Last Saturday we left off in the middle of the Arnolds Park Amusement Park. Which is a remarkable for no other reason than because admission is free. You have to pay for rides sure, but you don’t have to pay to get in. And when you are just looking for… Read More »Arnolds Park Day Trip: Amusement Park
Last June I took a day trip up to Arnolds Park to hang with Carla, Elainie, Elawyn, and Jason and Sabas to some degree. It was a brutally hot day, but the water was still cold. Plus it was crazy windy, so we didn’t end up going out on the… Read More »Arnolds Park Day Trip: Lunch
A few weeks back the theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE was BLACK & WHITE. I used a picture of the Johnny Orr Statue from Hilton Coliseum as my submission, but you are a dang fool if you think that was the only BLACK & WHITE image I took that… Read More »Thinking of You
I headed east on US-20 to Webster City. I was looking for some ice cream and my Google searches found that there was a Mexican ice cream place called Chicago Style located in Webster City. I wasn’t expecting to find many photo ops in Webster City as it is a… Read More »June Road Trip: Webster City
Time to reveal the August image for the 2026 Photography 139 Calendar. AUGUST – 2026 The subject of the August is a baby pig snoozing away at the Iowa State Fair. I have so many favorite parts of the Iowa State Fair and can’t wait until I actually get to… Read More »Philadelphia Day 2: The End
Now it is time to begin sharing the collection of cruddy cell phone pictures of the trip home from Ireland to the Cyclone State. We got up in the morning and headed to the lumber yard/cafe and then headed to a grocery store to find a post office so that… Read More »Travel Home Day 1
Day 4 in Ireland. This was the actual day of the game. We weren’t exactly sure how to get into the game. The stadium is in the middle of a neighborhood and doesn’t really have much parking next to it. We knew we were going to take a train, but… Read More »Ireland Day 4: Part 1
The first day of October! No better day to share THE SELFIE PROJECT images from September. I freely confessed that I struggled with the project this month. Often forgetting to take my selfie until the last minute. I was insanely busy for parts of September, but I didn’t really go… Read More »Selfie Project – September 2025
DAMAGED! What a great theme! But did enough people find something roughed up to make it a popular theme? As of 12:01 PM on Monday, September 8, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe – 1 week*2-Mary Green – 1 week*3-Sabas Hernandez – 1 week4-Jesse Howard –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 522 – DAMAGED
It is time to once again to clean up some of the backlog. This is a collection of images that I like, but never really fit into a previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entry. Most of these images were alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Here are the pictures: It always… Read More »I’m a Weirdo
Time to show the rest of the pictures from trip to Briggs Woods Park. Have a look: It was a nice little hike. I’ll have to do it again at some point.
Back in November I journeyed up to Briggs Woods Park to take a look at their waterfall. It was cold and not super colorful, but I managed to snap some pictures. Have a look: Still one more collection of pictures from this trip to share!
Back in October I took not one, but two road trips to try some tenderloins. First I went to Manning to try the Best Tenderloin in Iowa for 2023. Then I went to Dunlap to try the Best Tenderloin in Iowa for 2024. But I also poked around each town… Read More »Tenderloining Auxiliary Images
Time to clean out the backlog a bit. These pictures are from August of last year and never really fit into any previous posts. Some are from Jefferson. The rest are of the South Marion Methodist Church. A friend of mine is the Pastor there and I didn’t even know… Read More »When I’m Not Around
Andy, a railroader since way back, taught me a word a few years back. The term: foamers. It is a derogatory term used by railroaders to describe railfans. The term comes the belief that railfans gets so excited when they see a train, they begin to foam at the mouth.… Read More »Big Boy: Foamers
Last time we looked at Big Boy pictures, it was just starting to fire up and leave Boone. I was camped on top of the Iowa 17 bridge that goes over the railroad tracks and Old 30. Here is the next collection of images: The last few images were taken… Read More »Big Boy: Leaving Boone
I followed the Big Boy for a bit as it left Boone. It didn’t leave Boone on time, so sitting and waiting for it took a lot longer than I expected. I at first took some pictures looking south as they prepared it to leave, then I camped on top… Read More »Big Boy: Boone Morning
I haven’t shared any picture I took for THE BOONE ART CENTER PROJECT since October. During the winter months it is a little harder to track down these images. With the dawn of spring, hopefully it won’t be so many months before I can share a Gallery Eleven. If you… Read More »Boone Art Center Gallery Ten
This is the final collection of images from my trip to New Orleans. There really shouldn’t have been that many. I got up early and went for a brief walk cause there was this Little Debbie mural I saw that I wanted to photograph. I can’t remember exactly when our… Read More »New Orleans Day 7: Southwest Failure
Time to share the rest of the pictures of the Big Boy as it stopped in Boone for the night. I like many of these images of the maintenance crew working on the Big Boy and of people just coming to look at it. Something that really struck me while… Read More »Big Boy: Boone Stop
So the Big Boy didn’t stay in Carroll as long as it was supposed to. Then on top of it, getting out of the parking lot near the Carroll depot was a disaster. I bet the Big Boy was halfway to Jefferson before I even got out of the parking… Read More »Big Boy: On to Boone