Spicy




You Are Cayenne Pepper



You are very over the top and a bit overwhelming.

You have a fiery personality, and you can give anyone a good jolt.

You can easily take things up a couple notches, no matter what crowd you're running with.

Thin Ice

It seems when you get a group of people together for an evening of ice skating strange things are bound to happen.

Strange stances.

Strange faces.














Strange chains of people being tugged across the ice.

Strangeness.

Heavy Metals

Nothing gets my heart pumping as quickly as a sharp, crisp whine coming from a rapidly firing engine. The sharp punch of gasoline, the scream of rubber on road, the coaxing call of a new interior, the shine of fresh-from-the-factory windows all make the car world a haven.

Recently Chicago hosted the 100th year Auto Show (not annual mind you, as they took a break during WWII) and i had the joy, yea the honor, of attending the event.

How one building can hold such joys and delights is beyond imagination! The gleam of new aluminum, the groovy new spins on age old concepts, the age old concepts lurking in the undercarriage of every piece.

It's love.

True love.One of the oldest cars ever made. I think my bike has bigger tires...

The Viper. A classy slice of ShaZAAM!


The Camero. Ready to run the roads again. They call this one the Bumblebee. Whatever.

The HOT Challenger! In stunning hemi orange. Sigh...

Just around the rivers bend

I went for a hike in the lovely midst of the Michigan Winter. And sure enough, truth was reinforced. Yes... it is cold.

After traipsing down vacant beaches and through some of my favorite summer hiking trails, I eventually wound up at the pier in St. Joseph and found this rail all covered in ice.
The bright blue rails were frosted in sheets of ice. And i was amazed by the pattern of the dripping water, frozen into solid streams of ice. The sheer beauty of it was enough to drop me to my knees to snap this shot.

And I kept walking.
Slipping.
Sliding.

And further on down the pier i found this rail.


And it hit me. The first rails were awesome, but nothing compared to what was waiting around the bend of the pier.

The rails are much like life. Today, the first rail you see, is fantastic, but it is nothing like what is in store around the bend. God has given each of us so much to see and do! We get a full life, brimming with friends, mercy, love, snow, salt and joy! He has given us grace for today and bright hope for tomorrow!

Here's me hoping to see more ice-covered rails (metaphorically speaking!), being in awe of them every time and living in anticipation of the more fully covered rails of tomorrow!