Today is Carla’s birthday, so I need to wish her a happy birthday! Happy birthday! I hope your birthday is free from fire alarms today and maybe involves some camping or camping planning! +++++++ Today is also Monica’s birthday, so I also need to wish her a happy birthday! Happy… Read More »Iowa State Fair – Day 3 – Beta
Time to share the rest of the images I took while walking around Slater during RAGBRAI. Slater really did an amazing job of hosting the tens of thousands of cyclists that came through their town. Next up will be the beginning of the collection of images I took when RAGBRAI… Read More »RAGBRAI – SLATER – II
On the first day that I followed RAGBRAI, the final stop was Ames. Ames was an overnight town. I went to downtown Ames to check out their festivities and met up with the Gorshes. Here are some pictures: Honestly, the Ames RAGBRAI experience was a little bit of a disappointment.… Read More »RAGBRAI – Ames
Today is a rare double holiday. It is both Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. As always, if you are not out romancing it up tonight, I invite you to come to the Boone First United Methodist Church for our Ash Wednesday service. Full disclosure, I won’t be there. I am… Read More »RAGBRAI – LUTHER
When Jesse and I went down to Memphis to watch the embarrassing debacle that was the Liberty Bowl we made sure to eat a bunch of delicious food. Fortunately the Pastor at my church lived in Memphis for several years and he gave us several solid recommendations on places to… Read More »Liberty Bowl Road Trip Grub
Here is the balance of images from the quick road trip I took with Jesse up to see Bethany, Nora, and the musical JAGGED LITTLE PILL. Some of these are at that art park. The others are from around the Orpheum. Do you think this was left by Cindee and… Read More »Jagged Little Road Trip II
A couple Sundays back my church honored our Building Engineer. He retired after 43 years with our church. Which is amazing when you think about it. Yesterday was my 18th anniversary with the computer mine. I can’t imagine working another 18 years there. Let alone another 25 years. Wow! I… Read More »And You’ll Be the One Who’s Crying
I am the opposite of what you would call a fan of parades. They don’t usually entertain me much. They are one of those things that is way more fun to be in than to watch. Like playing baseball versus watching baseball. Like lighting off fireworks versus watching fireworks. But… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Parade One
Time to share the June image of the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. It is a picture of mums I took at Iowa State University. JUNE I chose this picture for June because I like to use a black and white image for June. TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony ILCE-7M2 DATE: September… Read More »Goodbye 2023
Time to share the May image for the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. It is a picture taken off of I-80 near the exit that takes you to the Amana Colonies: MAY I chose this picture for May because I usually put a picture in May that is a picture that… Read More »Liberty Bowl Trip Cell Phone Pictures
Time to share the April image for the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. It is a picture of tulips taken in Pella: APRIL I chose this tulips picture for April cause April is really the beginning of flowertography season. And tulips are really the first flowers of the year that I… Read More »Stanhope Watermelon Day – IV
Sunday was the Christmas Pageant at Boone First United Methodist Church. I think it was the first one that we’ve had since the pandemic, but I could be wrong about that. The play the kids put on was call “The Three Wise Guys” and told the story of how a… Read More »Boone FUMC Christmas Pageant
Time to share the balance of pictures I took from my trip to the Des Moines Arts Festival with Jesse: The last few pictures were taken at Gray’s Lake after we had left the Arts Festival. Where we look at God’s art… nature!
Here is the final collection of images of my trip to the Orange City Tulip Festival with Jesse and Nader for my birthday road trip. We start this collection where the last collection left off. Jesse shopping in an Orange City market: While this is the final collection of Orange… Read More »Orange City Tulip Festival IV
Time to share another collection of images from my trip to Scott County to harvest their town signs. Most of these pictures are also taken in Le Claire and this collection ends in Davenport. It includes a brief stop I made at Antique Archaeology. The store made famous by the… Read More »Scott County Aux. – Vol. 3
We’ve come to the end of the black & white week. Time to share the black & white pictures I took last Sunday. Some of these pictures are from wandering around my yard. Some are from the Howard Family Photo Shoot. Some are from the Octagon Art Festival. This might… Read More »Now I Don’t Want Your Sympathy
I took a ton of pictures on Saturday that are alternates for the BLACK & WHITE theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. So buckle up, this is going to be a long post. Even though most of these images can be broken into two different events. 1. Trip to Jester… Read More »But You Broke Much More Than That
Back in early May Teresa, Carla, and I loaded up in the car and trucked to What Cheer for one of their flea markets. It is one of (maybe the) the largest flea markets in Iowa. I’ve never been to a bigger one. They hold it 3 times a year… Read More »What Cheer Flea Market – 2023
One, two, three, four… Out in the middle of nowhere With nothing much else to do Oh, the night brought us together And I lent my heart to you Maybe you were running way from something Without so much as a plan Not a living soul to guide you Jesus… Read More »Fulton County Jane Doe
If I don’t owe you a favor, you don’t know me I don’t believe we’ve ever even met If there’s a God in heaven you can show me Then I guess I should admit I lost the bet There are moments I could hold you forever There are moments that… Read More »Whatever You Do
Time for the second collection of images from Day 3 of my work trip to Chicago. The final day of any real photography… for the most part. The rest of the days were filled with work… boring work. When we left off, Lowell was feeding birds in a park street… Read More »THE WINDY CITY: DAY 3B