I had a pretty awesome Memorial Day Weekend and saw all of the right people. Plus, my grill got quite the workout. The weekend started with FNSC at my humble abode. The group core was there, plus Jesse and Dawn. Jesse, Willy and I hung by the fire pit until… Read More »Memorial Day Weekend
Last week’s theme really fired the imagination of some contributors as multiple people submitted multiple images for PAINTING WITH LIGHT. Mike Vest A Mike Vest B Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland A Carla Stensland B Dawn Krause A Dawn Krause B Justin Whitaker Dawn Weekly Poem Painting with Light Oh… Read More »RWPE #22 – Painting with Light
Loneliness is Underrated This is a bit unusual. Up until this week I have posted the Personal Photo Project of the Week in the order that the project was attempted. This picture of Willy was actually slated for a June 11th publishing, but I decided to slide it up a… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 20
Many of you know that I mostly avoid Facebook. I go on there once a week. On Monday nights. Many of you also know that I have a Twitter account. I have a Twitter Account for two reasons. 1. You can’t be this self-absorbed without having a Twitter Account. Doesn’t… Read More »Social Networking and the Beast
Hot off the presses! The latest issue of The Taiwan Times. The Taiwan Times By Mark Wolfram Reporting on God’s Mission in Taiwan May 2010 20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within… Read More »The Taiwan Times – May 2010
I had Nate and Bethany staying with me this weekend. I let Nate choose my submission for RWPE and to be real honest, he actually picked my least favorite picture from the session. Regardless, I thought I would share a few more pictures from last week’s RWPE featuring a white… Read More »Euphony
With the big holiday weekend there weren’t many submissions for last week’s theme – HARMONY. In fact, there were only two. Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest The Random Generator has spoken. The theme for this week is: Painting with Light This one is kind of tricky and involves… Read More »RWPE #21 – Harmony
Theories Pass Derrick likes to tell a story (and I like to listen) about the album cover for Pink Floyd’s album Atom Heart Mother. This album features a picture of a cow. The story goes that the reason that this picture was selected for the album cover is that no… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 19
I spent a good portion of Sunday wandering Reiman Garens with Mom, Grandma, Teresa and Logan. Don’t believe me? Here is photographic evidence: I learned plenty about gnomes. I might just have to invest in a gnome someday, but the gigantic toad in the Reiman Gardens gift shop might be… Read More »Reiman Gardens
I have planted lots of flowers this year. Nothing has officially died yet. Where I come from, that is considered an accomplishment. This isn’t really a flower, but rotting rhubarb is kind of colorful. Another hopeful development is that my moonflower has started to ascend from the soil. On the… Read More »The Yard
Here are the submissions for last week’s Random Weekly Photo Experiment – PANNING CAMERA BLUR: Mike Vest Christopher D. Bennett Dawn Krause of Impassioned Versifier Debra Krause Justin Whitaker of American Buddhist Perspective It is very exciting to have Debra as a first time contributor, even though she accused me… Read More »RWPE #20 – Panning Camera Blur
My goal for Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 18 was to capture a tulip picture. I visited tulips in my Mom’s yard, my Grandma’s yard and in Pella. After taking a lot of pictures, the photo below is the picture that best captures my tulip vision. Amen Here… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 18
A couple of weeks ago I went to Brookside to burn off a lunch hour. Here are a few of those photos: I need to get out of the mine more often.
I broke Day 9 into two post because of the large amount of pictures, if you recall. You are about to see the rest of those pictures. After all the flowers were planted, we all went our separate ways to wash up. Then the family reunited at the Stensland home… Read More »Vacation Day 9B – Mother’s Day Early
Here are the submissions for last week’s Random Weekly Photo Experiment – LEADING LINES: Dawn Krause Mike Vest Teresa Kahler Christopher D. Bennett Becky Perkovich Dawn’s Poem Leading Line No come-ons were neededYou peeked into my soulWe saw each other clearlyAnd made each other whole No empty promises spokenNo need… Read More »RWPE #19 – Leading Lines
The Personal Photo Project of the Week for this week is a little bit different than previous projects because it isn’t necessarily a designed photo, but more like an event that I wanted to photograph. This is the type of event that I have photographed many times in the past,… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 17
I’m going to split my final day of vacation into two posts due to what could be a large amount of photos. After church on Sunday I went with my Mom to Northwest Greenhouse to get new flowers for the yard. I prefer perennials because I don’t really want to… Read More »Vacation Day 9A – Some Color
I woke up on Saturday morning and decided today was a good day to do yard work. I don’t normally reward myself because just being me is quite its own reward, but I knew that I wanted to work up an extremely healthy appetite for the night’s dining. I was… Read More »Vacation Day 8 – The Cinema
When I originally was planning my vacation I had set aside this day to make a road trip. I didn’t know where I wanted to go for sure, but I knew that a trip to Wilton and their old timey ice cream parlor was definitely on the list. I had… Read More »Vacation Day 7 – Couch Time
Here are the submissions for last week’s theme – WILD: Dawn Krause A Dawn Krause B Michael Vest of Waxen Media Christopher D. Bennett Carla Stensland Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey There were a couple of late submissions for FEET. They can be seen on the… Read More »RWPE #18 – Wild
Thursday was my Mom’s last day showing up on the job. She isn’t “officially” retired yet, because she has to file some paperwork, but she doesn’t have to get up and go to work ever again. Yesterday, I took a tour around my Mom’s work history. Here is the photographic… Read More »Happy Mother’s Day, Slacker