TED Hey, Coach, you know how to barbecue? ALICE No. TED It’s great. Yeah, I don’t mean just tossing a burger on a grill. I mean real barbecue, you know? Low and slow, lots of smoke. Kind of cooking that makes your neighbor poke his head over the fence. [chuckles]… Read More »You’re Gonna Be Proud Of
REMINDER: NOT YET, BUT SOON IT WILL BE YOUR CHANCE TO SUGGEST THEMES FOR NEXT YEAR’S THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! YOU CAN DO THAT IN ONE WAY AND ONE WAY ONLY. BY LEAVING YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THE LAST THE WEEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE POST THAT PUBLISHES IN… Read More »WPC – WEEK 578 – COLORFUL
Time to clear out the backlog again. This is a collection of pictures I took between September and December of last year. They are decent pictures, but never really or never will fit into an “Artist’s Notebook” post. Some are from downtown Boone. Some are from Iowa State basketball. Some… Read More »A Victim of Laughing Chance
SWEET! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 28, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Mary Green – 1 week2-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week3-Becky Parmelee – 1 week4-Johnathan Stensland –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 577 – SWEET
FOR NEXT WEEK’S THEME THERE IS A SPECIAL RULE! THAT RULE IS REVEALED IN THE THEME REVEAL SECTION OF THIS POST. PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO READ THE SPECIAL RULE! NOISY! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of… Read More »WPC – WEEK 575 – NOISY
Today is 9/11. It has been 25 years since the terrorist attack on our country. For those of us who lived through it, it was one of the strangest and most horrific days in our lifetime. One of those days where I can remember about everything about the day. And… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Walk of Shame
This is the final collection of images from Day 2 of my trip to Ireland with Andy. Last Friday we left off with pictures of people crossing the Carrick-a-Rede Bridge. We will start right up in the same place. This made me miss the old swinging bridge in McHose Park.… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Conclusion
PARK! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! I can’t wait to see how many different parks are represented! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, August 24, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Sara Lockner – 1… Read More »WPC – WEEK 572 – PARK
Last Friday when we left off we had just crossed the Carrick-a-Rede bridge over to Carrick-a-Rede Island. Here are the pictures: Ireland is just so amazingly beautiful! These steps are much scarier than the bridge, by a long shot! Only one more collection of pictures from Day 2 in Ireland… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Carrick-a-Rede Bridge
MEANING OF LIFE! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, August 17, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Becky Parmelee – 1 week*2-Alexis Stensland – 1 week3-Michelle Haupt – 2 weeks4-Suzie… Read More »WPC – WEEK 571 – MEANING OF LIFE
By the time this publishes, I will have my entries for the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon in my possession. So I can reveal what pictures I entered this year. Here they are: Selected for Display Not selected for Display Selected for Display Not Selected for Display Next year I… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 2 Snaps
Back in January I attended a pro democracy rally in Ames with Jen. This was shortly after ICE agents had murdered Renee Nicole Good, mother of three and poet in the streets of Minneapolis. Here are some pictures from the rally: Here is a list of people that have been… Read More »Ice Off Our Streets
Our last stop up on the North Atlantic Coast before heading for our hotel was Carrick-a-Rede. This is a place that is most famous for a rope bridge that is suspended over the Atlantic Ocean. Here is some information about it from the National Trust website: The famous Carrick-a-Rede rope… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Carrick-a-Rede
Before I post the final images from Pufferbilly Days last year. Here is a reminder about this year’s Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest: The Annual Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest registration form is now ready for people to download. The process is a little bit different this year. Photographers have to submit… Read More »Art in the Park Photo Contest
Time to clean out a bit more of the backlog. This is a collection of pictures from late June to early July. These pictures I liked, but they never quite fit into any previous entries. A lot of macro pictures and pictures of a rainbow and of a party. Here… Read More »I Lay My Head on the Railroad Tracks
I have two final collections of pictures from last year’s Pufferbilly Days celebration left to share. The first collection is general Art in the Park images. I spend all day at Art in the Park as I have to watch over the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest photos. But because I… Read More »Art in the Park – 2025
Last February I made a trip into Reiman Gardens to see another stinky flower. This one named “Smelly Roll” is not as large as “Stink Floyd”. But it still had a pretty terrible odor. I also ducked into the butterfly garden and took a couple of pictures of some beautiful… Read More »Somebody Save Me
Can you believe that this is the 6,000th 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 6,000
Last Wednesday I shared half the ANIMALS alternate images I took last November on a swing through McHose Park, Big Creek State Park, Jester Park, Saylorville Lake, and Ledges State Park. This collection will include the images that I took at Jester Park and at the Saylorville Spillway. The first… Read More »Isn’t it Something?
Back in November I did a little bit of a loop around some central Iowa parks looking for animals to photograph for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme ANIMALS. I took Bokeh to the dog park. But after taking her home I went to Big Creek State Park, Jester Park,… Read More »Trust in Me and Fall as Well
On Day 2 in Ireland we got up bright and early and hit the road for Northern Ireland. It was about a 3 hour drive from Dublin to our first stop: The Giant’s Causeway. There were a handful of must see things for me on our trip. The Giant’s Causeway… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Road to Giant’s Causeway
