It is the first day of April… which means that I should share all the March selfies for THE SELFIE PROJECT. I didn’t travel very much in March. I’d hoped to travel more, but both of Iowa State’s basketball teams had disappointing ends to their seasons. So I mostly just… Read More »Selfie Project – March 2025
It is a good time to share the February images from THE SELFI PROJECT. I think it was a pretty good month. Like always I get to the end of February and think, “I really didn’t do all that much this month.” But then I start going through the selfies… Read More »Selfie Project – February 2025
Today is Ander’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is filled with all the robots and all the monsters and all the robot monsters you can handle! +++++++ This Sunday’s food adventure involves the burger that won Best Burger… Read More »Burgertime: Ankeny Field Work
Today’s is Lowell’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Lowell! If you don’t know, he isn’t the super tall guy and he isn’t Kim. I simply hope your birthday is without any health emergencies! +++++++ Today is also Sabas’ birthday! So I need to… Read More »New Orleans Day 2: River Walk
Can you believe that this is the 5,250th entry in the blog known as “An Artist’s Notebook”? Every 250 posts or so I like to take a moment to reflect on where this post has been and post a lot of meaningless stats. As always on these posts, I like… Read More »Post 5,250
Today is Anders’ birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDERS! I hope your birthday is filled with all the British and 70s science fiction you can handle! +++++++ Time to share the final collection of images from the Pufferbilly Days Parade and the final… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Parade Three
Today is Lowell’s birthday so I need to wish him a happy birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOWELL! If you don’t know, Lowell is not Kim and is not the tall guy. It is one of my most profoundest birthday wishes that today is a good day. +++++++ This is one of… Read More »Calendar Favorites
Time to clean out the April backlog. Lots of pictures that didn’t quite make their way into previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entries. Including some that were alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE and some that were taken in Jester Park and some at the end of a flowertography road trip.… Read More »‘Cause Someday I’ll Be Everything to Somebody Else
I need to start out by thanking everyone that wished me a happy birthday. I believe this is a comprehensive list of everybody that wished me a happy birthday. + Kim and also thank you for buying me birthday Buffalo Chicken tots and the card. + Ron, Clevenger, Jordan, and… Read More »The Windy City: Day 1B
I need to begin by wishing Anders a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is sufficient in every way you want! +++++++ Heart breaks, mistakes Catching up to me in old ways I know of hard days Had my share of lonely nights It’s only you that… Read More »Oh Dear
Happy New Year to those of you sheeple that follow the Gregorian Calendar. I for one, moved to Unix time years ago. So if I have a birthday party this year (Sara wants me to have one, but I doubt it happens) the invites will list the time of the… Read More »Goodbye 2022.
On Thursday I completed another month of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. For June, there was only one prompt. Grateful. Everyday, post a picture of something that makes you grateful. What I decided to do was every day take a picture with somebody that I am grateful… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – June 2022
This year, in addition to THE SELFIE PROJECT, I’ve decided to participate in the popular Instagram Photo of a Day Project run by Fat Mum lim. Each day there is a different photo prompt. I’ve created a separate Instagram account to post these pictures, so if you are Instagram, you… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – January 2022
I don’t usually run THE SELFIE PROJECT in back to back years, but since I took a break from it for a bit in 2021, I decided to make an exception and bring it back in 2022. Before getting into my favorite images from January of 2022, I want to… Read More »Selfie Project – January 2022
I’ve decided to do the SELFIE PROJECT in 2022. I usually don’t do this in back to back years, but I thought I would give it a shot. Here are my favorite SELFIE PROJECT images from December: December 1 December 2 December 3 December 4 December 9 December 11 December… Read More »Selfie Project – December
On Saturday night I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. It probably wasn’t the most exciting month, but I think we did some good work here now and then. Here are my favorites from July: July 2, 2021 July 3, 2021 July 4, 2021 July 5, 2021 July… Read More »Selfie Project – July 2021
I need to start the day by wising Anders a happy birthday. Happy birthday Anders! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ A few weeks back I loaded up into the car with my Mom and Teresa as they joined me as I… Read More »Town Sign Project: Wright County
A few months back, I took a dead zinnia down to my basement, lit it and then lit it up. I believe Jesse and Anders were standing by as potential firefighters. Even though, they didn’t understand why I was starting even the smallest fire, inside my house. Here are the… Read More »Light it Up!
Let’s face it. 2020 has been a terrible year. I could spend hours and hours polishing this turd, but a turd is still a turd. I basically only see 2 other people on a regular basis right now. Willy and I haven’t held a Friday Night Supper Club since March… Read More »Blessings 2020
I need to start today’s post by wishing Alisa a happy birthday. Happy birthday Alisa! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ My friend Anders is a very talented writer and an incredible film researcher. However, the reason why we are such friends… Read More »Space Jockey
The tree-shrub-bush that is right in front of my front door recently was the home to a robin’s nest. I managed to take a few pictures of the transformation from eggs, to nestling to a fledgling that hangs out in my cherry tree in the backyard. The picture from egg… Read More »Holy Astringent Plum-like Fruit!