Today is Logan’s birthday, so I need to wish him a happy birthday. Happy birthday Logan! I hope your birthday is filled with many photo opportunities and barbecue opportunities! +++++++ Today is also Derrick’s birthday. So… happy birthday Derrick! I hope your birthday is filled with as much joy and… Read More »Lee & Van Buren County Aux. – Vol. 5
Another chance to clean up the backlog. These pictures were taken in October of last year but never really fit into any “An Artist’s Notebook” entries. Some were alternate images for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Some, I just took when I was out and about. Always feels good to get… Read More »But I Don’t Think That’s True
Time for another collection of images I took while harvesting the town signs of Lee County and Van Buren County. This collection begins in Lee County and then ends in Van Buren County. This reminds me, who wants to hit up Stanhope Watermelon Day with me? July 15! Keokuk I… Read More »Lee & Van Buren County Aux. – Vol. 3
Time for another collection of images from my road trip to Lee County and Van Buren County to harvest their town signs. All of these pictures are taken in Lee County. West Point West Point has a badass window painter. So I think this is badass. There are scores of… Read More »Lee & Van Buren County Aux. – Vol. 2
2019. 2019! That was the last time that the Methodist Men held a pie auction. A lot of lasts happened in that year. Most things have come back. But the Methodist Men Pie Auction was not one of them. Until last Sunday. For the first time in 4 years the… Read More »Methodist Men Pie Auction – 2023
Back in August I took the Camry out on the open road to harvest the town signs of Lee County and Van Buren County. It was one of the longest trips I made on THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT. I left my house at 6:41 AM and returned at 8:31 PM.… Read More »Lee & Van Buren County Aux. – Vol. 1
Time for another collection of images from when Teresa and I made a road trip to Henry County & Jefferson County to harvest their town signs. Many of the pictures in this collection were actually taken in Van Buren County. Mount Pleasant Salem Hillsboro Stockport Fairfield There is still one… Read More »Henry & Jefferson County Aux. – Vol. 3
Time for another collection of images from my road trip to harvest the town signs of Henry and Jefferson County I took with Teresa. The majority of these pictures were taken in Mount Pleasant. We met up with Doug and Jodie for lunch in Mount Pleasant. Afterwards, Doug went back… Read More »Henry & Jefferson County Aux. – Vol. 2
Since my trip to Chicago I know I have missed celebrating a few birthdays on this website, but the bleeding stops today. Happy birthday to my awesome sister-in-law and fellow Brandi Carlile fan Becca! I hope you have a birthday that is as tremendous as you are! Lots of Brandi… Read More »Muscatine County Aux. – Vol. 5
Time for yet another collection of images from my road trip to Muscatine County to harvest their town signs. At this point on the trip, I had left Wildcat Den State Park and rolled into Muscatine. All of the pictures in this collection were taken in Muscatine. I once entered… Read More »Muscatine County Aux. – Vol. 4
Today is Easter, so happy Easter! Happy Easter! Rather than trying to write something about Easter, I thought I would just borrow a devotional written by the Bishop of the Iowa Methodist churches about fish. In Death, Shedding Life By Bishop Kennetha Bigham-Tsai Episcopal Leader, Iowa Annual Conference of the… Read More »The Infamous Tenderloin Tripleheader
Okay, so that journal title is highly inappropriate. Last night our Good Friday worship service was a Tenebrae worship service. The Good Friday worship service is the most somber service of the year, as it “celebrate” Jesus’ crucifixion. Both the Maundy Thursday service and the Good Friday service combined the… Read More »Tenebrae Good Times!
Today is Good Friday. I wish those who celebrate, a good Good Friday. Matthew 27:32-56 32-34 Along the way they came on a man from Cyrene named Simon and made him carry Jesus’ cross. Arriving at Golgotha, the place they call “Skull Hill,” they offered him a mild painkiller (a… Read More »Viva Las Vegas: Day 3B
Today is Maundy Thursday. I hope this Thursday is the maundiest Thursday you have ever had. And if you know what maundy means, you know that sentence is nonsense. But joyful nonsense. If you are not familiar with Maundy Thursday, let me explain. Pull up a chair, but don’t get… Read More »Heart’s Content
About the time this publishes Iowa’s (yes there is another university in the Cyclone State) women’s basketball team will be tipping off against Louisville for a chance to play in the first Final Four for any Iowa university since 1993. In that year, the Iowa women’s basketball team made it… Read More »Methodist Grillin’
Time to start sharing the next collection of images from my road trip to Wapello County to harvest their town signs. I didn’t spend that much time in Ottumwa because I’ve done some time in Ottumwa back in the day. But I did take a few pictures there. Chillicothe Blakesburg… Read More »Wapello County Aux. – Vol. 1
I need to start today by wishing Carla a happy birthday. Happy birthday Carla! I hope your birthday is as full of as much joy as you can handle! +++++++ I also need to wish Monica a happy birthday. Happy birthday Monica! I also hope your birthday is as full… Read More »Clayton County Aux. – Vol. 6
Time once again to share some auxiliary images from my road trip to Clayton County to harvest their town signs several months back. Clayton County is a beautiful county and I would like to visit again this year. We will have to see how my life goes. But I think… Read More »Clayton County Aux. – Vol. 5
Time once again to share a collection of images from my road trip through Clayton County to harvest their town signs. Most of these are taken in Guttenberg, which is beautiful little river town. I’d love to spend more time there at some point in the future and really give… Read More »Clayton County Aux. – Vol. 4
Time for another collection of pictures from my road trip to harvest the town signs of Clayton County I took last July. Finally, in this collection, there are pictures from Clayton County. Although the first few are still in Dubuque County. Balltown North Buena Vista A 2023 goal is to… Read More »Clayton County Aux. – Vol. 3
Time to share another collection of images from my road trip to harvest the town signs of Clayton County that I took back in July. These images were once again, all taken in Dubuque County. That area of the state, Clayton County, Allamakee County, and Dubuque County is the prettiest… Read More »Clayton County Aux. – Vol. 2