My 110 pound lap dog...

There he is.  Gizmo the Wonderpup, also known as the Fields Family Homeland Security, frolicking in this morning's snowfall, on school vacation, while indoors, the Pink Mafia, aka, Leigh, Kaela, and Coryne Fields, drive their mother insane...

He was only supposed to be about 70-80 pounds.  He just kept growing, and growing... like Clifford the Big Red Dog "Love makes little things grow..."

He has no concept whatsoever that's he's not a chihuahua... Just climbs right up on me with the slightest encouragement....

Oh boy.

Minot Beach, Scituate, MA, New Year's Weekend Storm 2010

Waves are crashing over the seawall and making the coast roads in/out Minot Beach in Scituate flooded and impassable, and it happened quickly.

Some cars went down to the end of Gannet Road, got to Surfside where the water was piling up, and turned tail to go home.

It truly is an exercise in natural selection. "Hey Martha. Look at that wave." Oopsie. Elmer is never heard from again!

It was snowing when I took this. The beach is about twenty feet down below the top of those rocks. The tide is high, the moon is nearly full, and the winds are whipping. There's truly a storm on the coast tonight, for sure.

Click to see a larger view, and note the white caps on the horizon line.

Snowing, snowing, snowing....

Just back from another gourmet New Year's feast at a neighbor's house--mercifully just around the corner, but a daunting trek through foot high drifts of snow--but before I retired for the evening and wished all well for 2009, I wanted to post this picture I took this afternoon out of my living room window into my front yard. Somewhere out there is the Atlantic ocean... Way beyond those windswept, frozen trees.  Please note, the photo isn't meant to be high art!  Merely documentary of the weather.

I am grateful beyond description for things for which I am well aware and need not share here, but wish it to be known:  I am listening.  I hear.  I am honored.  I endeavor to be worthy of the dreams driving my daily efforts .

Hazzah!