Tall Grass Prairie 5/12/19

Tall Grass Prairie 5/12/19
//BNJMN (5/12/19): Just occurred to me today that calling it ‘the Interwebs’ as a cute ironic joke isn’t actually cute or ironic or a joke anymore and hasn’t been for years, oh no 🤦🏻♂️
//BNJMN (5/12/19): I always worry that when I wear white shoes it makes me look arrogant, like I’m above jumping in any mud puddles today.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong 5/12/19
Floral Mother’s Day Vibes 5/12/19
Ooh, I’ve never heard this before. Weird chill.
//BNJMN (5/12/19): Pushed a few tweaks to the site this morning. Rejiggered the pagination system, increased the number of posts displayed per page, and changed the way photo captions look.
Elkader Grain Elevator 5/12/19
Osbourne Trail 5/11/19
This week’s poem for 52 Failures
//BNJMN (5/11/19): This aside is the 150th thing posted to this site. Good job me!
Elkader Cinema 5/11/19
Last night I saw Lee Henke perform (he was great), but it turns out his girlfriend Ira who sang harmony with him for a couple pieces is amazing too.
//BNJMN (5/10/19): Counted 24 deer on my drive back from Elkader this evening. Harrowing
Lee Henke 5/10/19
Live music at a new Elkader bar called Deb’s Brewtopia. Really good original stuff, and a bunch of well done Townes Van Zandt covers
Weirdo plant, why are you so weird? 5/10/19
Sweet Baby Girl 5/10/19
Mysterious Couple 5/9/19
From a trove of old, anonymous photos. I love this picture
//BNJMN (5/9/19): Heads out the door with 2 cameras, because he’s not sure which one he wants, and then discovers both have dead batteries.
//BNJMN (5/9/19): Camomile tea, it’s very good.
Self-Portrait with Very Small Cat 5/9/19
Your Basic Aeropress Pic 5/9/19
Ok, ok—I know coffee pics are cheese, but such pretty foam!
Mist Setting in at Dusk 5/8/19
Dumb Rain, I Hate You 5/8/19
//BNJMN (5/8/19): Needed to renew my passport, so I of course managed to spend about two hours taking a new picture and then just as much time making sure I wasn’t filling out the dumb form completely wrong.
Grain Elevator on Hwy 3 5/8/19
I’m really into grain elevators now
West Union, IA 5/8/19
//BNJMN (5/8/19): I’ve had a loose button sitting on my desk for the last three weeks, and I have finally reattached him to his shirt—very proud, thank you
//BNJMN (5/7/19): It’s supposed to be rainy and dreadful for the rest of the week and I am not happy about it.
Leafs are pretty 5/7/19
Grass in Sunlight 5/7/19
Exploring at Echo Valley
Coffee Shop 5/6/19
I’m not a typically a big fan of stand-up comedy, with the exception of Stewart Lee, who I adore. Hard to describe his approach, except to say that he is very clever, and excellent at using the audience itself as a source of comedy in a meta-comic way.
This particular YouTube version is a bit hacky, but if you can ignore the weird image quality, it’s very good.
//BNJMN (5/6/19): Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke is absolutely blasting in this coffee shop, and I want to jump through the plate glass window.
It’s not a good song. I know some people like it, but they are wrong.
The Magpie 5/6/19
Working from the Magpie in Decorah this morning
Baltimore Oriels 5/6/19
About a dozen of these guys showed up this morning
I don’t understand a word of this song except ‘Aye’, but it pops. By the Dutch rapper Dio.
Maid-Rite 5/5/19
//BNJMN (5/5/19): Went to a car show on Main Street in Cedar Falls this afternoon. Not as many beat up old trucks as I was hoping for, but there were lots of pretty cars. Lots of old timers and car dads out today.
GTO 5/5/19