I hope all of you had a marvelous Thanksgiving weekend! I had a particularly great Thanksgiving weekend myself. On Thursday morning I got up and went down to the church (Boone First United Methodist represent!) to take photos of our annual Thanksgiving. This is the second year in a row… Read More »Relationship Goals
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Rather than my standard picture of an inflatable turkey, thought (with apologies to Lecrae, I’d give thanks for some of the many blessings in my life. Count it up, count it up, count it up. Line ’em up, line ’em up, line ’em up. Blessed with a… Read More »Won’t Take that Credit; I know Where We Get It; Them Blessings Be Comin’ from God Above
This huge collection of photos was found in the folder called 01-01-08: I don’t know if it the holidays or recently seeing some old friends, or a recent death to a close relation of a very close friend or if it is just because it is that time of year,… Read More »01-08-08
Here is a collection of photos from 3 Methodist events. The Event Formerly Known as the Methodist Men Steak Fry, Safe Trick-or-Treat Night at the Eastern Star Home, and Consecration Sunday Brunch. One of the bizarre things about the world of social media is that bizarre things happen. I posted… Read More »A Methodist Trio
You can tell the year is starting to wind down. I don’t feel I did the best work on THE SELFIE PROJECT in October. It admittedly wasn’t the busiest month of the year for me, but I still had plenty of things go down. I’ll have to try to do… Read More »Selfie Project – October
A month or so back, my church (Boone First United Methodist Church, represent!) had their annual-ish summer is over kickoff party. So it doesn’t really have a name. But a bunch of Methodists get together at Herman Park and throw down some food and have a good time. Here are… Read More »Ain’t No Party Like a Methodist Party!
I might have posted these pictures earlier, but up until Saturday it still made me sick to think about how Iowa State blew a double digit to an inferior team from the other side of the state. Then Saturday happened. After Iowa State’s historic road victory over the #3 team… Read More »Time Doesn’t Heal Anything, It Just Teaches Us How to Live with the Pain
Here is your weekly reminder that this week’s theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE is ART: ART ART! Such a great theme! But what is ART? I’m partial to the definition of Marc Chagall: Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REMINDER – ART
A big thanks to everybody that came out and made my church’s Youth Group Fundraiser such a big hit. Our goal was to be #1 on the Pizza Ranch board and we nearly doubled the take of the previous #1! Here are a few cruddy cell phone pictures from last… Read More »Move ‘Em On, Head ‘Em Up, Head ‘Em Up, Move ‘Em On, Rawhide!
Here is a look back at my favorite September photos from THE SELFIE PROJECT: September 1 September 2 September 6 September 7 September 10 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 20 September 21 September 23 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 And if… Read More »The Selfie Project – September
HEY!!! Don’t forget!! Tomorrow night!! The Youth Group at my church is having a fundraiser for their annual Mission Trip at the Boone Pizza Ranch! This is an idea of what you will be supporting: All you need to do is show up between 5-8 tomorrow night with one of… Read More »Pizza Ranch Fundraiser Reminder
Another week of good submissions for this week’s theme of WHITE. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Angie DeWaard Shannon Bardole Sheri Fakhouri Christopher D. Bennett Sheri Fakhouri Sheri Fakhouri Sarah Karber Tamara Peterson Tamara… Read More »WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 107 – WHITE
Looking for a chance to give to a good cause and eat completely edible food? Then do I have an opportunity for you! Next Wednesday (October 4, 2017) the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group will be having a fundraiser to help pay for their mission trip to a… Read More »The Only Thing I Fear is the IRS and God
Since we are a few weeks deep into Youth Group Season and we will have a fundraiser coming up in the near future, thought I would share a few pictures from the first Youth Group from a few weeks back. We had a Photo Scavenger Hunt: Seems like a great… Read More »The Most Righteous of Birds
The following photos didn’t have what it takes to make the cut for the RUINS theme for the WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: If only these pictures believed in themselves, there is no telling what they might accomplish!
Once a year at my church we have Critter Sunday. On Critter Sunday people bring in their pets to get blessed. I took some photos and then after Naima got blessed Jaxon Schoff took over and finished up the event. Here are some photos from the event: Special thanks to… Read More »Critter Sunday – 2017
On a recent trip to Algona with Joe we made a stop in West Bend and I knocked out Page 5 of THE PHOTO JOURNAL PROJECT: Page 5 – Go somewhere really touristy and take nontouristy pictures. Here are a few of the pictures I took but didn’t select to… Read More »A Photo Journal – Henry Carroll – Page 5
A couple of Sundays ago my church said goodbye to our Choir Director David Sponder and our Nursery Directory Erica Melhaus. I was tasked with taking a few photos. Here are a few of those photos: David accepted a teaching position in northwest Iowa. Erica will be attending on of… Read More »Farewell to David and Erica!
Here we are in August and I haven’t checked back into THE SELFIE PROJECT for the month of June. Here are some of favorites from June: June 2 June 5 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 13 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 18 June 20… Read More »Selfie Project – June
Here are a few images from a selection of folders from the month of September 2007. Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will involve some night photography!
This last collection of Saint Paul Mission Trip photo were taken by other people, but I’m not sure what day they were taken. Enjoy! It truly was an incredible trip and transformative trip! If you ever have a chance to go, GO! You will not regret it. Not even when… Read More »Saint Paul Mission Trip – Misc.
