John & Anne Wiley

2010/06/24

Right Seat

Filed under: Aviation,by Anne,Flying,Has Photos,Nature,People,SB Region — Anne @ 00:20

I have some photos today.  This one of the point at UCSB was taken on 6-20 as we flew – John’s Father’s Day choice 🙂 – up the coast.  The context for the first two was “UCSB without Molly” – the campus looks different with her in Paris.  I appreciate how much more connected I feel to the campus from her having been here, and even more so with the graduation activities. Got a closer sense of the warm community life in IV as well.  So here is the Campus Point with students enjoying the beach:

0997 UCSB Campus Pt. beach

0997 UCSB Campus Pt. beach

This is a few seconds later.

0998 UCSB & SBA from Coast

0998 UCSB & SBA from Coast

Then this from the same flight, on the return.  I loved the clouds along the edge of the coast, and especially this view with the sliver of mountain top peeking through.  This looks toward Vandenburg from the valley between Lompoc and Buellton.

1017 Clouds peeking

1017 Clouds peeking

John’s encouraged me to post – thank you John!

2010/06/22

Home Is

Filed under: Flying,Has Photos,Random,SB Region — John @ 07:37

Someone seems to be building a home on a hillside with magnificent views of the mountains just up from the shoreline we were flying near when I snapped this. It’s not far from Santa Barbara, so one wonders how expensive the property might be.

7193 View Property

7193 View Property

The line of trees will grow into a nice wind break. It seems possible though, that additional factors may have motivated the tree planting. To cite the realtor mantra: location, location, location.

7194 Tajiguas Landfill

7194 Tajiguas Landfill

In this wider view, you can see how the line of trees relates to the neigborhood.

A bit closer to town is this modern hacienda ranch that seems to be centered around equestrian activities, though I only notice two horses in this photo.

7195 Horse Ranch

7195 Horse Ranch

Nearby another pair of structures could be part home and part stables. Though the roofs are different colors, together the two adjoining building outlines seem to spell out a greeting to pilots.

7198 HI Flyers

7198 "HI" Flyers

2010/06/21

Dads Pass?

Filed under: Aviation,Flying,Has Photos,Random,SB Region — John @ 02:23

If you were a CHP officer flying over traffic or sitting in a patrol car on Father’s Day, would you let speeding Dads off with a warning or perhaps come down a bit harder because you’d rather be home with your family?

7110 Traffic Patrol

7110 Traffic Patrol

Whatever your answer, here’s hoping you have a very

Happy Father’s Day!

2010/06/19

Carp and Back

Filed under: Flying,Has Photos,People,Random,SB Region — John @ 03:52

Just half an hour of “engine time” this evening gave us almost an hour of transformative flying. We cruised slowly along the 101 toward Carpinteria, then climbed offshore for a look at the oil platforms. For some reason it’s been quite a while since we looked at them. Usually we’re over the water along the shoreline, or climbing much higher going over to the islands.

7095 Oil Platform

7095 Oil Platform

The shimmering seas remind me of that old TV series “Victory At Sea.”

Then we climbed over Carp toward the Santa Ynez range, deciding whether to cruise West up the valley.

7098 Hazy Hills

7098 Hazy Hills

A glance at the haze helped us choose a gliding descent back toward the Santa Barbara Harbor. At about Butterfly Beach or so I snapped the surf lineup waiting for the next set.

7100 Sunset Surfing

7100 Sunset Surfing

I like how the sand has been stirred into dirty puffs by the larger waves they’re waiting to ride. Sometimes clouds over the Salton Sea look like this, as if this were a view of the sky.

2010/06/16

More Flying Things

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,People,SB Region — John @ 05:51

We thought today would see us flying at least briefly around SB, but our hearts were too heavy. Instead we did a few errands and spent more time looking at photos. So here are a few more from Sunday’s ceremony, and it’s been therapeutic in our adjustment to Molly being in Paris rather than here so tomorrow it’s more likely we’ll get airborne.

There were two categories of things we saw flying Sunday. First was the beach ball so often seen at graduation ceremonies, as if to get us singing along with the speeches.

7007 Bouncing Ball

7007 Bouncing Ball

I have to add another gratuitous photo of Molly, this time during the introduction of her award.

6987 Molly Exalted

6987 Molly Exalted

This was the one glance I caught her taking toward her thrilled family, clearly moved by their joyful tears and cheers.

The second flying object category came at the end when there was a brief cloud of tortillas that apparently take the place of those expensive caps, and as was pointed out they also may be useful in case of extreme hunger.

7046 Flying Food

7046 Flying Food

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