Today is a big day for Iowa State athletics. Iowa State is one of only two schools that have both their Men’s and Women’s basketball team still alive in the NCAA tournament. For the Men, this is pretty shocking since they only won two games last year. This was the… Read More »Kossuth and Winnebago County Auxiliary Images Vol. 2
Don’t forget, that if you want to enter Roundball Oracles – Year 17, click on the link below: Roundball Oracles – Year 17 So far I think about 15 brackets have been filled out. The first ones filled out were by Sara and Shawn Lockner. I was very impressed! +++++++… Read More »Bremer County Auxiliary Images
It is time once again for the greatest sporting event of year. It is that time known as March Madness. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Once again, I will be sponsoring a pool. There is no cost to enter the pool, except for pride. The winner gets a trophy. The… Read More »Roundball Oracles – Year 17
Back on Monday I completed another month of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge. I once again should thank Elizabeth as she assisted on a few of the photos this month. Here are the pictures from February: February 1 – A is For… February 2 – B is… Read More »Fat Mum Slim – February 2022
For a somewhat abstract concept, quite a few people have found HARMONY in their lives somewhere. In fact, it was a record breaking week! As of 10:59 AM on Monday, February 28, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks: + Linda Bennett – 1 week + Suzie Brannen –… Read More »WPC – WEEK 337 – HARMONY
The March image for the 2022 Photography 139 Calendar is a picture of a geranium dripping with water. This picture was taken in my yard. Tomorrow I will share the April image. +++++++ A few weeks back I prowled through several counties in southwest Iowa harvesting town signs. This is… Read More »Southwest Iowa Auxiliary Images Vol. 1
I didn’t take many pictures in the month of December in 2010, so I decided to just do the entire month and combine all the folders into one mega sized post. There are pictures in here from a family portrait fundraiser (that was not a huge success) for the youth… Read More »12December2010
On the last day of the Iowa State Fair, Jesse and I went down there and spent several hours down there before picking up my pictures from the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon. I barely made it in to the Cultural Center to get my photos because they started closing… Read More »Last Day of the Fair
Congratulations to Micky on winning this years Roundball Oracles Basketball Pool. His name has not been etched on the list of immortals: PAST ROUNDBALL ORACLE CHAMPIONS 2021 – Micky Augustin 2020 – Tournament Cancelled 2019 – Becky Parmelee 2018 – Paul Golden 2017 – Paul Golden 2016 – Michelle Haupt… Read More »Roundball Oracles – Year 16
This is a reminder that at this point you have 1 hour to get your picks in for my NCAA Tournament Pool. Click on the link below to get started: Roundball Oracles – Year 16 Good luck! +++++++ I need to wish my Aunt Linda a happy birthday today. Happy… Read More »Jasper County Auxiliary Images
This is a reminder that at this point you have 24 hours to get your picks in for my NCAA Tournament Pool. Click on the link below to get started: Roundball Oracles – Year 16 Good luck! Note: As of this writing, Iowa State hasn’t made it official that T.J.… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – More Churches
This is a reminder that at this point you have 48 hours to get your picks in for my NCAA Tournament Pool. Click on the link below to get started: Roundball Oracles – Year 16 Good luck! +++++++ This is the final collection of flower pictures from 2020. It is… Read More »Lost in a Roman Wilderness of Pain
It is time once again for the greatest sporting event of year. It is that time known as March Madness. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Once again, I will be sponsoring a pool. There is not cost to enter the pool, except for pride. The winner gets a trophy. The… Read More »Roundball Oracles – Year 16
Whew! This is a big one. Just by adding these pictures to the SmugMug Gallery from the folder 2010-04-29, I was able to fix 5 “An Artist’s Notebook” posts. I believe I added pictures to 14 different photo albums. The pictures in this folder are taken from over several days… Read More »2010-04-29
Today’s walk down will involve 3 folders, but hardly any pictures. The pictures in the folders 2010-02-03, 2010-02-11, and 2010-02-13 are some self-portraits and pictures for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, then known as THE RANDOM WEEKLY PHOTO EXPERIMENT. The picture of me with the basketball was taken to commemorate an… Read More »2010-02-03, 2010-02-11, and 2010-02-13
Happy 4th of July everybody! This holiday celebratory picture is a bit different. This historical marker commemorates the crew of a U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Bomber that were killed when their plane crashed in Boone County during a training flight during WWII. +++++++ The pictures in the folders 2010-01-19… Read More »2010-01-19 & 2010-01-25
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to those of you that celebrate. I don’t. I’m mostly of Scottish and Welsh stock, so I’ve been trained by the English to hate the Irish and I do. I do hate the Irish. At least I hate the Notre Dame Fighitn’ Irish. They can straight… Read More »Pride. Integrity. Guts.
Last April I went up to Minneapolis to checkout all the hoopla that surrounds the Final Four. Dae Hee and I went downtown and checked everything out. I snapped a few pictures. Here are some of my favorites: It appears to be a down season for the Cyclones this year.… Read More »Part Ballroom, Part Baller
Happy Friday the 13th! May your night be Jason Voorhees free! Or, if you want, have the proper amount of Jason Voorhees. I have to confess that while I was on vacation I got sucked down a rabbit hole of watching the special features on about all of the discs… Read More »Not What I Appear to Be
HIGH PERSPECTIVE proved to be a highly unpopular theme. That is the bad news. The good news is that by skin of its teeth, HIGH PERSPECTIVE had double digit submissions, to run the streak of double digit submission to eleven! Woot! Woot! My best prognostication is that the streak will… Read More »WPC – WEEK 221 – HIGH PERSPECTIVE
In the 2018 backlog, I found another collection of pictures I took at an Iowa State women’s basketball game. I decided to post them, to make sure, all of you understand that Bridget Carleton is the GOAT. Bridge Carleton also: #1 & #5 Scoring Seasons – 760 + 594 #1… Read More »GOAT II (No Actual Goats in this Post)