You don’t know how you move meDeconstruct me and consume meI’m all used up, I’m out of luck I am star struckBy something in your eyesThat is keeping my hope alive But I’m sick of myself when I look at youSomething is beautiful and trueIn a world that’s ugly and… Read More »Sick of Myself
Today is Maundy Thursday and on high holy days, I like to include a devotional in these posts. The “Jesus Blog” has to do some Jesusing every now and again. Wesley Men Lenten & Easter Devotionals 2025 Holy Thursday – April 17, 2025 Gospel Lectionary John 13:1-17, 31b-35 New International… Read More »Love Like This
Let me step outside myselfWill you try to hold my hand?What if I told youWhen the smoke clearsYou’re the only one who can?I know I’ve tried youDefied and denied youThrown punches in the airClosed my eyes and count to tenPraying you’d still be standing there Hang in there, darling, won’t… Read More »Someone to Belong To
Can’t like you in the morningLove you at nightCan’t hate all your wrongsAnd only want all your rights Can’t treat you like a strangerWhen you ain’t aroundTreat you like a loverWe’re out on the town ‘Cause that ain’t how love is madeThat ain’t how love is madeIt’s all or nothingGotta… Read More »That’s How Love is Made
Treat me like a foolTreat me mean and cruelBut love meWring my faithful heartTear it all apartBut love me (Won’t you love me?) Well, if you ever goDarling, I’ll be, oh, so lonelyI’ll be sad and blueCrying over you, dear, only I would beg and steal (beg and steal)Just to… Read More »Love Me
Just a reminder… don’t forget to get your bracket filled out for Year 20 of THE ROUNDBALL ORACLES. Go here to join in the fun: ROUNDBALL ORACLES – YEAR 20 Deadline is roughly 11 AM (CENTRAL) this morning. Good luck! Love is a lieSucking you dryLove’s not a friend Until… Read More »Love is a Lie
I knew you before we metWe don’t need all the answers yetI’m sure time will change me someYou see what I could becomeSo much left to figure outI never took the easy routeAnd I was born with my boots onWill you take ’em off me when I’m gone? I love… Read More »Wind Behind the Rain
Sometimes life will lead you off the roadIt will be hard to know which way to goThere may be mountains standing in your wayYou’ll have to climb when you rise to meet the dayIt doesn’t matter how far you goIt’s how you get there, you’ll know when you knowWhen you… Read More »Remember Me
Today is Ash Wednesday. Normally, this is when I invite you to come to worship with me at my church’s Ash Wednesday Service. And none of you take me up on the offer, but I’m not bitter about it. I’m not going to invite you this year though because of… Read More »DM Farmer’s Market: Music and Food
There may one day come a timeWhen I cannot recognize your faceI might know that I should know you from somewhereBut I’ll ache to remember such a placeI might wonder at the stranger in the mirrorWho still carries an old forgotten loadOr the many twists and turns life had to… Read More »I’ll Always Know I Do
Back in August I replaced the mid focal length lens of my Big 3. I was using a Tamron, but decided to replace it with a newer Sigma lens. I had already replaced my super wide of the Big 3 earlier in the year. I have yet to replace the… Read More »Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG DN Art Lens
When we left off last Friday I was still wandering Audubon Park. This collection starts still in Audubon Park and finishes up back near the hotel. This is the final collection of images from Day 3. I didn’t actually take any pictures of New Orleans with the real camera on… Read More »New Orleans Day 3: Back to the Hotel
One of the absolute greatest songs of all-time featured in one of the greatest movies of all-time CASABLANCA. If you’ve never seen this movie, what are you even doing! You should check it out as it is pretty relatable to the times we are living in right now. But Thursdays… Read More »As Time Goes By
If everybody had your shoulderTo lean their head onto once in a whileThen they’d know what it means to be lovedThey’d never feel alone in their miles They’d wonder why life was so kindWhen they close their eyes at the end of the day And in the darkness there would… Read More »If Everyone Had Someone
After Jesse and I got done eating, we wandered around the festivities for a bit. Checking out the sidewalk chalk that greeted the riders as they entered Winterset. Eventually we ended up by the stage listening to the band Standing Hampton. Here are some more pictures: I remember Standing Hampton… Read More »RAGBRAI: Winterset Street Art
Baby, when I met you there was peace unknown I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb I was soft inside There was something going on You do something to me that I can’t explain Hold me closer and I feel no pain Every beat of my… Read More »Islands in the Stream
If you’re traveling in the north country fair Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline Remember me to one who lives there For she once was a true love of mine See for me that her hair’s hangin’ down It curls and falls all down her breast See for… Read More »Girl from the North Country
This is the balance of sunflower pictures I took in the sunflower patch near the Harrier Marsh east of Ogden a few miles. Next Thursday’s flowertography session will go back to flowers from my yard!
Not actually using a song title for today’s journal entry for flowers. Almost every flower I photograph on the regular has a set title. Today I’m sharing only sunflower pictures, so I thought it would more apropos to use the name for all of my sunflower pictures. Painted without Instruction.… Read More »Painted without Instruction
Here we are. Time to share all the pictures I considered for the 2025 Calendar but did not make the cut for one reason or another. Could be that I decided it wasn’t good enough. Or because a similar picture was chosen over it to be placed in the calendar.… Read More »I Wanna Have Control
Time to reveal the November image from the 2025 Photography 139 Calendar: NOVEMBER TECHNICAL DETAILS CAMERA: Sony 7IV LENS: SIGMA 105mm f/2.8 DG DN MACRO FOCAL LENGTH: 105mm APERTURE: f/8 SHUTTER: 1/125 DATE: May 26, 2024 I took this macro strawflower picture in my yard. Strawflowers are one of my… Read More »#BREAKFASTBURRITOLIFE: Ames Field Work