John & Anne Wiley

2012/01/16

Slices

Filed under: Aviation,Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,Random,SB Region — John @ 19:35

Most flights in the Santa Barbara region provide a bounty of panoramas. Sadly, few photos capture even a slice of this overwhelming beauty. Even so, I like these slices more than many I’ve snapped. Taking off from runway 15L, if air traffic is light sometimes I request a left crosswind shoreline departure that provides the panorama hinted at by this slice.

9529 Shoreline Departure

9529 Shoreline Departure

On this day ATC changed their mind and had me fly North toward the mountains, turning our side window panorama and providing this slice that crosses the first one.

9531 Turned Slice

9531 Turned Slice

Reaching the 101 freeway, ATC turned us again to fly East until the freeway winds toward the South. That offers yet another slice of paradise beyond the friendly municipal golf course.

9539 Paradise Slice

9539 Paradise Slice

As you probably know, having landed in every state and province North of Mexico, we still find our region the most beautiful and diverse. Even a few minutes aloft in this area provides a heart full of soul soothing scenes that these pix only hint at with serene slices.

2012/01/15

Interface

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,People,Random,Relationships,SB Region — John @ 06:12

For many years the interface between computers and people has been very interesting to me. Even in today’s cutting edge technology it can often feel as if we’re pounding our “wetware” (brains) against an unyielding machine. Even if the machine can now be carried in our pocket.

Whether due to being a California native or due to another aspect of interface fascination, I’m drawn to the places where things and people meet. Like the base of Morro Rock, where the sea relentlessly carves out caves from the solid stone.

9189 Morro Rock Cave

9189 Morro Rock Cave

Back toward the South, Montaña De Oro harbors an interface of grass and sand, air and water, waves and stone, in a symphony of Life. Every time I look at this next photo, my heart rate slows and breathing deepens. The quiet mood evoked by timeless beauty fills my soul with the misty distant throb of surf.

9223 Meeting Place

9223 Meeting Place

Families interfacing children and elders stroll and scramble these soft and hard shapes, and lone souls find solace. The abundance of life you can see thrives atop layers of unseen life slowly digesting the stone and absorbing the sand. I see parts of that story written in this slab of sandstone being pounded for millennia by earthquakes and peeled away by the prying waves of sea and life of all sizes and sorts.

9229 Tablet Computer

9229 Tablet Computer

This stone tablet stores the tale and computes the story of this place, the perfect interface.

2012/01/14

High Surf

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Inner World,Nature,People,Random,SB Region — John @ 02:54

We missed flying out to the islands to see the recent high surf, but at least I got this high view of the more normal surf out at Rincon. 🙂

9557 Surf Shape

9557 Surf Shape

When I let go of knowing what it is, the shapes and textures in this snap evoke some abstract art. Such a beautiful world we have!

2012/01/11

Relaxing

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,Random,SB Region — John @ 02:14

I enjoyed a deep breath just now, remembering how relaxing our morning in Avila Beach was. Great conversation with friends and family, strolling the town and waterfront, and this scene riding the trolley back to Tripp.

9122 Trolley Tour

9122 Trolley Tour

Looking to the right into the sun, the peaceful bay deepened the relaxation.

9131 Warm Bay

9131 Warm Bay

Not much more than an hour later we were flying past the same spots on our way to circle familiar Morro Rock, when I snapped this view of the bay with the sun behind us.

9316 Tripp Tour

9316 Tripp Tour

Relaxing and fun as the trolley tour was, this Tripp Tour went far beyond relaxing into the realm of enchanting refreshment. At the point of the bay, this old lighthouse (now apparently without Fresnel lens) stands as a beacon for tourists.

9326 Avila Light

9326 Avila Light

The calm bay and Avila Beach Pier evoke stillness in my soul again, capturing in this pic the quiet I felt suspended in calm late afternoon air after the memorial we attended there the evening before.

9360 Inner Quiet

9360 Inner Quiet

When I leave this plane, maybe I can soar silently and effortlessly again over scenes such as this.

2012/01/10

Time

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,Random,Relationships,SB Region — John @ 01:57

Often flying will emphasize different aspects of time. Whether recalling childhood dreams and events or keeping one eye on a clock, flying enhances not just the vertical dimension but also the temporal. On our flight to Avila Beach, I happened to snap this scene on the way there and again on the way back. It’s an area on the South side of the mountains that we pass on that route. Like the other aspects of time, familiar things can appear to us quite different.

9072 Timing is Everything

9072 Timing is Everything

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