A few Saturdays back, before I took my entries for this year’s huge embarrassing failure at the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon to the Cultural Center and well before I went to Saydie’s wedding, I tooled around Lucas County and harvested their town signs. It was a pretty busy day.… Read More »Town Sign Project: Lucas County
Despite the holiday weekend, there was pretty good participation in this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. At least a few of you got out there and had an ADVENTURE last week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see… Read More »WPC – WEEK 303 – ADVENTURE
This is the third and final collection of images I took while harvesting the town signs of Madison and Union County. Almost all these pictures were taken in Union County, but a few were taken in Adair County and Clarke County. This was the last town sign harvesting trip I… Read More »Madison County and Union County Auxiliary Images – 3
There were hardly any pictures in the folder 2010-09-29 so I decided to combine it with 2010-09-30. This collection includes a picture of a buckeye. I really wish I remember why I took this buckeye picture. I never shared it on this here blog. Buckeyes have a deeper family connection… Read More »2010-09-29 & 2010-09-30
On Wednesday night I completed another successful month of THE SELFIE PROJECT. I don’t know that is was a particularly exciting month, but I think there are some good pictures in the collection. Here are some of my favorites from June: June 1, 2021 June 2, 2021 June 3, 2021… Read More »Selfie Project – June 2021
Here is another collection of flower pictures I took in my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on April 10, 2021. There is also a picture of Mocha looking out Mom’s living room window and a picture of a Tin Man sculpture that my Grandpa Paris made. Many more flower… Read More »Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger
This is the second collection of “other” images I took while harvesting the town signs of Madison and Union County. This was the last town sign harvesting trip I ever took with my Mom. All of the pictures in this collection were taken in Madison County. St. Charles, East Peru,… Read More »Madison County and Union County Auxiliary Images – 2
After laying my pick down for the week (cue Loverboy) on a recent Friday, I cruised up to Grundy County and harvested their town sign. I didn’t have my ritualistic Hardee’s breakfast due to the time of day, but I did have Hardee’s for supper, which was technically a loss,… Read More »Town Sign Project: Grundy County
The theme of COMMUNICATION did not communicate to a tremendous amount of people. That is fine. Maybe this week’s theme will be more popular. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Elizabeth Nordeen Andy Sharp Andy… Read More »WPC – WEEK 302 – COMMUNICATION
Here is the final collection of pictures from the Stenslands 2020 family photo shoot: These were the last pictures from 2020 that I had yet to share. I might start taking Sundays back off from “An Artist’s Notebook”, but I will need to take a look at where I stand… Read More »The Stenslands 2020 Gamma
There were large collections of images in the folders 2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, or 2010-09-27 so I combined them into one post. These include pictures of an Iowa State-Kansas State football game, pictures taken shortly after Evie was born, and pictures of Elainie playing football. By adding these pictures to the Photography… Read More »2010-09-20, 2010-09-21, and 2010-09-27
This collection of images is cleaning up some random photos from January and February. The highlight and the majority of these images are taken from when Logan brought Dahlia over see Mom and Teresa. That was a good day! +++++++ This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »Congregation
Here is another collection of flower pictures I took in my Mom’s yard. These pictures were taken on April 14. There are tulips, daffodils, and a peony in this collection. So many more flower picture photos to share!
This is the first collection of other images I took while harvesting the town signs of Madison and Union County. This was the last one of these trips I took with my Mom. It also includes the last picture I ever took with her. It was at the John Wayne… Read More »Madison County and Union County Auxiliary Images – 1
I recently took a Friday off from the Computer Mine and Jesse and I spent the day tooling around Poweshiek County (and Benton County) harvesting their town signs. It was a very enjoyable trip, because it included ice cream! As all great road trips should. Here are some facts about… Read More »Town Sign Project: Poweshiek County
It appears that WHITE was not a super popular theme. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Shannon Bardole-Foley Christopher D. Bennett Micky Augustin Angie DeWaard Kim Barker Angie DeWaard Kio Dettman Kio Dettman Cathie Raley… Read More »WPC – WEEK 301 – WHITE
This is the final collection of pictures from the photo shoot I had with Anela a couple weeks after she was born. I’m sure I will have so many more Anela pictures to share in the coming years!
The pictures in the folder 2010-09-20 are from a block party at the Boone First United Methodist Church. It was supposed to be a mostly outside event, but bad weather forced it to be inside. It is weird looking at these pictures now, because these little kids are now in… Read More »2010-09-20
Today I’m sharing a collection I took over a couple days back in February or Naima and of an icicle. Some people say I don’t take enough pictures of Naima. Naima is not one of those people. She is a dog. +++++++ This your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY… Read More »Assemblage
Today I’m sharing a collection of flower pictures I took in my Mom’s yard on April 8. Tulips, daffodils, and Mother’s Day Peony are included in this collection. I have so many flower pictures to share. And so many more to take.
Back in March I made a solo trip up to Franklin County to harvest the town signs that I was missing. Here are some of the auxiliary images I took while I was up there. Popejoy Bradford Hampton Chapin Sheffield Hampton Again Geneva Beeds Lake State Park Coulter Franklin County… Read More »Franklin County Auxiliary Images