Bright, Sunny and Cold!

Bright and cold...a very frosty morning.  You would think with all that sun shine that the temperature would be up high enough to melt the snow and warm the air.  This is the mid-west.  We dodged the ice that was forecasted the last couple of nights, it got into the low 40's yesterday with rain, and the snow that was a possibility.  Just north of us schools are closed or on a delay.  Super Bowl Sunday is suppose to bring another round of forecasted snow that is suppose to cover the middle 1/3 of Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and into New York.  Sorry N.Y. 

Next month is typically one of our more unpredictable months followed by March.  March is the month of sudden wet snow storms with ice storms more likely.  I can handle the snow....boo on the ice. 

Frosty Mornings

Lots of humidity with a good amount of cold or "lack of heat" produces some great mornings outside in the mid-west.  This is one of them.

Tracks In The Snow

Tracks in the newly fallen snow this morning.  Looks like someone was confused as to which way to go in the beginning.

And then decided to leave or find a new place to be, like around the light post.  One confused little bird.

On Display

Just playing around with a small metal Porsche that sits in my computer room.  Can't call it an office, I gave that up with retirement.  Working people have offices.  At any rate, I was watching the Daytona 24 HR race and decided to take a shot of this desktop car.  Eliminated the background added some color, the car is all chrome and voila.  Not too sure about the border.

Close-up....Hawk

This is our Cooper Hawk, not mine but one that lives near by our neighborhood.  It's been here for several years and yet it may not be seen for long periods of time.  I have pictures of it on the neighbors deck, and another neighbors roof.  In that one I caught it diving down just over my head and then swooping up in a tree in the front yard where it found a nest of young robins.  They're posted in this blog somewhere.

Here it is about twenty feet out back over a bird feeder.  It took off between the the houses, maybe it saw the mouse that I have seen signs of in the grass.  What a mouser to have.

Winter Colors

Even though the colors are dulled by winter conditions, color is still there.

Sold!

     I was watching the Barrett Jackson auction last night and a 2005 Ford GT came up on the block.  It was serial number 003 which means that the car was the first to be sold to the public.  Per the MC's hosting the show numbers 1 and 2 went to private owners.  I'm assuming one may have been the Ford museum and the other to someone like Carroll Shelby or a Ford exec.  The silver (gray) one that went on auction block last night.  It didn't meet the reserve so at 470,000 it left the stage.  Maybe it was sold afterwards, they do that sometimes.  My guess is that the reserve may have been at a half million and then you add the costs of the sale and the buyer pays a whole lot more, maybe 25%.  Ten year old car that cost $155,000 new if you got lucky enough to pay that price.  In 1994 the new Camaro was selling for manufactures price and even higher due to the fact it was a major model change and GM wasn't producing them very fast.  They weren't even running three shifts so you can see it was price driven for the dealers....fools.  I digress, the Ford is worth the money but for other reasons.

     I took this shot back in 2009 at a local car show put on by John Dixon of Taj Ma Garaj for our local children's hospital Ronald McDonald's House.  John was an avid Porsche man, the TMG was a local garage specializing in foreign makes and he owned a local Porsche museum.  John passed away from cancer a year ago after a long battle.