VIOLET. Purple. Lavender. I got submission sent under all those headings. But did I get a lot of them? Was VIOLET a popular theme? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, October 3, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the… Read More »WPC – WEEK 369 – VIOLET
Usually on these Flower Thursdays, if the is more than one type of flower in the pictures, I take the blog title from a Brandi Carlile song title. Then I include some of the lyrics from the song. I point this out because I don’t really point this out. I… Read More »Fist City
I don’t mind If my heart don’t beat and The sun don’t shine They’ll get theirs You’ll get yours and I’ll get mine It used to be that everything was easy Now it’s lost and nobody believes me Am I losing heart Have I frozen it, oh yeah Am I… Read More »Losing Heart
Noontime wind can you blow For me one more time And take me on back to the start Where the midnight moon shines so bright Nearly pulled us up to Heaven By the strings of our heart Thursday is for flowers and this Thursday I showcase some flowers from my… Read More »Josephine
Have you ever wandered lonely through the woods? And everything there feels just as it should You’re part of the life there You’re part of something good If you’ve ever wandered lonely through the woods Thursday is for flowers and this Thursday showcases a fairly diverse collection of flowers. All… Read More »Have You Ever
Thursdays are for flowers and this collection is a collection of gazania (African daisies) from the flower pots of my yard. I might have gone overboard photographing them this year because I didn’t have any in 2021. Just kidding! There is no going overboard in the world of flowertography! I’m… Read More »The Girl in the Blue Skirt 2022 – Vol. 2
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -Saadi This is a quote attributed to the Persian poet Saadi Shirazi. He was a Persian poet that lived in the 13th century. I have tried to find the original context of this quote, but have failed miserably.… Read More »Sorrow and Gladness 2022 – Vol. 3
Time to share the second collection of images I took at the State Center Rose Garden back on June 18. It is one of my favorite flower gardens in Iowa. I definitely try to hit it every year. It was part of a full day of photography. I started at… Read More »Sorrow and Gladness 2022 – Vol. 2
Thursdays are for flowers. Back in June I made a trip to the State Center Rose Garden to do a little flowertography. The lighting wasn’t great and it turned out it was during their Rose Festival, so the timing wasn’t great, but I still think some good work was done.… Read More »Sorrow and Gladness 2022 – Vol. 1
And when you speak the words you know To those who know the words themselves You’re wasted You’re such a classic waste of cool, so afraid to Break the rules in all the wrong places Thursdays are for flowers. Here is a collection of flower pictures I took a bit… Read More »Wasted
Reminder that tomorrow is the deadline to turn in your entries to the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Important things to note: + Entry Deadline: July 29, 2022 – 5 PM + Turn entries in at the Boone County Chamber of Commerce – 903 Story Street – Boone, Iowa + 3… Read More »My Song
A reminder that this Friday is the deadline for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Entries are to be submitted to the Chamber office by 5 PM. I hope there are plenty of submissions this year! Or at the least, more than there were last year. +++++++ Was WILD a WILDly… Read More »WPC – WEEK 358 – WILD
Once again, I am reminding you that the deadline for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest is coming up. It is next Friday! So you have 9 days to get your entry together and get it to the Chamber office. By 5 PM. On July 29. Here is a reminder of… Read More »Turpentine
Just a reminder that Pufferbilly Days is right around the corner. About 16 days left to get your pictures entered for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. But before we get into that, I also want to remind you that during Saturday of the Pufferbilly Days is the Pufferbilly Days Pet… Read More »The Story
Here is your reminder that July 29 is the deadline for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. Entries need to be turned in to the Chamber by 5 PM that day. It is a Friday. You don’t have to be from Boone or Boone County to enter. Just somebody that enjoys… Read More »The Girl in the Blue Skirt – 2022
It is less than one month until the deadline to turn in your pictures for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. This is my second year running the contest, so I had time to make a few changes this year. But first, I actually had two flyers made for this year’s… Read More »Late Morning Lullaby
I though SELF-PORTAIT would be a popular theme. Do you think I was right? Well, you’ll have to scroll down to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, June 20, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses): + Becky Parmelee – 1 week… Read More »WPC – 354 – SELF-PORTRAIT
“Yes I’ll sit with you and talk, let your eyes relive again. I know my vintage prayers would be very much the same. And Magdalena plays the organ, plays it just for you. Your choral lamp that burns so low, when you are passing through. And the future you’re giving… Read More »60 Years On
About a month ago I finally started buying flowers for my flower pots and urns. I took a few pictures then. But apparently only pictures of a dahlia, some petunias, and a marigold. I’ve probably spent like $200 on flowers this year. So far. I’m terribly far behind on yardwork,… Read More »Tragedy
Where flowers bloom, so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson Back in early may I bought some geranium hanging flower baskets for my front yard. Here are some pictures I took of the geraniums. I think hanging geranium flower baskets in my front yard is going to become traditional. I like… Read More »So Does Hope – 2022
FLOWER has proven to be a pretty popular theme. I’m always not sure how these things will go because I know more than a few people that just absolutely HATE flower photography or as my forthcoming book will be called, flowertography. Not only do they HATE flower pictures, they in… Read More »WPC – WEEK 351 – FLOWER