John & Anne Wiley

2012/06/11

Housing Geometry

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,People,Random,SB Region — John @ 01:52

Some homes explore geometry beyond the rectangular shapes most of us live in. This collection is between Carp and Ojai.

1882 Country Geometry

1882 Country Geometry

I like how the angular buildings complement the round landscaping in this first one. Also the contrasting colors of the trees. Next up is a hillside fortress with sloping walls.

1883 Slope Shapes

1883 Slope Shapes

The complex geometric shapes mix well with the sloping stone walls and wandering paths. This last one is massive, and though there’s a clump of rectangles at the core it has some other shapes mixed in. There’s a well-tended estate around it extending beyond this pic. Imagine floating in that indoor/outdoor pool and paddling out to the edge to take in their marvelous view.

1899 UnSquare Feet

1899 UnSquare Feet

2012/06/07

Bowl Of

Filed under: Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,People,Random,Relationships,SB Region — John @ 05:57

Life is a bowl of cherries. Some add a comment about the pits, but I like to focus on how sweet life can be. Playing with a new camera at the farmer’s market it was fun trying to capture the essence of cherry.

0007 Bowl of Cherries

0007 Bowl of Cherries

As she was about to sample one, I caught the sweeter essence of a cherry with the fingers of my favorite human.

0006 Free Sample

0006 Free Sample

Later we paused passing Alameda Park for a very different mood. Light slanting among the chorus of trees and a couple in quiet company sing a different harmony of life’s fleeting sweetness.

0017 Tree Song

0017 Tree Song

2012/06/03

Old California

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,People,Random,Relationships,SB Region — John @ 10:49

Walking the mission area is relaxing, connecting with how it was here in past centuries. Yet we often discover something that’s new to us. This bell tower between the mission front and the seminary might have once housed the bells.

0541 Missing Bells

0541 Missing Bells

The big fountain in front of the mission is an ageless magnet for kids, and their watchful parents who navigate that ageless line between protection and freedom as their child teeters along the wall or leans to splash.

0544 Water Child

0544 Water Child

This visit, a new fascination for me was the sculptures over the mission roof. I like how the afternoon light played on the top one.

0545 Roof People

0545 Roof People

I presume her anchor honors the maritime history of Santa Barbara, and the brave souls lost at sea over the years.

0545 Anchor

0545 Anchor

From the front her anchor is invisible, and her visage changes. Probably more religious in theme, yet to me this could be a contemporary young woman in a hoodie engaged in quiet conversation.

0551 Quiet Maiden

0551 Quiet Maiden

Across the street on the expanse of lawn next to the rose garden, some young maidens were enjoying themselves, the weather, the setting and each other in just such a dialog at this gentle place where old California is renewed.

0559 Relaxed Conversation

0559 Relaxed Conversation

2012/05/27

Fresh

Filed under: Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,People,Random,Relationships,SB Region — John @ 07:58

Spring is fresh and green here. Farmer’s markets abound, with one somewhere around town most every day of the week. One of the most colorful is the Saturday market downtown, and the first sign we saw approaching it yesterday was the people carrying fresh local flowers as they headed home on the street.

0234 Colors for Home

0234 Colors for Home

Among the many carefully adorned stalls, the people are colorful too. This woman with young child and a box of fresh organic local strawberries kindly paused for my camera.

0232 Wholesome

0232 Wholesome

To me this pic could be Europe, and it also has fresh flavors of times long past. Or an advertisement for wholesome food to nourish your family. A few minutes later nearing home we stopped to admire the crisp mountain view and a swallow dancing between insect snacks in the clear Spring air.

0235 Cloud, Bird, Mountain

0235 Cloud, Bird, Mountain

Strolling amid the bright smell of pepper trees, I contemplated moments and memories. Every season overflows with moments, each so precious yet most not noticed. Some become memories, and some are chosen by an unknown formula to become pix that can represent an essence of our memories or maybe trigger an impulse in us to take yet another fresh look around.

0240 Fresh Look

0240 Fresh Look

2012/05/25

Perches

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,People,Random,SB Region — John @ 07:35

People like perches. High places with a view. Some like this place I call the Castle are presumably just wonderful places to Be and Look.

0107 SYV Castle

0107 SYV Castle

It has a commanding view of Santa Ynez Valley, and is designed to make the most of that with tiers of windows in a turret capped with skylights. I enjoy imagining being there and looking on sunny days and starry nights, or when a sudden storm rushes across the valley.

Not far away is this hole in a rock wall that was surely a perch for earlier generations. How many people lived there, looking out at the smaller view or climbing to the “roof” and taking in the panorama across to the islands?

0128 Keyhole Cave

0128 Keyhole Cave

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