The opening date for the dungeness crab season every December is always a little iffy.  This year it was just in time for cracking crab on Christmas Eve.

I think everyone here got off work at noon today.  Traffic was bumper to bumper.  Not a single parking space to be found — by those less clever than I  —  but I have lived here for a long time now and I know all the tricks and secret places.  And I always run into people I know and get to wish Merry Christmas to.