Back in July Dahlia threw a tremendous birthday bash! All the celebrities were there! And by all the celebrities, I mean Moana was there! I took a few pictures of the spectacle. Ain’t no time to share them like right now:
Can’t wait to see who shows up at Dahlia’s next birthday party bash!
Time to share the last collection of glorious BLACK AND WHITE images I took but didn’t use for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. These were also all taken at Logan’s birthday party.
The ink has barely dried on this post and I’m already sad our trip through all the glorious BLACK & WHITE pictures is over. I can’t wait until BLACK & WHITE is a theme again!
Today is Dahlia’s birthday. So I need to wish her a happy birthday.
I hope your birthday is filled with plenty of play time!
Time for another collection of glorious BLACK AND WHITE images. These were all taken at Logan’s birthday party. I hope you like pictures of kids playing in water!
I still have one more collection of glorious BLACK AND WHITE images to share! I’m post black and white, animal triste.
Back on Wednesday we had our annual White Elephant Gift Exchange at the Computer Mine. I snapped a few photos of the event for the Computer Mine social medias.
Here are a few pictures:
If you are wondering, I ended up with the tortilla blanket. I stole it from Amy because I thought it would make a perfect addition to Taco Tailgate and nobody stole it from me, cause of the general fear my co-workers have of me. So much fear.
Back before the pandemic, there were like 30 or so people that participated. This year there were 13 methinks. It is still a fun little work tradition. Even if this year nobody showed up drunk. Maybe next year.
On Thanksgiving I took Rodan139 out for a very brief spin to take some pictures of the Boone First United Methodist Church’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner. It was very brief as Rodan139 was constantly be harassed by a flock of birds (the same flock of birds I photographed for my ANIMAL submission) so I brought the drone down after only a few minutes.
Here are some of the pictures I took:
Hopefully I can get Rodan139 out again sometime soon. We will have to see.
I realize now that I forgot to wish people a Happy Thanksgiving yesterday. I don’t have a picture that represents Thanksgiving to me this year, but I do hope that everybody had a good Thanksgiving! I had a pretty good one. Enough of one that I am going to have three posts that cover my Thanksgiving.
This first one is from ground pictures I took of the annual Boone First United Methodist Community Thanksgiving.
It was a great event. I’m not sure what the final numbers were, but there were more people fed than expected. I’d guess more people than last year based on the length of the drive-thru line and the fact that extra tables had to be setup. Still more pictures from my Thanksgiving day left to share.
2019. 2019! That was the last time that the Methodist Men held a pie auction. A lot of lasts happened in that year. Most things have come back. But the Methodist Men Pie Auction was not one of them. Until last Sunday. For the first time in 4 years the congregation of the Boone First United Methodist Church gathered in Fellowship Hall and bid on pies made by other members of the church.
I confess to having had limited expectations. Our congregation is considerably smaller than it was before COVID. But I have to tell you, I was blown away. Absolutely blown away.
Here are some pictures of the event. The pictures taken during the auction were taken by Teresa:
I tried hard to guilt Jason into coming to bid on his mom’s pie. It did not work.
Somehow Shannon ended up with a piece of this and I did NOT!
So many people requested that Teresa make this pie with my Mom’s recipe. Teresa practiced this for months. Strange thing is while Mom made this pie for many people it wasn’t one she made for us. I don’t know if she made it ever for us. My favorite pie my Mom made was rhubarb. But every pie she made was good.
Andy told quite a tale about these brownies. And he wasn’t lying, they were delicious.
The pie auction raised $2,500 for our youth ministry program. Now we just have to get our youth ministry program going again. Rumor has it there might be a float trip this summer. That would be a good start.
I’ve already shared the drone photos I took of the Sleeping Angels Fun Run and the sweet video that Logan made, but I haven’t shared the pictures I took from my ground camera. Which doesn’t have a sweet name like Rodan139. Maybe I should remedy that. Although I’m on like 6th (just guessing) primary camera since I took up photography and I’ve never given a camera a name. I’ll have to think on it.
Here are the pictures:
A reminder, in case you forgot what Sleeping Angels is:
The Sleeping Angels Foundation is an Iowa volunteer based non-profit organization that will assist families in the State of Iowa who have or will suffer due to loss of a child. (This includes neonatal, perinatal and infant loss.) The Sleeping Angels Foundation director and officers will determine to whom the donation will be donated to.
Our founder and his wife lost their daughter, Maggie Nicole Droste, who was born with Trisomy 18. Maggie lived for 3 hours before passing away.
Trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome, is a condition which is caused by an error in cell division, known as meiotic disjunction. Trisomy 18 occurs in about 1 out of every 2500 pregnancies in the United States, about 1 in 6000 live births. The numbers of total births increase significantly when stillbirths are factored in that occur in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy.
Our objective is to make varying monetary donations to families, depending on the individual family’s needs. I.e. headstone, funeral costs, medical bills, etc. Since no one’s situation is the same, the director and officers of the Sleeping Angels Foundation will evaluate on a case by case basis and determine what would help the family the most.
The Sleeping Angels Foundation will hold events created by our officers throughout the year to raise funds.
You can find their website here:
A couple Saturdays back Logan and I photographed and videographed this year’s motorcycle ride fundraiser. They contacted me and wanted me to get a drone picture of them as they rode across the Mile Long Bridge. I contacted Logan to assist.
If you don’t know what Sleeping Angels is, here is their story from their website:
The Sleeping Angels Foundation is an Iowa volunteer based non-profit organization that will assist families in the State of Iowa who have or will suffer due to loss of a child. (This includes neonatal, perinatal and infant loss.) The Sleeping Angels Foundation director and officers will determine to whom the donation will be donated to.
Our founder and his wife lost their daughter, Maggie Nicole Droste, who was born with Trisomy 18. Maggie lived for 3 hours before passing away.
Trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome, is a condition which is caused by an error in cell division, known as meiotic disjunction. Trisomy 18 occurs in about 1 out of every 2500 pregnancies in the United States, about 1 in 6000 live births. The numbers of total births increase significantly when stillbirths are factored in that occur in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy.
Our objective is to make varying monetary donations to families, depending on the individual family’s needs. I.e. headstone, funeral costs, medical bills, etc. Since no one’s situation is the same, the director and officers of the Sleeping Angels Foundation will evaluate on a case by case basis and determine what would help the family the most.
The weather the day of the event was pretty iffy, so I wasn’t sure we would be able to get any drone photos by the Mile Long Bridge, so we followed the bikers to their first stop in Cambridge and took some pictures of them there.
There is one more collection of drone photos from the Sleeping Angels Fun Run left to share.
Seems like a good time to clean up the July backlog. This collection of images was taken in July of last year, but never really found a spot in a previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entry. Some pictures are of a storm. Some are from the Boone County Fair. Some are of a baby bird, or an immature bird. Some are from Dahlia’s birthday party.
Always feels good to get a little bit of that backlog cleared out.
