Alfie's Lake Games

 Alfie the Yorkie does what he wants, because that is what kids do. When it comes to playing he is all kid. After a long day of exploring, demands to come and get in the car are answered with the creaking sounds of crunching on a found plastic bottle and playing keep away from anyone trying to coral the little monster in the last warm rays of a setting sun on an unseasonably warm fall day. 

Stockyards Santa Claus

    Met a western Santa today, a real western Santa. growing up in Alvarado and being the official Claus for the Fort Worth Stockyards, Mikey Richardson sports a real fulling length white beard and a pair of stingray boots to cap his loop stitched red jacket. Even had a drawl in his Ho Ho Ho laugh.

 

Big Sur Sunset

  A couple of frames from the sunset at a small beach south of Big Sur along the California coast. The beach was a little steep so the crashing waves just made a big shore pound which ruled out any chance of surfing. A beautiful spot non the less

for watching a pod of whales as they made their way north to the Monterey Peninsula.

Evening Porsche Drive

    Needing to do a little work for a friend in the country with no equipment needed to speak of, it seemed a perfect opportunity to take the long ignored 1983 Porsche 944 for a stretch of the legs. I can not remember the last time we went past the city limits so a drive of more than an hour into the Texas countryside was a welcome change of pace. The fact that we were preceding what has been predicted to be the equivalent to Snow-magedon just made it that much better. 

   I really did not expect to enjoy a jaunt down country roads in a nearly forty year old car to be so thrilling but I presume that is the benefit of having a badge from Zuffenhausen on the hood. The feel of a non assisted steering rack may be a little heavy in a parking lot but on the open road it is visceral, making the inputs to balance a bit of power oversteer at the rear sublime. 

  So now I sit in a warm house with a cold rain slowly turning to freezing rain falling outside, and I am content in the thought that the next warm day I can zip out of the garage and take mom's car out for another dash.