Hitting up the old 2019 backlog. The pictures I share today are from the graduation church service for our church’s seniors. The other pictures are pictures I took on the same day. I have seen some of those kids, ahem, young adults since they moved on to their next adventures.… Read More »Purpose and Potential
Another big week for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Double digits for the 17th week in a row. Double digits easy. Easier than walking a Thunderbird. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Elizabeth Nordeen… Read More »WPC – WEEK 228 – COUNTRY
For starters, happy birthday Anders! We celebrated Anders’ birthday last night at January birthday night with yellow cake, a DOLEMITE double feature, and a root beer tasting. After all, DOLEMITE is my name and (expletive deleted) up mother (expletive deleted) is my game! Here are some pictures of a man… Read More »Birthday Road Trip – Little Brown Church
There are a ton of photos in the folder 2009-08-24. Most of them are from my trips to the Iowa State Fair in 2009. However, there is also a good chunk of them that are pictures of Teresa and Ernie. This is already going to be a long post, so… Read More »2009-08-24
Last year I failed to make it to Pella to photograph tulips. In fact, I think it has been a couple of years since I’ve been to Pella. Which is sad, because I really enjoy photographing tulips. Even though, there are those that hate my flower photography, I persist. While… Read More »Behind Curtiss
I took a few pictures on Easter of last year that seems like a good time to share. I think the pictures of the Easter Egg Hunt were taken by Jaxon. In fact I’m positive they were taken by Jaxon. We are a little more than a month away from… Read More »The Ultimate Triumph
These are the first flower pictures I took in 2019 in my own yard. There are also a couple of bonus Naima pictures, since she was there too. On further reflection, I would say that some of these flowers are actually from my Mom’s yard. Definitely the tulip.
Back in May I went to see Evie perform during her piano recital. The recital was in Chocolaterie Stam in downtown Ames. I arrived early, so I wandered around downtown Ames and took a few photos that I’d like to share now: I still really haven’t set 2020 photography goals… Read More »Argerich
I would be remiss if I didn’t open today without wishing everybody a Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today, I want to share some of his words following the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Often our movement has been referred to as a boycott movement. The word boycott,… Read More »WPC – WEEK 227 – TEXTURE
Back in November, the grocery store in Ogden burned down, making Ogden the latest small town to become a food desert. What is a food desert? As defined by the United States Department of Agriculture, a food desert is an area in which at least a third of the population… Read More »Ogden, Iowa – Food Desert
The pictures in the folders 2009-08-15, 2009-08-20, and include pictures from an anniversary dinner for Shorty and Doris and pictures from that time I actually tilled up part of my backyard and planted a garden. The picture of Jill that is edited in a couple different ways is her with… Read More »2009-08-15 & 2009-08-20 & 2009-08-21
It is hard to believe, but I haven’t published a tenderloining blog since August 26, 2018 when I recapped Michelle and I’s trip to The Filling Station in Ames. I actually made a few tenderloining trips and I just never got around to telling the world what I experienced. I… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Don Williams Field Work
Here is a collection of pictures I took in my backyard back in August of some flowers, the sky, and of course that most noble of insects, the wasp. Want more wasp pictures? Don’t worry baby bird. I’ll feed you. Eventually.
This is a collection of images that I took on my way home from following the Big Boy. After letting the train roll past us one last time, Teresa and I headed back to Boone after stopping off in Carroll for a delicious meal at Rancho Grande Mexican. Then in… Read More »Who’s a Big Boy – Addendum
This is my final collection of images from the day I spent following the Union Pacific Big Boy a little ways across central Iowa. The Big Boy is 133 feet long and 17 feet tall. A standard diesel locomotive is 74 feet long and 15 foot 7 inches tall. A… Read More »Who’s a Big Boy – Chapter 3
FOOD was another very popular theme. We have reached 16 straight weeks of double digit submissions! Someday I’m going to have to have a look and see what is the record for the most submissions for one week. I don’t think today is that record, but there were a healthy… Read More »WPC – WEEK 226 – FOOD
Last Saturday I took Naima for a walk around Ledges to take a picture for the HDR theme of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. Obviously I took more photos than the one I shared. Here are the ones that didn’t make the cut: Since HDR (true HDR) is the taking of… Read More »The Constant Shame of My Existence
Rather than naming the folders that include images from the Backbone State Park Road Trip I took with Jay, Derrick, Jen, Sara, and Shannon, I’m just going to call this post Backbone Road Trip. Here are a look at a few of my favorite images from the road trip: It… Read More »Backbone Road Trip
I spent a few moments taking pictures of flowers one day back in May. Here are some of my favorites: The tulips belong to my Mom. The rest belong to me. +++++++ One thing I wanted to bring back this year was happy birthdays. Today is Lowell’s birthday, so happy… Read More »Will You Pardon Me?
Back in August, Logan purchased a new mirrorless Sony camera. I took it for a brief run through my backyard for fun. I’ve been on the struggle bus lately because it is about time that I purchase a new camera but I can’t decide if I should stay in the… Read More »Logan’s Toy
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