Here is another collection of images from my trip to New York City with Jesse. It wasn’t exactly to visit my cousin Sarah, but that was really the highlight of the trip.
By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory:
Next Saturday’s walk down memory lane will still include more New York City.
Several weeks back Logan and Brandon accompanied me on a town sign harvesting trip to Cass County Iowa. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from that trip:
Anita
Wiota
Cumberland
Griswold
Cold Springs State Park
I do want to point out that I do not venerate Jesse James. Many criminals in our history our venerated. Some deserve it. Some do not. Jesse James was a trash human being that shouldn’t be thought of as a hero.
There is still another collection of images to come from this amazing road trip to and through Cass County.
Here is the balance of images from my road trip with Jesse to harvest the town signs of Cerro Gordo and Worth County:
Rock Falls
Plymouth
Grafton
Legend has it this place has great chicken!
Bolan
Kensett
Northwood
Manly
I love the part about the town of Bolan being on David Letterman. Even the people of Bolan’s suburbs. Bolan is an unincorporated community, for the record.
Here is the second collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Hancock County back several weeks ago:
Crystal Lake
Woden
Forest City
I’ve decided to start incorporating hobo signs into my everyday communication. There is one more collection of Hancock County pictures still to come.
Here is a second collection of auxiliary images I took while harvesting the town signs of Warren County with Shannon.
New Virginia
Couldn’t quite figure out what this was…
This is one of the most enigmatic things I’ve come across in my travels. It was just there. No explanation. Nobody monitoring it. Nothing else around it.
Shannon really wanted to take this picture.
You didn’t know The 4 Wheel Drive was invented in Iowa, did you?
St Marys
They must’ve heard I was coming to town.
87 wins in a row! That is impressive!
88 wins in a row! That is even more impressive!
The streak was 88 wins in a row. It was eventually ended by Des Moines East, which is a school that has more students than St Marys and Martensdale has people combined.
About that 4 Wheel Drive, Here is the story from the Des Moines Concours website:
At the 2020 Des Moines Concours, we’re honoring the Iowa roots of 4-wheel drive. Our 4×4 and 4-Wheel Drive Class pays tribute to the foundational work of Jesse Livingood in creating a 4-wheel drive attachment for a Ford automobile in 1914.
At the time, Iowa’s road system covered a good portion of the state. Roads, particularly in rural Iowa, were little more than graded dirt. Iowa’s “gravel bees” in 1916 and 1917 saw the first concerted efforts by communities to make huge improvements of these roads.
Livingood lived in New Virginia, Iowa and ran his repair shop out of an empty corn crib on the family farm. He tinkered as he sought to improve traction, reduce wear, and lower the running costs of driving on Iowa’s roads and around the farm. This led him to develop a bolt-on 4-wheel drive system that he fitted to a Ford Model T. The system could be mounted to any Ford chassis in three to four hours, and would provide braking on all corners and sure footing in mud, sand, and snow or any other inclement weather Iowa could muster.
Livingood is credited for many more inventions including the “pulley and ball” thrust bearing, the differential transmission, the speed governor, two- and four-cylinder steam engines, and the four-wheel brake system. Sadly, due to errors at the U.S. Patent Office, Livingood did not profit from his inventions and lived a modest life.
There will be one more collection of Warren County pictures.
This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is PASSION:
PASSION! What a great theme for Year 8 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!
But what is a PASSION picture? First we need to establish the difference between love and PASSION. What separates PASSION from love isn’t just a warm feeling about something or somebody. PASSION is what you are willing to suffer for. That is why the movie is called THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST not THE WARM FUZZIES OF THE CHRIST. Because Jesus’ love for us was so intense that he was willing to suffer for us. In the theme reveal picture it shows the result of Jesus’ PASSION for us as he has been lowered from the cross into Mary’s arms after being tortured to death for our sins. I’m sure there are many things in your life that you love. But this challenge asks you to take a picture of something you love so much that you are willing to suffer for it. Remember though the PASSION in your submission doesn’t have to be your own. It can be somebody else’s PASSION as well.
Happy photo harvesting!
A few weeks back I travelled around Warren County with Shannon harvesting the town signs of Warren County. Here is the first collection of auxiliary images from that trip:
Ackworth
Beech
Milo
This would be a great idea for people like my neighbor Stan.
I love that Milo took memorial benches up to an 11!
Lacona – Breakfast purchased the day before at Rinehart’s.
Liberty Center
The Town Sign Project Auxiliary Images gallery now houses over 1,000 images! To take a gander, click on the link below:
There is at least one more collection of images from this trip coming. Probably two.
A few weeks back I tooled around Butler County with Carla harvesting their town signs. I’ve already shared pictures from the beautiful garden in New Hartford. This is a collection of other images I took on the trip.
Aplington
I have questions about the hours.
Parkersburg
New Hartford
Shell Rock
I’m not on Boone’s Art Council and I am not privy to their budget or plans, but I think something they could do that would be cool would be to restore the old faded advertising murals in Boone. You can see how cool they look in Shell Rock. There are at least 2 in Boone I can think of off the top of my head that haven’t been painted over that would look great repainted.
There will be one more collection of pictures from Butler County in the future.
This is the third and final collection of images I took while harvesting the town signs of Sac County and Ida County. However all of these pictures were taken in Pocahontas County, Webster County, and Hamilton County.
Fonda
Palmer
Fort Dodge
Stanhope
I have a feeling that werewolves drive a pretty hard bargain when selling cars.
The next county to share auxiliary images from is Butler County. Flowertography haters be warned, we came across an amazing garden there!
Several weeks back on went on a road trip where I harvested the balance of town signs I needed for Calhoun County and also crossed over to Sac County to grab a few of theirs. I like to always harvest a few extra signs on these trips. I still do, but I also now am taking a different tact for choosing what counties I am harvesting that I think will speed up the process a bit. The changes have made a difference I do believe. But that is a story for another day.
Here are the auxiliary images I took on my road trip to Calhoun and Sac County:
Pomeroy
Jolley
Rockwell City
Lytton
Sac City
I’m really far behind in sharing auxiliary images. I should get on that, maybe someday when my schedule opens up a little bit.
A few weekends back I tooled around Humboldt County and harvested their town sign. Here is a collection of some of the auxiliary images I took on this road trip, including some I took as I went back south threw Calhoun County.
Renwick
LuVerne
Livermore
Ottosen
Rutland
Gilmore City
Pioneer
Somers?
Rinard
Lohrville
The next set of auxiliary images to share will mostly come from Calhoun County.
