Happy Easter! Christ is risen! CHRIST IS RISEN INDEED! Here is an Easter devotional and a bit on the history of a popular Easter hymn. At least in the Methodist church. Risen today! A Wesley hymn devotion for Easter
Today is Maundy Thursday, so I wish all of you a happy Maundy Thursday with the following picture: Maundy Thursday commemorates Jesus Christ’s Last Supper with his disciples. The Last Supper was a Passover meal and so we continue to celebrate that through communion with unleavened bread and a grape… Read More »Lady
This is Holy Week, so I did want you to know that if you need or want a place to worship or just check out, well you are invited to the Boone First United Methodist Church. For details, check out the picture below: I’ll definitely be there for Maundy Thursday,… Read More »RAGBRAI – MADRID – III
A reminder, you still have less than 23 hours to join my NCAA Tournament Pool. If you are a basketball fan, or are just interested in having fun, click on the link below to join my pool:
Today is Andy’s birthday so I have to wish him a happy birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDY! I hope your day is filled with 17 hour old tenderloins! +++++++ It is Lent! During Lent I like to hit a Fish Fry here and there. Which gives me the added benefit of… Read More »Fisher of Men: Boone Field Work
Today is a rare double holiday. It is both Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. As always, if you are not out romancing it up tonight, I invite you to come to the Boone First United Methodist Church for our Ash Wednesday service. Full disclosure, I won’t be there. I am… Read More »RAGBRAI – LUTHER
Back in July when I went up to hang out with my Minnesota family, I made a stop at George Perry Floyd Square to just see it, experience it, and photograph it. It was one of the most powerful experiences I had in 2023. If you don’t know what George… Read More »George Perry Floyd Square – I
I am definitely starting to run low on food adventures, but I think that there are a few on my horizon. This food adventure took place in November. I cruised down to a state park near Winterset cause it was on my list of places I wanted to see in… Read More »I Scream: Winterset Field Work
A couple Sundays back my church honored our Building Engineer. He retired after 43 years with our church. Which is amazing when you think about it. Yesterday was my 18th anniversary with the computer mine. I can’t imagine working another 18 years there. Let alone another 25 years. Wow! I… Read More »And You’ll Be the One Who’s Crying
Time to share the rest of the images that were rejected for the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. Some of these are similar to ones included in the calendar. They come from a wide range of projects. From auxiliary images from THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT to alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »2024 Photography 139 Calendar Rejects: The Ending
SUNDAY MORNING. Everybody has one. But did many people take a picture on SUNDAY MORNING or a picture that suggests SUNDAY MORNING to make it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, January 1, this was the current list… Read More »WPC – WEEK 434 – SUNDAY MORNING
Time to share the final image for the 2024 Photography 139 Calendar. The December image. It is an image of an abandoned (methinks) church I found in northeast Iowa on a THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT road trip: DECEMBER I chose this image for December because I usually like to either… Read More »2024 Photography 139 Calendar Rejects: The Beginning
Friendly Reminder: Next Monday is New Year’s Day. While the bank and government employees get the day off, there are no holidays for Photography 139. If you are busy around the New Year’s holidays (and a lot of people are) plan on getting your submission in early this week. +++++++… Read More »WPC – WEEK 432 – GREEN
Happy Christmas Eve everybody! Christmas Eve Worship Service is my favorite worship service of the year. I hope you had/have a magical Christmas Eve. +++++++ A couple of months ago Jesse and I hit the Tenderloin Trail 2.0 for Friday Night Supper Club. We drove all the way to New… Read More »Tenderloin Trail 2.0: New Hampton Field Work
Sunday was the Christmas Pageant at Boone First United Methodist Church. I think it was the first one that we’ve had since the pandemic, but I could be wrong about that. The play the kids put on was call “The Three Wise Guys” and told the story of how a… Read More »Boone FUMC Christmas Pageant
Time to clean out the April backlog. Lots of pictures that didn’t quite make their way into previous “An Artist’s Notebook” entries. Including some that were alternates for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE and some that were taken in Jester Park and some at the end of a flowertography road trip.… Read More »‘Cause Someday I’ll Be Everything to Somebody Else
On Thanksgiving I took Rodan139 out for a very brief spin to take some pictures of the Boone First United Methodist Church’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner. It was very brief as Rodan139 was constantly be harassed by a flock of birds (the same flock of birds I photographed for my ANIMAL… Read More »Rodan139: Boone FUMC Thanksgiving
I realize now that I forgot to wish people a Happy Thanksgiving yesterday. I don’t have a picture that represents Thanksgiving to me this year, but I do hope that everybody had a good Thanksgiving! I had a pretty good one. Enough of one that I am going to have… Read More »Boone FUMC Thanksgiving 2023
Today is Suzie’s birthday. So I need to wish her a happy birthday! Happy birthday Suzie! Suzie is the short one in the picture, in case you didn’t know! I hope you have an amazing birthday! +++++++ Time to share more pictures from the road trip I took with Nader… Read More »PHOTO DROP-OFF ROAD TRIP II
If you or somebody you know is looking for a Thanksgiving Meal, my church is having it’s annual FREE Thanksgiving Meal again this year. Check out the flyer below for information: I should be there for at least part of it. Hope to see some of you there! +++++++ This… Read More »Photo Drop-off Road Trip I
Here it is. The final collection of auxiliary images I took during THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. Finally being shared almost 14 months after I took them. Closing the book on pictures I took in 2022. To be honest there is one last collection of pictures I took in 2022, but… Read More »Davis County Aux. – Vol. 4