Turtle Thoughts are Turtle Special thanks should go to Dawn for loaning me this homeless turtle and to Shannon for acting as turtle wrangler on the inside photos of my stinky friend. More pictures from the Turtle Thoughts are Turtle Photo Sessions. My understanding is that this homeless turtle eventually… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #45
Here are a few pictures from trip to the Twin Cities a few weeks ago. These are almost all from a trip to the Sculpture Garden with Becca. More pictures to come…
Here are some pictures from my vacation. In particular, they day I spent with Mom. More pictures to come…
Self Propelled Flower Here are a few more images from the Self Propelled Flower photo sessions.
Inferiority Complex Here are more pictures from the day that I spent with a hibiscus, the Inferiority Complex alternates.
I think Jason Baier was one of the quickest to choose. He was very assertive when he chose the picture below: Open Mic Night I manipulated this picture with Photoshop quite a bit more than I normally manipulate pictures, but I’m at peace with it.
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 after a number of Americans were murdered by the military during the Pullman Strike. After the massacre, President Grover Cleveland made reconciliation with unions a top political priority. Making Labor Day a national holiday was his form of reconciliation. I celebrated Grover… Read More »CLU’s Holiday
Here are a few more pictures of my trip to the State Fair. Last year I had only 1 goal and that was to see The Blue Band. Instead of getting to see The Blue Band I was nearly killed on a midway ride and spent the rest of the… Read More »State Fair Trip 2 – Collection 2
The submissions for last week’s theme SILENCE: Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland A Carla Stensland B Carla Stensland C Carla Stensland D Becky Perkovich Mike Vest Dawn’s Poetry Submission: A Thought on Silence Not every moment needs to be filledSolid connection we quietly build No words need expressedNothing… Read More »RWPE #33 – Silence
I went to the State Fair with Sara on Sunday night with the mistaken belief that we would go see Vanilla Ice and Tone Loc in concert. We were going to be ironic, not because we thought this would be good, but in the end, the joke was on us.… Read More »State Fair Koan
I ‘m pretty sure that there won’t be a lot of people out there clamoring for more of these pictures, but I like the frogs. Frog with Tail More pictures from the “Frog with Tail” series: Also while I was out and about I almost got a decent turtle picture.… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #30
I wasnt able to get out and about to see much of the flooding of Ames yesterday, but here are a few pictures from the flooding near the Computer Mine: Maybe next flood I will have a chance to prowl around and take more photos. Hopefully that flood isn’t in… Read More »Contaminationville
Use and Virtue This week’s project was simply to spend some quality time with our friends the insects. Here are some “Use and Virtue” alternates:
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
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
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
Many of you know that I mostly avoid Facebook. I go on there once a week. On Monday nights. Many of you also know that I have a Twitter account. I have a Twitter Account for two reasons. 1. You can’t be this self-absorbed without having a Twitter Account. Doesn’t… Read More »Social Networking and the Beast
Theories Pass Derrick likes to tell a story (and I like to listen) about the album cover for Pink Floyd’s album Atom Heart Mother. This album features a picture of a cow. The story goes that the reason that this picture was selected for the album cover is that no… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 19
I spent a good portion of Sunday wandering Reiman Garens with Mom, Grandma, Teresa and Logan. Don’t believe me? Here is photographic evidence: I learned plenty about gnomes. I might just have to invest in a gnome someday, but the gigantic toad in the Reiman Gardens gift shop might be… Read More »Reiman Gardens