Last Saturday was the annual Pufferbilly Days Parade. I was able to participate this year with Boone First United Methodist Church. I snapped a few pictures of the process. Have a looksie: Something I just noticed in the pictures. Whomever picked out the white flower to put in the stack… Read More »Parading with Boone FUMC
Day 4 of the CMC is kind of a brutal affair. It is a 12-14 hour day. First there is the convention itself. It is followed by a mandatory party which, well if you have to be paid to be there… you get the idea. The only time I was… Read More »Austin Day 4: Balloons
“I’m not a romantic, but even I concede that the heart does not exist solely for the purpose to pump blood.” Time for another collection of flowertography images. This collection was taken in my yard: Next Thursday’s flowertography session will also take place in my yard.
Back in January I took a few pictures of Bokeh running around after some snow and some pictures of my Nativity covered in snow. Here are those pictures: That dog sure loves the snow!
Pufferbilly Days is over and I can finally exhale. It was a lot of work for me and a ton of work for all the people that volunteered their time to help out. But that is a list for another time. This is a post where I share the winners… Read More »2025 Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Results
STATUE! What a great theme! But did enough people find something sedentary to make it a popular theme? As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 15, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Ben Baier – 1 week2-Suzie Brannen – 1 week3-Sarah Karber – 1 week4-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 2… Read More »WPC – WEEK 523 – STATUE
I took a lot of cell phone pictures on Day 2 of Ireland. So many, that I’m going to split them in 2. The first part will consist of cell phone pictures I took at Giant’s Causeway. One thing about Ireland is that every day I saw something that was… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Part 1
Thursdays are for flowers! This flowertography session took place in my yard. Have a peek: Next Thursday’s flowertography collection will also take place in my yard.
Going to wipe out the rest of the 2024 images (with the exception of the Howard Family Photo Shoot) in the next 2 days. These are a bunch of images that I liked, but never really found their way into a previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entry. They are all over… Read More »We Sat on Your Roof
DAMAGED! What a great theme! But did enough people find something roughed up to make it a popular theme? As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 8, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week*2-Mary Green – 1 week*3-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week4-Jesse Howard –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 522 – DAMAGED
Last Sunday we left off basically when I was getting ready to get off the plane. We will continue from there. The first day in Ireland. It was my first time really going through Customs in over 20 years. Getting into Ireland was pretty simple. They asked why we were… Read More »Ireland Day 1
Day 2 in Austin really was all work. I’m not even sure if I left the hotel the entire day. Which means I took hardly any pictures. But what I got I will share. Hope you like pictures of a hotel! Here they are: On Day 3 I was able… Read More »Austin Day 2: All Work and No Play
Iowa State had their first home football game of the season a couple of Saturdays back. Derrick punked out of going to the game so Alexis went in his stead. I took the camera around and took some pictures of the Spirit walk and the Steps Concert. Have a look:… Read More »Iowa State 55 South Dakota 7
MEANINGFUL! What a great theme! But did enough people find something with meaning in their lives to make it a popular theme? As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 1, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Willy McAlpine – 1 week2-Monica Jennings – 5 weeks3-Becky Parmelee – 5… Read More »WPC – WEEK 521 – MEANINGFUL
Today’s food adventure covers the travel day Andy and I had that began in Fort Dodge, Iowa and ended in Dublin, Ireland. I was going to do a thing where I calculated how much money I spent on food on this trip, but I didn’t do a very good job… Read More »Ireland – Travel Day
This is the final collection of images I took while walking around Austin with Lowell on a work trip there. When we concluded last Friday we were just getting ready to leave the Museum of the Weird. We will begin there and then take a walk down Austin’s famous Sixth… Read More »Austin Day 1: Sixth Street
It is time to once again to clean up some of the backlog. This is a collection of images that I like, but never really fit into a previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entry. Most of these images were alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are the pictures: It always… Read More »I’m a Weirdo
The second day of September! No better day to share the THE SELFIE PROJECT images from August. I managed to leave the state of Iowa in August. In fact August was an incredibly busy month. A month that I don’t think I will duplicate any time soon. I got to… Read More »Selfie Project – August 2025
CHARITY! What a great theme! But did enough people have it in their heart it to make it a popular theme? As of 12:01 PM on Monday, August 24, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Monica Jennings – 4 weeks2-Becky Parmelee – 4 weeks3-Suzie Brannen – 13 weeks4-Alexis… Read More »WPC – WEEK 520 – CHARITY
I said last Sunday that this week’s food adventure was going to be about eating next to a lake. But I’m actually going to push that food adventure off for several weeks. Probably a couple of months. This week’s food adventure is about Tall & Meaty’s day competing at the… Read More »Tall & Meaty: Iowa State Fair – 2025
Last time we left off with Day 1 of my Austin trip we were in the Museum of the Weird. This second collection will also take place entirely in the Museum of the Weird as well. A museum I visited with Lowell. Here is the second collection of images: There… Read More »Austin Day 1: More Weirdo