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Porsche 356 in Gulfport

Emblems from Monte Carlo Rally & Le Mans 24 hr

I am consistently amazed at the little treasures that have started turning up.  This week I found a Porsche 356 in Gulfport.  Sadly I never caught the owner’s name.. She is the second owner of the vehicle, buying it for $3000 about forty years ago, when she was 18.  At twenty one she had driven [...]

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Baseball, Payday, and Marriage

New Art project start

The beginning part of the week has slipped a some from my memory.  Usually I make a note or two to job my mind, but there is not much for the first few days. Wine tasting at the restaurant Monday.  All the wines tasted really young to me. Most were 2008 vintage and not close [...]

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Artistic Mailboxes of Gulfport

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Moving to Gulfport I was amazed at the density of really cool, decorative, and intricate mailboxes and began a project to locate and document any artistic artistic expression that went beyond the stock USPS regulated box. I’ve not made any additional progress since last fall and realized that completing the project dovetails nicely with my theme of [...]

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Short and Stormy

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The holiday’s intrusion this week let it fly past ever faster having 20% less filler. I even tried to strech out the posting to later on Friday to squeeze a little more into the week. Seems that the “day off” also had me taking less photos over the week.. dunno why that would happen. Tuesday’s [...]

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My First Year in Florida

Stage managing for a fashion show

Living in Florida this past year has been most interesting.  I’m living on the west coast of Florida on a peninsula that reaches into the area where Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico meet.  Flatter land and warmer water than in San Francisco. Shelley and I arrived in Florida May 8, 2008 fresh from [...]