The latest from Mark’s mission work in Taiwan. On a personal note, Mark is back in the United States for a few weeks and we will be having our annual meal in the next couple of weeks. There will hopefully be a in focus picture of us on that night… Read More »The Taiwan Times – June 2010
The submissions for last week’s theme COMMUNICATION are in: Justin Whitaker of American Buddhist Perspective Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey Mike Vest Christopher D. Bennett The Random Generator has been fired up and it has spit out this week’s theme: CALM I would think that would… Read More »RWPE #27 – Communication
Happy Birthday Logan! Happy Birthday Derrick! This Journal Entry also marks a milestone for Derrick. He has become the 4th person to reach triple digits in Journal Entries about them. However, I promised 3 Happy Birthdays…. Happy Birthday Jill!
The Glow that Illumines I took this series of pictures after Todd and Peggy’s wedding with Sara insisting I don’t do anything dangerous or illegal. Here are more pictures that aren’t dangerous or illegal: I will have to revisit this concept with somebody that cares less about my safety and… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 25
Small people talk about other people. Average people talk about things. Great people talk about ideas. When I first began my sentence with the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire, there was a ludicrous sign posted in the crew room that had this observation written on it. I’m not… Read More »The Dumbest Thing Shannon Bardole has Ever Done
For reasons that are slightly inexplicable to me, I ended up in Beaver, Iowa yesterday morning. I’ve always felt that Beaver is a town that looks like it “walked” out of a horror movie. For this reason I once (years and years ago) took a series of pictures called “The… Read More »Welcome to Beaver, Iowa
We’ve officially reached the halfway point of the Random Weekly Photo Experiment. I think that the holiday weekend took its toll on submissions. There are only 3 for this week: Dawn Krause Julie Johnson Christopher D. Bennett Michael Vest Dawn’s Weekly Poem A Random Chat Revisited Shopping at the market… Read More »RWPE #26 – Market
The rest of the pictures from the “The Girl in the Blue Skirt Photo Sessions”:
Every 100 or so posts, I like to make a list of the most popular pictures on this blog. Here is the list of the 10 most popular photos in the Artistic Gallery. 1. Outburst of the Soul 2. Self-Portrait 3. Jen Relaxing Between Sets 4. Grizzly McAlpine 5. Rebecca… Read More »Post No. 850
Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 24 was to take pictures of daisies. I went in to this project wondering if I could take a better daisy picture than “The Solace of Ordinary Humanity”, but I made the attempt. I will split the daisy pictures into two separate posts… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 24 Alpha
I am thinking of adding a weekly segment to this journal where lesser gardeners can ask me questions about how I became such a super badass gardener and I would sprinkle my nuggets of wisdom on them. If you have any questions, leave them in the Comments section of this… Read More »The Incidental Gardener Files
A collection of unrelated photos and stories… Bill’s Return Bill returned to Boone briefly on Saturday. A few pictures from our time together. At FNSC Willy agreed to attempt to eat ice cream on 100 straight days. At first he balked at attempting such a thing, but the more he… Read More »Unaffiliated Triad
The submissions for last week’s theme – STILL LIFE: Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Mike Vest Becky Perkovich A Becky Perkovich B Dawn’s Weekly Poem: Still Life In this still lifeNo one to understandIn this still lifeNo one to hold your hand In this still lifeWe walk the road aloneIn… Read More »RWPE #25 – Still Life
This week’s Personal Photo Project was to take some photos of the flowers at Reiman Gardens. I’m going to split these pictures into two separate posts to maximize the appreciation of these pictures. At least that is my goal. Well-Shaped Girl Here are a few other pictures from the Well-Shaped… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 23 Alpha
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” -William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) With all due respect to Shakespeare, this line from Julius Caesar has always bothered me. It has always bothered me because I don’t think that it is true. In fact,… Read More »Memory is Private Literature