Last weekend the weather finally cooperated enough for me to get out on the open road and doing some good old fashioned town sign harvesting. On Saturday. The weather immediately went back to being terrible on Sunday. But on Saturday, it didn’t snow and the temperature was above -30 degrees… Read More »Town Sign Project: Hardin County
Would you believe that I haven’t posted a tenderloining post since February 5… of 2020? I mean, that just flat out sucks people. I know there are much worse things that have happened due to the horribly mismanaged pandemic, but throw that log on the dumpster fire too. It isn’t… Read More »Tenderloin Appreciation Society – Working at Home
We did it! Again! 73 straight weeks of double digit submissions. More than a few of the submissions this week were attached to emails with people pointing out that they also like art that is heavy in SYMMETRY & PATTERNS. I immediately crossed these people off my Christmas Card List.… Read More »WPC – WEEK 284 – SYMMETRY & PATTERNS
It is the first Sunday of Lent. It is possible you couldn’t get to church today for a wide variety of reasons. To help you out I’m sharing a devotional by Reverend Melissa Drake. “Knowing our Identity” Mark 1: 9-13: By: Rev. Melissa Drake, Southwest Region Superintendent We are in… Read More »Anela Chapter 1
The folders 2010-06-29, 2010-06-30, & 2010-07-01 Center Street Bridge are fairly small, so I combined them all into one fair sized post. Most of them are pictures of flowers, but a few are pictures I took with Sara at or near the Center Street Bridge in Des Moines. By adding… Read More »2010-06-29, 2010-06-30, & 2010-07-01
This is a clearinghouse post. Grouping together some small collections of photos that might not be large enough to stand on their own. Plus getting multiple folders “finished off” and filed away to their forever homes. These pictures aren’t pandemic related, but they did occur in a pandemic. Like every… Read More »A Pandemic Menagerie
Today I’m going to share some pictures I took of Jesse in a culvert that goes under the Senholz Trail near Linwood Cemetery. These pictures were alternates for Week 268 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. The theme was FRAMED: This originally was going to start out a burning steel wool… Read More »The Underminer
If your church is like my church and hasn’t had a worship service in months, it is possible that the fact that today is Ash Wednesday may have snuck up on you. My church is actually having its first worship service tonight since October. However, if you can’t get to… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Sacred Heart
When I went out to harvest the town signs of Carroll County and Crawford County, I did both counties in one swoop. I didn’t actually need many signs from either county, so I was about to pick up most of them going south through both counties along 141 and then… Read More »Carroll County and Crawford County Auxiliary Images
Well, we did it! Andy said it couldn’t be done, but we hit double digits with WIND like it ain’t no thing, but a chicken wing on a string. A phrase, that while I enjoy typing, don’t understand in the slightest. 72 weeks in a row of double digit submissions!… Read More »WPC – WEEK 283 – WIND
I need to start out by wishing a Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody that celebrates today. Happy Valentine’s Day! Now, I know that there are a ton of people out there that are violently opposed to Saint Valentine’s Day. They call it a holiday invented by candy companies and the… Read More »Alexis Prego Dos
There is a very diverse collection of photos in the folder 2010-06-28. Most are from Shannon’s first attempt to skydive. That idea got shot down (not literally) because it was deemed to windy to do such a thing safely. There are also pictures of a reunion when Bill came to… Read More »2010-06-28
The subject this week’s THE POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT are a couple of former Boone Motels. The Shangri-La Motel and the Topper Motel. There is another defunct motel in Boone that is behind the Barkley House on Mamie Eisenhower between Boone and Story Streets. I don’t know the name of that… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Motels
Thought it was beyond time I shared a collection of flower pictures I took back in early October. That is near the end of flower picture season or Flowertography Season as we call it around Photography 139 Worldwide Headquarters. Usually you can get a couple of flowers to make it… Read More »Lipton Cup of Zinnia
I need to start today’s post by wishing Bill a happy birthday. Happy birthday Bill! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ I’m combining the auxiliary images from the town sign harvesting trips I made to Dallas County and Polk County to harvest… Read More »Dallas County and Polk County Auxiliary Images
Back in September, I strapped the Sony RX0 II to the side view mirror of the Camry. Loaded Naima into the car and drove down the canyon road at Ledges taking time-lapse images. Here are a few of them: I’m not sure what happened here, but I absolutely love the… Read More »Time Lapsed
I have to confess, I had my doubts about USE OF SPACE. It is a little more technical theme and the technical themes scare many people away. But we did it! 71 weeks in a row of double digits! But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all… Read More »WPC – WEEK 282 – USE OF SPACE
Normally I’ve been sharing family portrait type pictures on Sunday, but I wasn’t all that productive this weekend. I don’t know if it was because I’m not sure it got over -1 all weekend. Or I was just having a lazy weekend. But I never go into my mode. So… Read More »Welcome to Boone
Most of the pictures in the folder 2010-06-25 are of lilies. Lots of lilies. But also of a deer. Then one of a clothespin. By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following historic “An Artist’s Notebook” entries to their original glory: PERSONAL… Read More »2010-06-25
Today feels like a good day to share the images I took while I was prowling around Webster County harvesting their town signs with Mom and Teresa several weeks ago. I truly love this sign so much! I do love small town water towers. Stumpy’s Finished Top 5 Tenderloins in… Read More »Webster County Auxiliary Images
My most recent creations for the POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT all involve looks at intersections in Downtown Boone. There is no modern interpretation for these because I’m not sure there is a modern interpretation for intersections for Downtown Boone. There probably is, but I’ll save that until I complete all the… Read More »Postcard Recreation Project – Downtown Boone