Where the winds of change were blowin’ There lived a God-fearing man He was turning through his Bible When he came up with a plan He painted up a sign And held it high above his head Waved it proudly in the air, and this is what it read You… Read More »Sinners, Saints and Fools
Stay gentle, keep the eyes of a child Don’t harden your heart or your hands Know to find joy in the darkness is wise Although they will think you don’t understand Don’t let the world make you callous Be ready to laugh No one’s forgotten about us There is light… Read More »Stay Gentle
“Don’t go borrowing trouble” That’s what you used to say But we don’t keep in touch The way we used to nowadays Your eyes are not as bright As I remember them to be The light inside’s grown dim And that’s hard for me to see The creases on your… Read More »When You’re Wrong
Your mama is a werewolf With long sharp teeth I’m up all night When the world should sleep I curse the darkness When it’s killing time I got a river of fear Running through my mind When the moon shines through Those parting clouds I hear the cold And I… Read More »Mama Werewolf
This is the second to last collection of auxiliary images from trips I made to harvest signs for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. I made this trip with Teresa. This collection starts where the last collection left off. Just outside of Bloomfield. The Dutchman’s Store is located in Cantril and I… Read More »Davis County Aux. – Vol. 3
It’s a game Baby, it’s just a game And nobody loses When you learn to love the one Who finally wins sometimes You’ll be wrong ‘Cause sometimes, we get it wrong But nobody leaves here alive And nothin’ holy comes from bein’ right So don’t hold your breath like that… Read More »Letter to the Past
I have worn the jester’s bells and I have vanished with the fools I have worshiped at the altar of the puppet master’s rules I have held my tongue too many scenes before the final act With my children in the cheap seats and a zipper on my back Thanks… Read More »Broken Horses
Time to start sharing the final collection of auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. The final county I harvested town signs from was Davis County. Teresa went on the final THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trip. There are only 4 incorporated towns in Davis County, so there were stops… Read More »Davis County Aux. – Vol. 1
Here is the final collection of images of my trip to the Orange City Tulip Festival with Jesse and Nader for my birthday road trip. We start this collection where the last collection left off. Jesse shopping in an Orange City market: While this is the final collection of Orange… Read More »Orange City Tulip Festival IV
When the fire inside that burns so bright Begins to grow faded It can be hard to see the ground on which you stand Though you may not be afraid of walkin’ in the darkness You will feel like a stranger in this land When the hope that you hold… Read More »This Time Tomorrow
We begin the third collection of images from the Orange City Tulip Festival where the second collection left off. Jesse, Nader, and I were wandering around the food court area admiring a truck that sold Belgian waffles. But I didn’t have any cause I had just knocked down a fried… Read More »Orange City Tulip Festival III
They build wooden houses on frozen ponds In the summertime when the water’s gone Diagonal lines in their rolled-out lawns And the sage always smells so pretty But nobody cares where the birds have gone When the rain comes down on Babylon The stonemason’s phone rings all day long And… Read More »You and Me on the Rock
Seems like a good time to hit the backlog again. I took these pictures around my yard back on January 8 after a frost had made everything into a bit of a winter wonderland. It seemed like it was a good time to go out and take some pictures. Actually… Read More »I Just Want Myself Back
Today is Johnathan’s birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday! Happy birthday!! I hope your day is filled with all the joy you can handle and I hope you win your battle with the robot vacuum cleaner! +++++++ Come back now, even if you call me out… Read More »Right on Time
We’ve come to the end of the black & white week. Time to share the black & white pictures I took last Sunday. Some of these pictures are from wandering around my yard. Some are from the Howard Family Photo Shoot. Some are from the Octagon Art Festival. This might… Read More »Now I Don’t Want Your Sympathy
I took a ton of pictures on Saturday that are alternates for the BLACK & WHITE theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. So buckle up, this is going to be a long post. Even though most of these images can be broken into two different events. 1. Trip to Jester… Read More »But You Broke Much More Than That
Today is Elizabeth’s birthday, so I have to wish her a happy birthday! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you can handle! Filled with breakfast burritos without hashbrowns and/or Happy Joe’s Pizza! +++++++ Today I’m going to share a collection of images I took last Friday for last… Read More »I’d Say You Broke My Heart
“Waiter, send this to the table, the party of one” The only other lonely soul in this place And so you’re finishing up your coffee, but then where you’re gonna run? Where’d you get that look on your face? You should always let the sun go down on your anger… Read More »Party of One
This collection of alternate images for last week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE will include pictures I took on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Most of them I took on my lunch break from the computer mine on Wednesday. I went to downtown Ames to talk to Derrick… Read More »About Someone Who Loved You More
I told you that BLACK & WHITE was my favorite theme and I wasn’t joking. I took a ton of BLACK & WHITE pictures for last week’s theme and every day (well almost every day) this week I’m going to share another collection of alternates. This first collection consists of… Read More »But God, You Couldn’t Have Cared Less
I love the songs I hated when I was young Because they take me back where I come from When every broken heart seemed like the end When everyone was someone different then But I can’t be alone in a crowded room Where my thoughts, they run like water down… Read More »Harder to Forgive