REMINDER: TODAY IS THE DAY. ONE OF TWO DAY. IT IS YOUR CHANCE TO SUGGEST THEMES FOR NEXT YEAR’S THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE! YOU CAN DO THAT IN ONE WAY AND ONE WAY ONLY. BY LEAVING YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS WEEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE POST. DON’T SEND… Read More »WPC – WEEK 580 – BLACK & WHITE
We left Belfast in time to get back to Dublin for the Iowa State pep rally. I had told Andy it didn’t really matter to me if we made it back for the pep rally. I’ve attended many a Cyclone Pep Rally in my day. Including some for bowl games… Read More »Ireland Day 3: ISUCFVMB
While I’m getting close to having shared almost all the images from 2025 that aren’t from Ireland I looked back to make sure I had shared all of the 2024 photos. I knew I hadn’t shared the images from the 2024 Howard Family Photo Shoot. I’ve just been putting that… Read More »Puffer Float Prep – 2024
Back on January 25 I attended a vigil remembering the victims murdered by government agents in the streets of Minneapolis. It was a freezing cold day, but the vigil was still well attended at Bandshell Park in Ames. Here are some pictures of the event: That was 9 months ago… Read More »Vigil
This collection of pictures mostly consists of the last of the Belfast Peace Wall pictures. But it also includes pictures I took at a gas station on our way back to Dublin. We wanted to get back to Dublin for the Iowa State pep rally that was going on that… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Back to Dublin
Last Friday we left off with Andy and I walking around the Peace Lines/Wall in Belfast. We walked down Cupar Way. This collection will continue down Cupar Way and then start on the murals that are on Northumberland Street. Have a looksie: Preach! Too bad we’ve destroyed most of the… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Belfast Peace Lines
Time to clear out the backlog again. This is a collection of pictures I took between September and December of last year. They are decent pictures, but never really or never will fit into an “Artist’s Notebook” post. Some are from downtown Boone. Some are from Iowa State basketball. Some… Read More »A Victim of Laughing Chance
After we left the Titanic Museum our next step before heading back to Dublin was to visit the Peace Walls. If you don’t know what the Peace Walls are, here is some info: The peace lines or peace walls are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that separate… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Belfast Peace Walls
Time for the final collection of pictures I took of the construction of the new arch that greets you as you enter or exit (depending what direction you are going) the downtown Boone business district. Gaze your eyes on the final collection: Looking at these pictures is an unwelcome reminder… Read More »Try Boone You’ll Stay
I made 3 trips to the Iowa State Fair this year. They were the same traditional trips I seem to make every year. 1 trip to see the O’Gorshes dance. 1 trip to assist a team with the barbecue contest. 1 trip to pick up my photo contest entries. My… Read More »ISF 2026 Food: Trip 1
Last Friday when we left off Andy and I had boarded the final remaining White Star Line ship in existence. The Nomadic. This collection will be the final collection of images from the area of the Titanic Museum, but very far from the end of the Day 3 images. Very… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Nomadic
Last Wednesday I started sharing images of the construction of the new arch in Boone. When we left off, I was still wandering around taking pictures on my lunchbreak. But this collection will end after I came back after work to see the finished product. To my surprise, it wasn’t… Read More »…You’ll Stay
We woke up in a hotel in Oklahoma City. It was one of those sweet spot hotels that had free breakfast. We knocked down some tasty vittles and then hit the open road for our final day on Route 66. Here are are the cell phone pictures from the final… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 6 Snaps
The Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest entries should all be on display by now. Which means you can now vote for the People’s Choice Award! You can do that by scanning the QR Code in the flyer below: Or you can click on the link below: People’s Choice Voting If you… Read More »Ireland Day 3: 1,517 Lost Souls
Back in late November last year Boone got a new feature. It was actually a re-imagining of an old Boone arch that used to be in Boone near the two passenger train depots. Passenger rail left Boone a long time ago. The depots both were torn down years ago. The… Read More »Try Boone…
Day 5 began in a hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The hotel was too fancy pants to serve a free breakfast so we just hit the road and saw some of my top Route 66 items right away. The Land of the Giants! Here are the cell phone pictures from Day… Read More »The Mother Road: Day 5 Snaps
If all the pundits are right, by the time this publishes, Iowa will be pounding the new look Iowa State Cyclones in the 2026 matchup of the Iowa State Cyclones and the Iowa Hawkeyes. It is what some thinks is the logical conclusion of what happens when a football team… Read More »RVTV – 2025
Today is 9/11. It has been 25 years since the terrorist attack on our country. For those of us who lived through it, it was one of the strangest and most horrific days in our lifetime. One of those days where I can remember about everything about the day. And… Read More »Ireland Day 3: Walk of Shame
This is the final collection of images from Day 2 of my trip to Ireland with Andy. Last Friday we left off with pictures of people crossing the Carrick-a-Rede Bridge. We will start right up in the same place. This made me miss the old swinging bridge in McHose Park.… Read More »Ireland Day 2: Conclusion
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
Love is like a butterfly (love is like a butterfly)As soft and gentle as a sighThe multicolored moods of love are like its satin wingsLove makes your heart feel strange insideIt flutters like soft wings in flightLove is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing (love is like) I… Read More »Love is Like a Butterfly
