Michael Duncan

As I usually do when traveling I picked up the local newspaper.  The one here is published by my one time employer, Gannett, the media giant that brought us McPaper (USA Today).  The Pensacola newspaper is a nice publication — a collection of good local stories supported by advertising hawking reverse mortgages and pharmaceuticals (yes, this is where retired folks go to retire). 

Leading sports is the obligatory (at least around here) story about Tim Tebow worshipers.  I saw on ESPN that Tebow struggled in practices at the Senior Bowl up the road in Alabama.  No mention of that in the local paper here — just how he was met at the practice with star-struck fans screaming and crying because they had actually seen hero Tebow with their own eyes.  Oh, my.  No doubt they’re prying up the sidewalk so concrete chunks can be fashioned into monuments to be erected in town squares across the Deep South. 

Buried in the back of the paper is a Billy Graham column on the power of Satan.

None of which has anything to do with a few photographs I took this evening on the beach.  As you can see in the photograph above, the sand here looks like snow.