Last Friday we left off from my last trip to the State Fair with Teresa and Valerie looking at the baby animals. This collection will start with the baby animals and then wander all over the place. From food to the Agriculture Building to sewing competitions to Pioneer Hall. Here… Read More »ISF: 08/17/2025: Exhibits
Time for the second and final collection of images from the trip to Bluff Lake Catfish Farm. Last Tuesday we left off at the swinging bridge in Eden Valley Park. Here are the pictures: It was a fantastic trip and I’d like to return again this year, but it sounds… Read More »Bluff Lake Catfish Farm
Today is Memorial Day. The day we honor and mourn the military personnel that died while serving in the Armed Forces. Iowa Veterans Cemetery – Van Meter, Iowa Even now, from the peace and calm of a spring day in America’s heartland, we can imagine what it must have been… Read More »WPC – WEEK 558 – ABANDONED
Time for more from my super boring food “adventure” to lame Orlando, Florida. From this point on, I can’t say I had a single meal from outside the Hilton Orlando. Because there is literally nothing around the hotel besides the convention center and a collection of some of the worst… Read More »Orlando Work Trips – Days 3 & 4
Time to share the final collection of images from the No Kings pro democracy rally I attended at the Iowa State Capitol with Jesse back in October. Have a looksie: It was a great event filled with patriotic Americans wanting America to do better. Hopefully someday soon we stop circling… Read More »Immigrants Make America Great
This year I did senior pictures for two different pillars of our future. Thought today I would share a few images from Alexander’s photo shoot. Have a look: I’ll be very excited to see what the future holds for young Alexander! I have a feeling it is very bright!
Last August, Jay and Jesse and Willy and I loaded into the RAV4 and drove out east to check off an Iowa bucket list item for me. What was to visit and seasonal restaurant near Maquoketa Caves State Park that goes by the name of Bluff Lake Catfish Farm. It… Read More »Road to Bluff Lake Catfish Farm
SIGNS! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, May 11, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Brandon Kahler – 1 week2-Johnathan Stensland – 1 week3-Logan Kahler – 1 week4-Mary Green –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 557 – SIGNS
Time to start sharing my food adventure in awful Orlando, Florida. Only don’t get too glued to your seat. It is super boring, like Orlando itself. I basically never left the hotel (except to go to the convention center) because there was nothing to do anywhere near our hotel. Almost… Read More »Orlando Work Trip – Days 1 & 2
Time to share another collection of images from the No Kings pro democracy rally I attended at the Iowa State Capitol with Jesse back in October. Have a looksie: Still one more collection of images from this pro democracy rally left to share.
It is the 12th day of May. Seems like a good time to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from April. I travelled a bit in April. For work. But not to any place cool. But at least it was some travel. Here are the April Selfies: April 1 April… Read More »Selfie Project – April 2026
WARNING: Next Monday is Stephanie Kim’s birthday. I always take time to celebrate Stephanie’s birthday. So there is a good chance that I will be out celebrating and if that is the case, I will be too busy to send any form of reminders. You will have to be your own… Read More »WPC – WEEK 556 – AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
ART! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, April 27, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Suzie Brannen – 1 week2-Sara Lockner – 2 weeks3-Alexis Stensland – 3 weeks4-Becky Parmelee –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 555 – ART
After Russell and Andree and I left the College Basketball Experience we headed to Strouds for chicken. Which was the actual impetus for the trip. After the meal I took a few pictures from around the place and couple at a rest area on the way home. Here are those… Read More »Kansas City Road Trip: Strouds
When this post publishes I will be somewhere in the sky between Atlanta, Georgia and Des Moines, Iowa. While I will have a computer sitting at my feet, I will have spent the morning running around airports and haven’t had anything that resembles the time to put together a post… Read More »Week 556 Theme Reveal
This is a different sort of a food adventure. Rather than a new place that I was trying, this is the last time I had a well loved tenderloin. By the time this publishes, the proprietor of the best tenderloin in Boone will have shuttered their doors and gone the… Read More »Requiem for a Tenderloin
Before we get into the final collection of images from my day at the Iowa State Fair with Tall & Meaty, I need to acknowledge that today is International Workers Day. I normally might do a bigger write up on it and share a picture that I thought captured some… Read More »ISF: 08/12/2025 – Pioneer Hall
Back in July Russell, Andree, and your truly loaded into a Cadillac and headed south to Kansas City for some fried chicken. But we couldn’t just go for fried chicken and turnaround. So we went to the College Basketball Experience next to Hilton South as we are all major basketball… Read More »Kansas City Road Trip: CBE
WARNING: Next Monday I’ll be in a few airports or flying through the friendly skies (or whatever Delta’s slogan is) so don’t expect to anything resembling a reminder on Monday. You are going to have to be your own man or woman or person. As of 12:01 PM on Monday,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 554 – FLOWER
Time once again to share more pictures from my 2nd trip to the Iowa State Fair last year. The trip with the gents from Tall + Meaty. Last time we focused on turtle pictures. This time…. more turtle pictures! Here is the next collection: Still one more collection of pictures… Read More »ISF: 08/12/2025 – More Turtles
Last Tuesday I shared the first part of the collection of images from Jesse and I’s trip to Decorah to go to the only true pizza farm in Iowa. We will start where we left off last week at Dunnings’s Springs Park and quickly start sharing pictures from the pizza… Read More »Pizza Farm Road Trip: Luna Valley Farm