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
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
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
Time to start firing away on the 2023 backlog. This is a collection of pictures I took in January that really didn’t fit into any other posts. Some were pictures of my beard before I shaved. Some are from Madrid. Some are of elk in Jester Park. Some might be… Read More »As the Girls You Had Before
One, two, three, four… Out in the middle of nowhere With nothing much else to do Oh, the night brought us together And I lent my heart to you Maybe you were running way from something Without so much as a plan Not a living soul to guide you Jesus… Read More »Fulton County Jane Doe
If I don’t owe you a favor, you don’t know me I don’t believe we’ve ever even met If there’s a God in heaven you can show me Then I guess I should admit I lost the bet There are moments I could hold you forever There are moments that… Read More »Whatever You Do
Today is Teresa’s birthday. So Happy birthday Teresa! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind You tethered to another, and you’re worried all the time You always knew the melody, but you never… Read More »The Mother
I run a lot of miles of life and crime And mountain climbs and quittin’ times Packing that load of lyin’ rhymes And tired jokes and wooden dimes I’ve been everybody’s friend, everybody’s friend I could lose my house, I could steal a car I could serve two masters, living… Read More »Hold Out Your Hand
You’re feeling nervous, aren’t you, boy? With your quiet voice and impeccable style Don’t ever let them steal your joy And your gentle ways To keep ’em from running wild They can kick dirt in your face Dress you down, and tell you that your place Is in the middle,… Read More »The Joke
A love song was playing on the radio It made me kind of sad because it made me think of you And I wonder how you’re doing but I wish I didn’t care Because I gave you all I had and got the worst of you Didn’t it break your… Read More »Every Time I Hear That Song
Some rights and some wrongs Some heroes and songs Are much better left unsung Between fiction and fact Illusion and pact Where we’ve been into what we’ve become Although we have changed We’re never estranged And there’s nothing I’d trade from before I’ll never ally Although this is goodbye To… Read More »Heroes and Songs
I have seen the fire watcher’s daughter Watching fires burn from smoke to black There’s nothing she won’t burn From Styrofoam to urns, to someone else’s ashes in a sack You can scorch the metal, you can even melt the glass You can pass the time here, fire lives into… Read More »The Stranger At My Door
This is how the story went I met someone by accident That blew me away, that blew me away It was in the darkest of my days When you took my sorrow and you took my pain Buried them away, you buried them away You dropped me off at the… Read More »Hiding My Heart
Another chance to clean up the backlog. These pictures were taken in October of last year but never really fit into any “An Artist’s Notebook” entries. Some were alternate images for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Some, I just took when I was out and about. Always feels good to get… Read More »But I Don’t Think That’s True
I done some bad, bad things The kind you don’t bring up at confession Somewhere in my life, woah I took the wrong direction I swear on my soul I didn’t wanna hurt no one But I got no way to justify The things I done I swear some people… Read More »Alibi
This final collection of images from Day 2 in Chicago start as I was doing a walkabout of Wrigley Field. When I was a kid I really loved baseball, but as an adult that love has really waned. I hate to say it, but baseball is boring and it takes… Read More »The Windy City: Day 2C
You’re still alive inside somewhere Or are you just remains? You’re blood, muscle, skin and bone So people cause you pain But when the skies are crashing down And when my days are dark and grey When my fires are burning low When the life inside me fades There’s a… Read More »Blood Muscle Skin & Bone
SLICE OF LIFE. As you know, this is a very special theme for me. My Dad would have turned 80 years old yesterday. My hope was that his photography legacy would inspire many people to submit this week. Did it? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out. As of… Read More »WPC – WEEK 404 – SLICE OF LIFE
You came into this world with eyes as clear as water You didn’t look a thing like your grandmother’s daughter With a heart so heavy and beating like a drum Yeah, neither did you look like your grandfather’s son Wilder than a brushfire burns deep inside the bramble Baby, I… Read More »Wilder (We’re Chained)
NOTE: THERE ARE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS WEEK’S THEME, SO MAKE SURE TO PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THEM. JUST DON’T SKIM BY THEM. NOT THAT ANYBODY DOES THAT. EVERYBODY HANGS ON MY EVERY WORD. TEXTURE. It is something you really have to feel. But as a theme, did a bunch… Read More »WPC – WEEK 403 – TEXTURE
You carry me along with you Keep my spirit strong, you do Maybe I was meant to be Under your lock and key The hard times that I had Really, don’t seem all that bad Yesterday is long ago and far away And I’m beginning to feel the years But… Read More »Beginning to Feel the Years