When me and my chums were in high school, we would spend a few choice nights of the Spring, Summer and Fall in my Mom’s backyard playing Homerun Derby with a big red bat and a plastic baseball. Homerun Derby was a double elimination tournament that consisted of a series… Read More »Home Run Derby: The Next Generation
Here are a few images from an afternoon I spent on the backroads with Jay. Milton Lott’s Grave Jay Closed Damage A Closer Inspection Two Bridges The New and The Old I know it is but a pipe dream, but I do dream that some day they make the old… Read More »Wild Goose Chase
Happy Birthday Mr. Faust! Faust will be missed at the Spring Game on Saturday, but hopefully I will get to visit him in Mankato in 2 weeks.
The submissions for last week’s theme: Symmetry and Patterns. Becky Perkovich Michael Vest Christopher D. Bennett Dawn Krause Julie Johnson Dawn’s Weekly Poem Symmetry and Patterns See the parallels in our lives Lines drawn in to the sands of time Running forever side by side Just like a perfect worded… Read More »RWPE #14 – Symmetry and Patterns
Perfectly Themselves I Perfectly Themselves II These pictures would end up in The Fail Trunk in my basement if they were any more than just digital images. However, because of the failure of these images, I have figured out the error of my ways and now know how to light… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 12
I got a few late submissions for Macro that I thought that I would share. The first picture is from Justin Whitaker. Otherwise known as Julie Johnson’s boyfriend and author of the American Buddhist Perspective. Justin Whitaker Carla actually sent in 4 pictures, but she sent them to the wrong… Read More »The Virtue of the Bored
Here are a few extra, bonus images from the Lone Wolf photo shoot with Sara. Sara was full of creative ideas on this night and she helped improvise when I realized that I had left a key part of my tripod at home, making the tripod essentially useless and making… Read More »Lone Wolf Extras
“This is the end, Beautiful friend, This is the end, Of our elaborate plans, the end, Of everything that stands, the end, No safety or surprise, the end.” – The Doors (The End) Another college basketball season has come to an end. It is a sad, sad day. At least… Read More »3Peat
The submissions for last week’s theme Macro: Julie Johnson Dawn Krause Michael Vest Christopher D. Bennett Dawn’s Poetry Submission Macro With tendency to over think And analyze the motives We watch our world slowly shrink And stress hit like locomotives The Random Theme Generator has been spun and it spit… Read More »RWPE #13 – Macro
No. 1 This picture is the first in a 6 part photo series. I don’t know if this was the exact pose that I wanted, but it is kind of a Gorshe family trait where they do something I really like in the test shots. A point that I will… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 11
“You see the smile that’s on my mouth It’s hiding the words that don’t come out And all of my friends who think that I’m blessed They don’t know my head is a mess. No, they don’t know who I really am And they don’t know what I’ve been through… Read More »The Story
I did the publicity stills for the latest community theater production by ACTORS. This is what they look like: Shannon Bardole – Props Troy Rutter – Director Odie John Lofton – Light Tech Jane Johnson – “Dolly” Jennifer Nieland – “Nedra” John VanWaes – “Steve” Janette Woodard – Costumes Melissa… Read More »ACTORS
The Taiwan Times By Mark Wolfram Reporting on God’s Mission in Taiwan Next Year Greetings to all of you from Taiwan. First, the big news is that I have decided to return to Taiwan for another year of service. God continues to bless my time here, and I look forward… Read More »The Taiwan Times – March 2010
The submissions for last week were a little bit slim, but I think there are some good submissions in there: Dawn Krause Michael Vest Christopher D. Bennett Dawn’s Poem Signs Follow the signs of your heart They tell me that way’s better Tissues falling to the floor It seems the… Read More »RWPE #12 – Signs
I indicated in the first Personal Photo Project entry that the weekly Personal Photo Project wouldn’t always be designing and taking a new picture. This is one of those occasions. This time the project was cutting and mounting and hanging Psyched Up (Not Out) on the wall. Psyched Up (Not… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 10
I cited a FNSC ending in My Great Shame a few journal entries back, but I never indicated what was My Great Shame. A few people already know about My Great Shame because I exposed those people to it. I’m not sure if I exposed them because I wanted them… Read More »My Great Shame
When I recategorized the entries in this journal, there is one category that was sorely aching to be added, but I decided not add it because I was a tad bit fearful. You? The Great Christopher D. Bennett was fearful? I know it seems an unlikely turn of events, but… Read More »Fount
A little while back, I took a few images for a journal article on the Computer Mine’s lastest product. Here are a couple of the images: My Favorite Image The Image Used The Product More of the Product I guess it would be the first time in my current job… Read More »Computerminetography
This week we have a first time contributor in my sister Carla. She did break the one and only rule of RWPE (the picture has to be taken the week of the project) but I’ll let it slide since it was her birthday last week. This week’s submissions: Michael Vest… Read More »RWPE #11 – Motion
This has been a week where I have unexpectedly walked down family history lane. That continued this morning when I went over to assist in the installation of my Mom’s new fridge. She showed me a newspaper clipping from the February 6 edition of the Boone News Republican. The clipping… Read More »Family History Week
In the last couple of weeks I have been making huge organizational changes to my basement. However, other parts of the house have also seen wholesale changes. I recently changed out the white table my Aunt Linda gave me for a 10 foot long workbench to act as the entertainment… Read More »A Clockwork Couch