Continuing down the road of my 2025 Christmas experience today. This was what I would consider my final Christmas event. Going to Reiman Gardens for Winter Wonderscape. Here is the first collection of images from the event: Still one more collection of images from this sweet event left to share.
Time to share the cell phone pictures from Day 3 of the Route 66 Road Trip – Phase 1. We started the morning at the Meramec Caverns Campground. It had rained all night. In the morning it was nice and cool. We had breakfast at the Meramec Caverns diner as… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 3 Snaps
Time to share the rest of the pictures I took at a pro democracy rally in Ames with Jen on January 10. Hard to believe that since this rally, gas prices are up $1.30 a gallon. Ground beef has gone up to almost $7 a pound. Steak is over $13… Read More »Rise Above the Chaos
By the time this publishes, I will have my entries for the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon in my possession. So I can reveal what pictures I entered this year. Here they are: Selected for Display Not selected for Display Selected for Display Not Selected for Display Next year I… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 2 Snaps
Back in January I attended a pro democracy rally in Ames with Jen. This was shortly after ICE agents had murdered Renee Nicole Good, mother of three and poet in the streets of Minneapolis. Here are some pictures from the rally: Here is a list of people that have been… Read More »Ice Off Our Streets
Our last stop up on the North Atlantic Coast before heading for our hotel was Carrick-a-Rede. This is a place that is most famous for a rope bridge that is suspended over the Atlantic Ocean. Here is some information about it from the National Trust website: The famous Carrick-a-Rede rope… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Carrick-a-Rede
I realize now that I never really announced how I did at the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon this year. Here is the card they sent: I got two in. If you are looking for them at the Fair, 1 is a Black and White Place. I think the other… Read More »WPC – WEEK 570 – I CAN’T EVEN
A couple of weeks back Andy and I hit the open road in an attempt to drive half of the Mother Road. Route 66. America’s highway! While I took a ton of pictures with the “real” camera, I’m not ready to show those. Not by a long shot Chet. But… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 1 Snaps
After Andy and I left the Giant’s Causeway, we ended up in a nearby village named Bushmills. We wander it’s business district for a bit as we killed time before we went to our next destination. Which was another grueling workout. But more on that in the future. Here are… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Bushmills
A few weeks back Jay, Jesse, Willy, and I headed up to Decorah for a foodie double header. Our first stop was to try the reigning Best Burger in the Cyclone State at Dixie’s Biergarten. We also went to Luna Valley Farm, but I will not be covering that trip… Read More »Burgertime: Decorah Field Work
This is the final collection of images I took while Andy and I visited the Giant’s Causeway. But it is far from the final collection of images I took on Day 2 of our trip to Ireland. Here are more pictures: Hey jerk, you are standing in my light… oh… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Leaving the Causeway
Last year I went down to the Madrid Labor Day Festival to check out the now defunct competitive barbecue team Tall & Meaty as they competitively barbecued. I wasn’t able to stick around for very long, but I did take a few pictures of the annual Civil War re-enactment before… Read More »We Practice Selective Annihilation
ANXIETY! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, July 27, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Ernie Redd – 1 week*2-Mary Green – 2 weeks3-Jason Baier – 6 weeks4-Monica Jennings –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 568 – ANXIETY
Time to share the a final collection of images from Pufferbilly Days Saturday last year. The collection starts at the parade and ends at the mullet and mustache contest. Here is the final collection: I still have Sunday Art in the Park pictures to share from last year’s Pufferbilly Days.… Read More »Pufferbilly Days Saturday III
Last Friday when we left off, had left the Giant’s Causeway part of the Giant’s Causeway and were starting the trail to The Amphitheatre. This part was a fantastic workout! We definitely got our steps in on this day! And this wasn’t the last trail we would hit up. Here… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Amphitheatre Trail
Last February I made a trip into Reiman Gardens to see another stinky flower. This one named “Smelly Roll” is not as large as “Stink Floyd”. But it still had a pretty terrible odor. I also ducked into the butterfly garden and took a couple of pictures of some beautiful… Read More »Somebody Save Me
If things have broken correctly, I am somewhere on the open road right now. Possibly Missouri or Kansas or Oklahoma or maybe even Texas. So I am nowhere near a computer and even if I was, I wouldn’t have the slightest inclination to stop and put together a post of… Read More »Week 568 Theme Reveal
A few Saturdays back Carla, Teresa, and I loaded up in the RAV4 and went to Clinton to do some troll hunting. On the way we stopped for breakfast at the Sunrise Café in Le Grand, Iowa. We decided to stop there because it was on a list of “8… Read More »Breakfast Club: Le Grand Field Work
Can you believe that this is the 6,000th entry in the blog known as “An Artist’s Notebook”? Every 250 posts or so I like to take a moment to reflect on where this post has been and post a lot of meaningless stats. As always on these posts, I like… Read More »Post 6,000
CIRCLE! A great theme! But was it a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out! As of 12:01 PM on Monday, July 6, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: 1-Brandon Kahler – 1 week2-Jason Baier – 3 weeks3-Sabas Hernandez – 3 weeks4-Monica Jennings –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 565 – CIRCLE
After church a few weeks ago I took Brandon out for lunch for assisting with getting Morris, my 4 foot concrete alligator in place in my front yard. We went to Daisy’s Dog House in Ames. Logan, Dahlia, Jonah, and Andy all came along as well. Here are some cell… Read More »Hot Dog! Ames Field Work