Today I reveal the March image for the 2023 Photography Calendar. March I took this picture of this American Gothic barn near Mount Vernon, Iowa on a TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trip with Michelle on November 14, 2021. Here is a picture of us standing in front of it: Here… Read More »Caroline
Time to reveal the February image for the 2023 Photography 139 Calendar: February I took this macro image of a hollyhock in my yard. It is a little known fact that I am one of the premiere hollyhock farmers in all of Boone, Iowa. People comes from miles around to… Read More »Fayette & Winneshiek County Aux – Vol. 1
Time to reveal the January image for the 2023 Photography 139 Calendar. January I took this picture while harvesting the town signs of Appanoose County for THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. It is the lighthouse at Lake Rathbun. I wish I could come up with a good reason why I picked… Read More »If I Looked Like the Other Prom Queens
In case you hadn’t heard, Iowa State clinched the 2022-23 Cy-Hawk Series last Friday night when the Cyclone Swimming and Diving team beat the Hawks 156-144. Iowa State currently holds a 13-6 lead with 3 events left to go. Iowa State beat Iowa in Soccer, Volleyball, Football, Women’s Cross Country,… Read More »That Year
Dreams, I have dreams When I’m awake, when I’m asleep And you, you are in my dreams You’re underneath my skin, how am I so weak? And now, in my dreams I can feel the wait, I could just come clean I keep it to myself, I know what it… Read More »Dreams
Time of day I can’t recall The kind of thing that takes a toll Over years of overtime Over smiles and over wine All in all, it wasn’t bad All in all, it wasn’t good But I still care That’s the problem with the days They’re never long enough to… Read More »Pride and Joy
Now I’m lost in a sea of sunken dreams While the sound of drunken screams echoes in the night But I know all of this will come to pass And I’ll be with you at last forever by your side How these days grow long But I’m on my way… Read More »Dying Day
I went out looking for the answers And never left my town I’m no good at understanding But I’m good at standing ground And when I asked a corner preacher I couldn’t hear him for my youth Some people get religion Some people get the truth I never get the… Read More »Looking Out
Broken sticks and broken stones Will turn to dust just like our bones It’s words that hurt the most now isn’t it Are you sad inside, are you home alone If I could just pick up the phone Maybe you could see a better day And you won’t waste away… Read More »Again Today
Gone It’s hard for me to see when I’m wrong It’s hard for me to weep when I’m strong But I could never sleep when you’re gone Oh but still If you were gonna crucify me I wouldn’t want nobody to see Cause you could kick me hard when I’m… Read More »Shadow on the Wall
I’m like the rain in a downpour I wash away what you long for And I wave goodbye with the sun in my eyes I wish I could be there tonight I’m like the wind in the canyon I’m there then I’m gone in a second You’re growing older in… Read More »Downpour
MACRO. Close-up photography. One of my favorite types of photography, but was it popular on the aggregate level? You will have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, October 10, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses): 1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe… Read More »WPC – WEEK 370 – MACRO
Sometimes it happens that in my haste to post the THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE images I let one slip through the cracks. This week was one of those. Cathie actually submitted two pictures, but I only posted one for VIOLET. Cathie is one of those hardcore one submission I week… Read More »Pufferbilly Days 2022 – Mud Volleyball
I was born when I met you Now I’m dying to forget you And that is what I know Though I dreamed I would fall Like a wounded cannonball Sinking down with my heart in tow Bright lights like white lightning Who shot me down Who will cut me down… Read More »Cannonball
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