RED. A great color. I don’t know a person who doesn’t look great in cardinal. However, was RED a popular theme? You will have to keep scrolling to find out!

As of 12:01 PM on Monday, January 9, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses):

1-Nathanial Brown – 1 week
2-Mary Green – 1 week (2)
3-Monica Jennings – 1 week
4-Sara Lockner – 1 week
5-Willy McAlpine – 1 week
6-Mike Vest – 2 weeks
7-Tamara Peterson – 11 weeks
8-Brandon Kahler – 22 weeks
9-Linda Bennett – 25 weeks (2)
10-Sarah Toot – 26 weeks (4)
11-Angie DeWaard – 30 weeks
12-Dawn Krause – 34 weeks
13-Kim Barker – 40 weeks
14-Joe Duff – 41 weeks
15-Logan Kahler – 43 weeks (3)
16-Teresa Kahler – 52 weeks (2)
17-Carla Stensland – 52 weeks
18-Micky Augustin – 54 weeks
19-Andy Sharp – 55 weeks
20-Bill Wentworth – 56 weeks
21-Cathie Morton – 60 weeks
22-Elizabeth Nordeen – 61 weeks
23-Shannon Bardole-Foley – 63 weeks
24-Kio Dettman – 64 weeks

But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates or streaks. You came to see the submissions and what streaks continued and what streaks flamed out:

Angie DeWaard (Iowa) – 31 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Iowa) – 53 weeks

Teresa Kahler (Iowa)

Teresa Kahler (Iowa)

Elizabeth Nordeen (Iowa) – 62 weeks

Micky Augustin (Iowa) – 55 weeks

Andy Sharp (Iowa) – 56 weeks

Bill Wentworth (Nebraska) – 57 weeks

Joe Duff (Texas) – 42 weeks

Kio Dettman (Iowa) – 65 weeks

Kio Dettman (Iowa)

Linda Bennett (Kansas) – 26 weeks

Linda Bennett (Kansas)

Logan Kahler (Iowa) – 44 weeks

Logan Kahler (Iowa)

Logan Kahler (Iowa)

Mary Green (Iowa) – 2 weeks

Mary Green (Iowa)

Shannon Bardole-Foley (Iowa) – 64 weeks

Sarah Toot (Pennsylvania) – 27 weeks

Tamara Peterson (Iowa) – 12 weeks

Nathanial Brown (Missouri) – 2 weeks

Nathanial Brown (Missouri)

Nathanial Brown (Missouri)

Christopher D. Bennett (Iowa)

Carla Stensland (Iowa) – 53 weeks

Carla Stensland (Iowa)

Cathie Morton (Florida) – 61 weeks

Cathie Morton (Florida)

Brandon Kahler (Iowa) – 23 weeks

Sara Lockner (Iowa) – 2 weeks

Becky Parmelee (Arkansas) – 1 week

Sabas Hernandez (Iowa) – 1 week

Dawn Krause (Iowa) – 35 weeks

Dawn Krause (Iowa)

Dawn Krause (Iowa)

Jesse Howard (Iowa) – 1 week

Monica Jennings (Iowa) – 2 weeks

Suzie Brannen (Iowa) – 1 week

Suzie Brannen (Iowa)

Kim Barker (Iowa) – 41 weeks

Jen Ensley-Gorshe (Iowa) – 1 week

Mike Vest (Iowa) – 3 weeks

We had submissions taken in:
+ Arkansas
+ Florida
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Nebraska
+ Missouri
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas

Florida and Missouri are new additions to the map, Making this year’s list:

+ Arkansas
+ Florida
+ Iowa
+ Kansas
+ Nebraska
+ Nevada
+ Missouri
+ Pennsylvania
+ Texas

That is 9 states. We’ve covered almost 20% of the states!

Once again, I did not help. I took my picture in my living room. But Nathanial and Cathie filled in a couple more states for us!

It wasn’t all good news though. Willy’s couldn’t extend his streak to 2 weeks.

But enough dwelling on the past. Time to look to the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future! This week’s theme:

SILENCE

SILENCE! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.

But what exactly is a SILENCE image? I mean you can make the case that all pictures are in SILENCE, but for this theme I urge you to really search out a place of SILENCE and capture your image there, while not breaking the SILENCE.

While considering a place of SILENCE for you to photograph, meditate on the following quote and I have no doubt you will capture a great SILENCE image:

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
-Mother Teresa

I look forward to seeing your interpretation.

RULES

The picture has to be taken between 12:01 PM today and 11 AM next Monday. This isn’t a curate your photos project. This is a get your butt off the couch (unless you are taking your picture from the couch) and take pictures challenge. There is a limit of 3 submissions per participant. To be considered the photographer, you have to be the one that takes the picture. Don’t be stealing the work of other artists. You can submit pictures for other photographers that took pictures with your camera or phone, but give credit where credit is due.

You can send your images to either bennett@photography139.com OR you may text them to my Pixel 5.

That is it. Thems the rules!

That is all I got, so if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creek don’t rise, we will all be sharing your idea of SILENCE in this place that’s anything but next Monday.