I don’t want to pile on, but what has been happening with the Iowa football team this season is a disgrace and an embarrassment to the state of Iowa. I’ve always thought that Ferentz was a great coach and I know that nobody can control 125 or so hormonal, young… Read More »Prison Overcrowding
So I’ve begun the task of creating the Photography 139 calendar. I printed out a few test images and hung them on my wall at the mine. I took some sticky notes and numbered them 1 through 12. Then I thought about my very general rules for selecting pictures to… Read More »Curious
Here is a copy of Mark’s latest newsletter. The Taiwan Times By Mark Wolfram Reporting on God’s mission in Taiwan November 2007 Jamming with Jenny Hello again everyone! While in Taiwan, I have had many chances to play the guitar. On a given week, I usually play guitar for 2… Read More »Taiwan Times – November Issue
Tried some stuff tonight. I can’t really explain it. Except to say that these are not manipulated in Photoshop.
Many great things happened on Saturday. Iowa State beat Kansas State I got to take my nephew Johnathan to his first ever Cyclone football game. I got to tailgate with the Fausts, Willy, Jay, and Derrick. Then just to put icing on the Great Day Cake: Kansas put up over… Read More »A Great Saturday
It was Beggars’ Night in Boone on Wednesday night. Thought I’d post a couple of pictures of some people who showed up on the porch.
I mentioned that I was going to celebrate the peak of fall colors with a little train ride. The pictures from the train ride are now posted. Just follow the link below: BOONE & SCENIC VALLEY RAILROAD It was a very overcast and dark day. That meant a large aperture… Read More »BSVRR!
“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Von.” – Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange) If all things are relative, the loss to Oklahoma on Saturday felt like a win since it was an incredible… Read More »Oklahoma
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!” – Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange) I might… Read More »The Third Crack
This week’s full Moon will be the largest full Moon of the year. The two days to get outside and enjoy the largest full Moon of 2007 are Thursday and Friday. I lifted this article below from SpaceWeather.com for your perusal if you are interested in more information. This week’s… Read More »Does Size Matter?
I took my first crack at some fall pictures during my lunch break today. I wasn’t 100% pleased with anything. However, I will go back out for my lunch break tomorrow with a guy holding an umbrella. That guy is Jesse. It is good to have him back at the… Read More »First Crack
“Sorry don’t get it done, Dude. That’s the second time you hit me. Don’t ever do it again.” -John T. Chance Rio Bravo (1959) The Iowa State-Texas game was over about 2 minutes into the sad, sordid affair. It was a rainy, gloomy day. The pictures from this debacle are… Read More »Texas Sized Beatdown
You know how newspapers can print absolutely anything despite the facts and then when somebody actually calls them on it they run a retraction buried on page 12F in the smallest font imaginable? Well I’m not a newspaper. I’m not anybody even pretending to be a news outlet. So I’ll… Read More »Whoops!
I was counting up the ways that a person could make contact with me and I decided that I needed one more way. So I actually took the time and energy and told the guy that hosts my website (Frank) to give me an address at my own domain. So… Read More »A Very Non Exciting Announcement
The gallery of pictures from Amy’s wedding is up for those interested in perusing such a thing. AMY’S WEDDING
I’d like to think that I had a better than average week this week. It started out poorly as the Padres lost to the Rockies in a play in game and despite the fact that the umpire blew the call that gave the Rockies the win, I accept the loss… Read More »Johnny Consumer
This past weekend was Homecoming in Boone. This ended up being quite the production for Johnathan, Elainie, and Brandon. Below are some pictures of them all dressed up and looking slick. As you can tell, Elainie was really into getting her picture taken. Brandon and Johnathan? Not so much.
Saturday was a momentous occasion. It was first time in the history of my knowing Greg I saw him not wearing a hat. Oh yeah, he also married Amanda too. Here are a few pictures from the reception and a few random candle pictures thrown in at the end.
I’ve just had a few random thoughts cross my brain in the last few days. Harvest Moon Last night was the Harvest Moon. I didn’t really get to check it out myself because it was cloudy and I fell asleep on the couch waiting for score updates from the Padres… Read More »The Presbyterian Experience
