Thursday was the annual Boone First United Methodist Church’s Free Community Thanksgiving Meal. I’ll share final details later, but I do know that we served over 500 people in the drive-thru lane alone! I thought I would start by sharing a few drone photos I took of the event: I’ll… Read More »Rodan139: Boone FUMC Thanksgiving 2025
This is the final collection of images from Day 1 of my work trip to Philadelphia. Lowell and I were still at Geno’s and this collection will finish up at Geno’s. Although there are plenty of images in this collection of Pat’s. I wasn’t sure I would actually make it… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Rest of Geno’s
At the end of the last collection Lowell and I were wandering around Chinatown. In this collection we will finish up in Chinatown and then move on to the famous Philly Cheesesteak Square. Home of Geno’s Steaks and Pat’s King of Steaks. 2 of the most famous cheesesteaks in all… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: On to Cheesesteak Square
Can you believe that this is the 5,750th 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 5,750
When we last visited the collection of images from Day 1 of my trip to Philadelphia, Lowell and I had just left the Independence Hall area. In this collection we will go by the cemetery where Benjamin Franklin is buried on our way to Chinatown. Here are the pictures: If… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Walk to Chinatown
Happy Veterans Day! Today, we pause to honor the brave men and women who have served our nation with courage, integrity, and unwavering commitment. Veterans Day is a time to reflect on the sacrifices made by those who stood ready to protect our freedoms — and to recognize the families… Read More »Some 35 Firsts
Back in April I went to Philadelphia for several days on a trip for the Computer Mine. The first day was a travel day, so after I got to Philadelphia, the rest of the day was really mine. After I got checked in to my hotel Lowell and l I… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Walkabout Begins
There aren’t many cruddy cell phone pictures from Day 6, the last day in Ireland to share. One of the things we did was far too dangerous to have a cell phone out. It wasn’t dangerous for us, but a cell phone would have definitely gotten lost. Plus I definitely… Read More »Ireland Day 6
As you know, I enjoy buying photography toys. Often not useful. But sometimes just fun to play with. Which if you aren’t getting any joy out of photography, you are doing it wrong. I bought an entirely plastic toy camera for about 10 bucks early in the year, but that… Read More »Chuzhao
This is it. The final collection of images from my work trip to Austin, Texas. When we left off last Friday, we were walking around the Texas State Capitol. We will begin inside the Capitol and the rest of the pictures are from the walk back to the hotel. Once… Read More »Austin Day 5: The Walk Back
Last time we left off we were walking to the stadium for the game. Our good friends from the Luas told us to just follow the canal and we would get there. We should have followed their advice. We followed the canal most of the way, but then we started… Read More »Ireland Day 4: Part 2
Last Friday, we had just finished where Joe, Lowell, and I ate lunch ad were starting our walk toward the Texas Capitol Building. To be honest, and this isn’t a favoritism towards Iowa thing, it isn’t much to look at, compared to the Capitol building in Iowa. Here are some… Read More »Austin Day 5: The Capitol
Last Friday we started on the River Walk with Joe and Lowell. This week we will finish off the river walk and go through the restaurant where we got a late lunch. Here are the pictures: Still quite a few images left from my last day in Austin left to… Read More »Austin Day 5: More River Walk
On Wednesday, the Iowa Pork Producers Association released the finalists for this years Iowa’s Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin. For us blue-collar-to-no-collar folks this is the equivalent to the Beard Awards or Michelin stars. You can have your fancy pants restaurants. Give me a pork tenderloin, a side of onion rings,… Read More »Ireland Day 3
Day 5. The last day I spent in Austin for the bi-annual CMC. This is the best day because it is only a half day of work. Then there is the rest of the day basically free. This was the best half day I’ve had at the CMC. Joe lives… Read More »Austin Day 5: River Walk
On Day 3 of Austin, I was able to get away from work enough to do a quick little walk around our area and do some night street photography. Here are some pictures: The next day in Austin, there wasn’t much of anything, as far as photography, but I’ll share… Read More »Austin Day 3: Night Street Photography
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
Time to show the rest of the pictures from trip to Briggs Woods Park. Have a look: It was a nice little hike. I’ll have to do it again at some point.
Back in November I journeyed up to Briggs Woods Park to take a look at their waterfall. It was cold and not super colorful, but I managed to snap some pictures. Have a look: Still one more collection of pictures from this trip to share!
Time to clean up some backlog. This is a collection of images that I like to one degree or another, but never really fit into previous post. All of these pictures were taken in October. Have a looksie: It always feels good to clean out a little bit of the… Read More »You’re So Effing Special
Back in October I took not one, but two road trips to try some tenderloins. First I went to Manning to try the Best Tenderloin in Iowa for 2023. Then I went to Dunlap to try the Best Tenderloin in Iowa for 2024. But I also poked around each town… Read More »Tenderloining Auxiliary Images