f I needed you, would you come to me?Would you come to me and ease my pain?If you needed me, I would come to youI’d swim the seas for to ease your pain Well, in the night forlorn, oh, the morning’s bornAnd the morning shines with the lights of loveAnd… Read More »If I Needed You
Here you come againJust when I’ve begun to get myself togetherYou waltz right in the door, just like you’ve done beforeAnd wrap my heart ’round your little finger Here you come againJust when I’m about to make it work without youYou look into my eyes and lie those pretty liesAnd… Read More »Here You Come Again
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
Love is like a butterfly (love is like a butterfly)As soft and gentle as a sighThe multicolored moods of love are like its satin wingsLove makes your heart feel strange insideIt flutters like soft wings in flightLove is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing (love is like) I… Read More »Love is Like a Butterfly
I wanna sit you down and talkI wanna pull back the veilsAnd find out what it is I’ve done wrongI wanna tear these curtains downI want you to meet me somewhereTonight in this old tourist townAnd we’ll go Low rising‘Cause we’ve gotta come upWe’ve gotta come upLow rising‘Cause there’s no… Read More »Low Rising
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