The winter--

The seasons here in northern California have finally changed.  Nice relief from the hot weather actually.  The new above photo is a shot of a special place on the southern Mendocino coast that some friends and I had the pleasure of visiting this fall.  The surf can be all time but on this occasion, we found better waves on a beach break just a tick north that was more exposed to the meager wind swell in the water.  Good times though!!  Glassy head high waves into the evening and good times by the fire into the night.
I am really drawn to the more remote coast of northern California.  I guess like Montana (where I am from) it is a great place to visit but a challenging place to live, making the yearly pilgrimage an often rewarding but always sweet occasion.  I value the time to visit and thank my wife for the 2 day freedom to roam the coast and get away from the busy-ness of our daily life.
My dad recently moved to Kona, Hi on the big Island.  We were treated to a visit, all the girls and I and had a great time.  Among the many things we did were;  lots of beach time, swam with some dolphins, checked out the 80 year old turtles, more beach time, ate large cinnamon rolls with grandpa, visited the brewery, had shaved ice and ice cream, more beach time, surfed killer reef break 6-10 foot and glassy, more beach time, saw plenty of geckos, bbqd with grandpa, drove the lava highway, more beach time and more beach time (beach time means playing in the sand, jumping in the water,  and covering your hole body in sand with a 2 and 4 year old.  FUN!)
Not sure what the next few months have in store for us, but looking forward to my new Ranger made by Danny Hess.  He is making me a very sweet machine.  Also looking forward to going on nice winter day beach missions with the family.  Seems that between storms, the winter is THE time to be with the GroundArt clan and go to the beach...surfers know this but most lay folk don't...the winter is the nicest the California coast gets all year.
For those of any interest...my friends Pete and Tony of Tellason make some great high quality USA made denim jeans and are very worth supporting.  Both men are two of the nicest and most genuine people I have ever met and they make a killer product.  The pair of jeans you buy from them is worth their weight....they will last for a really long time and turn into a favorite...guaranteed.

A few photos of me and my sweet beautiful extremely amazing........daughters(and wife, the love of my life).  Maybe one day I'll get a few shots of surfing on here.  Oh...check out www.surfcron.com and the clip at the opening of the web site is me surfing my purple single fin at Fort Cronkite, Ca sometime last winter.  short but sweet .  Peace folks.