Where the heck is Macon, MO?

Pig bales... who says farmers aren't creative?

Randy Olson and Peggy Peattie at the Macon picnic... smiling during the calm before the storm.

 A cadre of brilliant photo editors and eager photographers have inspired me for five days, here tucked away in the Elks Lodge on Rollins Street down wind of the ConAgra processing plant in rural north-central Missouri for the 62nd annual Missouri Photo Workshop. Roscoe the Elk is watching over us and Angus the neighborhood cat is scooping up spilled M&Ms.