John & Anne Wiley

2014/03/28

Home Tourism

We like it when visitors come, because it often gets us out doing the “tourist” things around town. It’s been a while since we visited the Harbor, for example.

140253 Rainy Harbor

140253 Rainy Harbor

So when dear friends from NYC were here on a stormy February day, we enjoyed the reflective views there again. We also discovered the viewing deck atop the Maritime Museum as clouds parted and a rainbow appeared offshore.

165252 Promise of Sun

165252 Promise of Sun

From there, the gull’s eye view out past the Harbor to the city and mountains beyond is more expansive.

165258 Good Gull View

165258 Good Gull View

Over at Stearn’s Wharf which we do seem to visit more often between visitors, we swapped photo ops with our friends. Much more fun than Selfies. 🙂

120243 Looking At Friends

120243 Looking At Friends

2014/03/05

Contrasts

This pic from Feb.10 has us itching to fly over and have a look at Lake Cachuma. It was fun to tour the lake when it was so dry, with scenes like this I call The Squiggle.

1817 The Squiggle

1817 The Squiggle

The dry grass was tall in places, creating artistic shapes and textures like these tuft islands on the edge of what was apparently the shoreline for a time.

1822 Tufts

1822 Tufts

Also on that day, our delightful Edmonton gal discovered the thrill of what for her was warm water. Staying very close to Dad at first, she’d run out after the receding foam and then turn to race for shore when he prompted her. Life is so beautiful.

1798 Meeting Waves

1798 Meeting Waves

2014/02/19

Big Little vDay

We had another wonderful Valentine’s Day this year, with another visit from our daughter and family. The little one melted our hearts, as you can see. 🙂

1783 Heart Melter

1783 Heart Melter

After a wild week of fun, the last of our extended family left Monday afternoon. We decided to get some air in our hair to ease our transition back to a quiet house. One of the new sights on this flight was what looks like a ferro-cement house in the hills. Probably would survive a wildfire, and the inside’s probably fanciful too. I’ll bet the residents love it.

2208 Hobbit Home

2208 Hobbit Home

Life and love take so many forms.

2014/02/11

Forward & Back

Taking off from SBA a few weeks ago, I looked forward along the magical route toward town.

1216 Forward

1216 Forward

Then I turned and looked back toward the airport where our brief enchanted journey had begun.

1220 Back

1220 Back

On that day we were also looking forward to a visit from our daughter and family. Today we’re already looking back at the joy of deep conversation last night and waking with them in our home this morning. Especially our delightful grand daughter. 🙂

114147 Forward & Back

114147 Forward & Back

Now we’re looking forward to watching the little one continue growing into a charming little girl, back to when our daughter was her size, and ahead to more great times with our son-in-law. Including taking him flying today! 🙂

2014/02/04

Up & Down

Today we flew our dear NYC friends out to nearby Santa Cruz Island, and as always it was fun both being with them and visiting our seldom seen park. We got a new view of this one among the numerous rock arches among the sea caves and other natural wonders of this place.

1537 Santa Cruz Arch

1537 Santa Cruz Arch

We got a new view east along the backbone of the island with little Anacapa Island in the distance.

1565 Island Backbone

1565 Island Backbone

After enjoying many new views of this ever-new place we stopped for lunch at the aviation-themed restaurant on Camarillo Airport. Then an enchanted flight home to SBA and a sunset hike down this trail near our place.

1621 Into Art

1621 Into Art

Like the rest of our day, this felt like a journey into art, with conversation bubbling along the trail just as water has bubbled along the rocky stream there on our wet season hikes there.

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