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!

2012/01/13

More ‘O Morro

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Nature,Random,SB Region — John @ 02:16

Morro Rock has fascinated me since childhood, so after riding the cute trolley from Avila and then bus from Pismo back to Oceano, we hopped into Tripp for the quick flight up to visit The Rock.

9139 Morro Rock

9139 Morro Rock

Looking at the pix that evening, I noticed what appear to be several rock cairns on top.

9141 Markers

9141 Markers

As you may have seen on my Edhat post (click link in right column here to see it), people commented about the various people who place such markers. Some back into prehistoric times, apparently, but I don’t know if it was a”guy thing” then too. Something I did notice from the air this time is a feature on the West face you might call Birdshit Falls. Looks like the roosting birds produce runoff that joins a seasonal waterfall. It lands in some very lush vegetation at the bottom that are probably very happy plants with all those processed fish nutrients.

9143 Dropping Falls

9143 Dropping Falls

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.

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