A Trip to the Beach

My friend Fran sent me a spur of the moment invitation to go to the beach today with her dog, Ziggy. I left Ozzie at home with OilMan and Dana's two dogs, who are staying with this weekend while the family goes down to check out UC Santa Barbara with Peter.

It was unclear whether Ozzie would get into any car, much less one that had a very active German shorthair pointer in it. Having sunk somewhat into the slough of despond, I tried to get out of going myself, but then realized that it was a beautiful day and it was a beautiful drive through emerald green West County ranchland under perfect blue skies and it would do me the world of good to go.

It did....there's no place on earth quite like it....