“DOWN GOES NATURE! DOWN GOES NATURE! DOWN GOES NATURE!” -The voice of Howard Cosell inside my head At exactly 10 PM on July 29. 2010, I popped the top on two bottles of Virgil’s Micro-brewed Root Beer and Dawn and I celebrated the end of Hedgegeddon. We had just dumped… Read More »Megiddo
Last Wednesday I had my annual meal with Mark. He was back in the States for a few weeks and will be returning to Taiwan soon to begin his new post over there. One of the peculiar imbecilities of this world is that for the last 3 years Mark has… Read More »Group Photos
Here are some pictures from a couple of celebrations that I attended a long while ago, but never quite found the time to post: Johnathan’s Graduation Open House Shannon Birthday Campout
The submissions for last week’s theme DEPTH OF FIELD: Christopher D. Bennett Becky Perkovich Dawn Krause Julie Johnson Mike Vest Remember that the theme for this week is: REFLECTIONS I will repeat that I think that this might be my favorite theme of the 52 programmed into the Random Theme… Read More »RWPE #29 – Depth of Field
2/6 This is a 6 (in reality a 7 part project but shhhh….. both of you that know the endgame) part project. In case you have forgotten: Part 1 More pictures from The 2/6 Photo Session: > Part 3/6 is scheduled to be published on September 17. I am headed… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 27
Since today is/was an extremely big day for the person that gave me the name “The Incidental Gardener”, I thought I would share a few more things from the files of The Incidental Gardener. For FNSC last week Carrie, Jason and I helped Nader move some of the hundreds of… Read More »Dr. The Incidental Gardener
Last week’s submissions for CALM: Carla Stensland Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest The Random Generator has been randomizing and randomizing and finally it has generated the theme for this week: DEPTH OF FIELD This is a slightly more technical theme than most of the themes. Here is a… Read More »RWPE #28 – Calm
The latest from Mark’s mission work in Taiwan. On a personal note, Mark is back in the United States for a few weeks and we will be having our annual meal in the next couple of weeks. There will hopefully be a in focus picture of us on that night… Read More »The Taiwan Times – June 2010
The submissions for last week’s theme COMMUNICATION are in: Justin Whitaker of American Buddhist Perspective Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey Mike Vest Christopher D. Bennett The Random Generator has been fired up and it has spit out this week’s theme: CALM I would think that would… Read More »RWPE #27 – Communication
Happy Birthday Logan! Happy Birthday Derrick! This Journal Entry also marks a milestone for Derrick. He has become the 4th person to reach triple digits in Journal Entries about them. However, I promised 3 Happy Birthdays…. Happy Birthday Jill!
The Glow that Illumines I took this series of pictures after Todd and Peggy’s wedding with Sara insisting I don’t do anything dangerous or illegal. Here are more pictures that aren’t dangerous or illegal: I will have to revisit this concept with somebody that cares less about my safety and… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 25
Small people talk about other people. Average people talk about things. Great people talk about ideas. When I first began my sentence with the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire, there was a ludicrous sign posted in the crew room that had this observation written on it. I’m not… Read More »The Dumbest Thing Shannon Bardole has Ever Done
We’ve officially reached the halfway point of the Random Weekly Photo Experiment. I think that the holiday weekend took its toll on submissions. There are only 3 for this week: Dawn Krause Julie Johnson Christopher D. Bennett Michael Vest Dawn’s Weekly Poem A Random Chat Revisited Shopping at the market… Read More »RWPE #26 – Market
Every 100 or so posts, I like to make a list of the most popular pictures on this blog. Here is the list of the 10 most popular photos in the Artistic Gallery. 1. Outburst of the Soul 2. Self-Portrait 3. Jen Relaxing Between Sets 4. Grizzly McAlpine 5. Rebecca… Read More »Post No. 850
I am thinking of adding a weekly segment to this journal where lesser gardeners can ask me questions about how I became such a super badass gardener and I would sprinkle my nuggets of wisdom on them. If you have any questions, leave them in the Comments section of this… Read More »The Incidental Gardener Files
A collection of unrelated photos and stories… Bill’s Return Bill returned to Boone briefly on Saturday. A few pictures from our time together. At FNSC Willy agreed to attempt to eat ice cream on 100 straight days. At first he balked at attempting such a thing, but the more he… Read More »Unaffiliated Triad
The submissions for last week’s theme – STILL LIFE: Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest Becky Perkovich A Becky Perkovich B Dawn’s Weekly Poem: Still Life In this still lifeNo one to understandIn this still lifeNo one to hold your hand In this still lifeWe walk the road aloneIn… Read More »RWPE #25 – Still Life
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” -William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) With all due respect to Shakespeare, this line from Julius Caesar has always bothered me. It has always bothered me because I don’t think that it is true. In fact,… Read More »Memory is Private Literature
COLORFUL did light the imaginations of several people. Here are this week’s submissions: Christopher D. Bennett Dawn Krause of Impassioned Versifier Debra Krause Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey Justin Whitaker of American Buddhist Perspective Mike Vest of Waxen Media Dawn’s Poem Colorful Brighter thoughts fill the… Read More »RWPE #24 – Colorful