After getting back from the City Hall area I wander around the Reading Terminal for a bit and then eventually met up with Lowell and we did something super touristy. I say that without shame, but with pride. I’ve always wanted to ride one of those double decker tour buses,… Read More »Philadelphia Day 2: Bus Tour
As I prepare to share another collection of images from the pro-democracy rally I attended back in April, I can’t help but think about the affordability crisis that is facing our country right now and the large list of layoffs that are coming our way: Just some recent layoff announcements:… Read More »Mutual Aid Rally IV
It is week 2 of Advent and I would once again like to light a virtual calendar and use the script for it from the book we are using for our Advent Season at Boone First United Methodist Church this year. The book is “The Redemption of Scrooge” by Matt… Read More »I Scream: Decorah Field Work
Day 2 in Philadelphia was supposed to be the first day of work. It wasn’t real clear in the early morning if we would work or when we would work. It was dependent on when the contractors got finished putting the Computer Mine Booth together. Fortunately for us, they didn’t… Read More »Philadelphia Day 2: City Hall
Time to share another collection of images from the pro-democracy rally I attended back in April. Here is that collection: Still more pictures to share from the rally. Maybe by the time I share the next collection Whiskey Pete will have been forced to resign. I won’t hold my breath… Read More »Mutual Aid Rally III
It is something I’d like to say I do every year, but I don’t. But I’m going to try this year. And that thing is to light a candle every Sunday during Advent Season. A virtual candle. Yes, but still a candle. So this week we are lighting the Peace… Read More »Big Pizza Pie: Decorah Field Work
This is the final collection of images from Day 1 of my work trip to Philadelphia. Lowell and I were still at Geno’s and this collection will finish up at Geno’s. Although there are plenty of images in this collection of Pat’s. I wasn’t sure I would actually make it… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Rest of Geno’s
A reminder that if you are looking for a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, the Boone First United Methodist Church is hosting one. And it’s free! All the information you need to know is below: With turkey prices up 25% this year and the average Thanksgiving meal up 4.1%, there will… Read More »Mutual Aid Rally II
A reminder that if you are looking for a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, the Boone First United Methodist Church is hosting one. And it’s free! All the information you need to know is below: With turkey prices up 25% this year and the average Thanksgiving meal up 4.1%, there will… Read More »Baby, Time Meant Nothin’
Back in June I took a road trip up to Arnolds Park to visit the Stenslands at the Lake House. As an added bonus Sabas, Elainie, and Elawyn were up there. While Jason and Sabas were off playing gross golf, the rest of us went to a restaurant on the… Read More »#LakeLife: Arnolds Park Field Work
At the end of the last collection Lowell and I were wandering around Chinatown. In this collection we will finish up in Chinatown and then move on to the famous Philly Cheesesteak Square. Home of Geno’s Steaks and Pat’s King of Steaks. 2 of the most famous cheesesteaks in all… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: On to Cheesesteak Square
Can you believe that this is the 5,750th 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 5,750
When we last visited the collection of images from Day 1 of my trip to Philadelphia, Lowell and I had just left the Independence Hall area. In this collection we will go by the cemetery where Benjamin Franklin is buried on our way to Chinatown. Here are the pictures: If… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Walk to Chinatown
Back on April 19, I had a big photography day. I went to Pella to do a little tulip flowertography. And I closed out the day at Iowa State University taking pictures of Virgil, the owl living in the Lagomarcino courtyard. But in between those two photo sessions, I went… Read More »Mutual Aid Rally I
Now it is time to begin sharing the collection of cruddy cell phone pictures of the trip home from Ireland to the Cyclone State. We got up in the morning and headed to the lumber yard/cafe and then headed to a grocery store to find a post office so that… Read More »Travel Home Day 1
Earlier in the year I took a solo trip up to Clear Lake for their annual kite festival known as Color the Wind. I was unsure if I was going to make the trip as the weather was a little dodgy in the early morning, but I decided to at… Read More »Color the Wind 2025 – I
Back in April I went to Philadelphia for several days on a trip for the Computer Mine. The first day was a travel day, so after I got to Philadelphia, the rest of the day was really mine. After I got checked in to my hotel Lowell and l I… Read More »Philadelphia Day 1: Walkabout Begins
There aren’t many cruddy cell phone pictures from Day 6, the last day in Ireland to share. One of the things we did was far too dangerous to have a cell phone out. It wasn’t dangerous for us, but a cell phone would have definitely gotten lost. Plus I definitely… Read More »Ireland Day 6
This is it. The final collection of images from my work trip to Austin, Texas. When we left off last Friday, we were walking around the Texas State Capitol. We will begin inside the Capitol and the rest of the pictures are from the walk back to the hotel. Once… Read More »Austin Day 5: The Walk Back
Last time we left off we were walking to the stadium for the game. Our good friends from the Luas told us to just follow the canal and we would get there. We should have followed their advice. We followed the canal most of the way, but then we started… Read More »Ireland Day 4: Part 2
The last collection of images I shared from the Iowa State-Iowa game were pictures from around the Big Noon set. This collection of images are from the Spirit Walk. Here are some pictures: Still one more collection of images from this pre-game left to share. Maybe next Saturday.