPLE suck. Which I guess is the smart bet. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Teresa Kahler… Read More »WPC – WEEK 311 – PEOPLE
I’m pretty sure that this is the most popular theme in the history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. 30 submissions! Wow! I’m glad to see so many people have people they consider FRIENDS or could at least find a group of somebody else’s FRIENDS to photograph or found something that… Read More »WPC – WEEK 310 – FRIENDS
The theme TOY really spoke to a ton of people this week. There were a bunch of submissions and I didn’t even send out any reminder texts this morning because I was dealing with wrapping up the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. My first one as a chair was some mixed… Read More »WPC – WEEK 308 – TOY
A few Saturdays back I cruised around Ida County with Teresa harvesting their town signs. There aren’t many. Ida County only has 5 towns. Ida County might be best known for the castle buildings in Ida Grove. Here are some facts about Ida County: + Population is 6,901 (2019 estimate)… Read More »Town Sign Project: Ida County
At least a few people were able to figure out what PATHS they are walking for the theme of PATHS. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions. Tamara Peterson Christopher D. Bennett Teresa Kahler Teresa Kahler… Read More »WPC – WEEK 307 – PATHS