I’m workin’ on the high hopeAnd if it all works out, you might just see meOr hear from me in a while I’m gonna make it across this tight ropeAnd I’m comin’ for my prizeNo more I’ll be waitin’ ’roundWhile life just passes by Maybe when our hearts realignMaybe when… Read More »High Hope
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
If we’re gonna make itCross this river aliveYou need to think like a boatAnd go with the tideAnd I known where you’ve beenHas really left you in doubtOf ever finding a harbourOf figuring this out And you’re gonna need, all the help you can getSo lift up your arms now,… Read More »The Song of Good Hope
Time to share the a final collection of images from Pufferbilly Days Saturday last year. The collection starts at the parade and ends at the mullet and mustache contest. Here is the final collection: I still have Sunday Art in the Park pictures to share from last year’s Pufferbilly Days.… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Saturday III
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
Last November Sony released a new Macro lens. You can bet dollars to Dutch Oven Bakery donuts that your boy pre-ordered that bad boy. Here are some specs of the new guy: Here are some of the first pictures I took with the new sweetness: I love it so! It… Read More »Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 GM OSS Macro
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
Thursdays are for flowers. This Thursday’s flowertography session in the rest of the daisy pictures I took for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme CONTRAST. Here are the remains: Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve a flower know for not smelling so good.
Time for another collection of images I took on the Saturday of Pufferbilly Days last year. The last collection was all parade pictures. So is this collection. I still have one more collection of images left to share from the Saturday of Pufferbilly Days.
Thursdays are for flowers. This flowertography collection took place in my basement. These images were taken for the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme of CONTRAST. These pictures are good me thinks. Some of them might even be great, but there can only be one Immortal, there can be only one… Read More »No One’s Gonna Love You
Time to start sharing the rest of the pictures from Pufferbilly Days last year that aren’t related to the Photo Contest or Boone First United Methodist Church. The pictures in this collection are from the Pufferbilly Days Parade: Still plenty of Pufferbilly Days pictures left to share.
Last Thursday was the last collection of flower images from 2025. This is the first collection of images from 2026. These images are alternative images I took for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme of CONTRAST. Here are this Thursday’s flowertography images: Next Thursday’s flowertography session will involve more CONTRAST alternates.
This is the final collection of images from Day 1 of my trip to Ireland with Andy. It also includes one more filming location from the movie ONCE. Last Friday we left off we were admiring a busker and a couple of children that were dancing to their music. We… Read More »Ireland Day 1: Fair Play to Ya
This is the last collection of flowertography images from 2025. I took them in November of last year. I am a member of the Iowa Arboretum and that gets me free entrance into over a thousand reciprocal gardens. That includes the Greater Des Moines Botanical Gardens. It is a perk… Read More »Greater Des Moines Botanical Gardens
You’re what? You’re married. Does it surprise you? Fuck’s sake. Yeah. When? Two years ago, when I find out I’m pregnant with Ivonka. (SIGHS) So where is he? He’s back in Czech Republic. It’s over now and, you know, I come here on my own. (SIGHS) Man. You all right?… Read More »Noor Ho Tebbe
Last year the 3rd Annual Jay Janson Miniature Golf Invitational atrophied a bit. It was up to 4 competitors in 2024. But in 2025 it was down to just me and Jay. Which was about what it should have been. We went to some minigolf course that wasn’t even a… Read More »Jay Janson Invitational – 2025
Picking up from last Thursday’s flowertography session from my trip to the Iowa Arboretum back on September 19th of 2025. Last week we ended with a picture of a lovely rose. This week will begin with the more rose. This week’s collection is pretty rose heavy, but there are other… Read More »Iowa Arboretum Trip III
Last year for my SLICE OF LIFE submission I submitted a composite image from the parks in Boone. Here is a collection of images that I didn’t use in the composite: There are pictures from McHose Park, Lowell Park, Memorial Park, Veteran’s Memorial Park, Little League Park, Miles-Lee Park, and… Read More »Boone Parks
It is finally the time. It is the time to start sharing pictures from my trip to Ireland with Andy. Day 1 was mostly getting acclimated to the the time change difference. We mostly got our bearings, got our rental car, got into our AirBNB, and finally did some minor… Read More »Ireland Day 1: Say it to Me Now
Picking up from last Thursday’s flowertography session from my trip to the Iowa Arboretum back on September 19th of 2025. Last week we ended with a picture of a lovely hibiscus. This week will begin with the same hibiscus. This week’s collection has a few coneflowers, sunflowers, and roses as… Read More »Iowa Arboretum Trip II
This is the final collection of images from my final trip to the Iowa State Fair with Teresa and Valeri. Meaning that it is the final collection of images from last year’s Iowa State Fair. Period. Last Friday we left off in line to pick up my submissions to the… Read More »ISF: 08/17/2025: Rebecca St. James