John & Anne Wiley

2015/10/26

Funville

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,People,Random,SB Region — John @ 21:40

Santa Barbara isn’t just beautiful with great weather most days, it’s also Funville every day. People out enjoying Ledbetter Beach as usual on Saturday.

2600 Languorous Ledbetter

2600 Languorous Ledbetter

There’s always something fun going on around town too. Like this zombie Thriller dance on East Beach.

2538 Thriller

2538 Thriller

Actually on this day a long stretch of Cabrillo Blvd. along the beach was closed for a street fair (Open Streets as I recall), and not far from this gathering was another that was already winding down to make way for evening activities.

2541 Street Fair

2541 Street Fair

Just offshore people were gathering in sailboats of all sizes, adding to the similarly diverse power boats.

2588 Sailor Cluster

2588 Sailor Cluster

Heading out toward deeper water was the Ocean Institute’s beautiful 1770’s privateer replica Spirit of Dana Point (aka Pilgrim of Newport) tall ship with a deck load of fans (mostly out of view on the upwind side) enjoying the breeze, spectacular views in every direction, and some sort of buffet.

2519 Spirit of Dana Point

2519 Spirit of Dana Point

2015/10/04

Unknown

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,Random,SB Region — John @ 06:45

Some images convey to me a sense of the unknown. Some mysterious feeling of the space beyond words. Do you get any such experience from this?

1136 Shadows

1136 Shadows

2015/10/02

Homeward

Filed under: Coasting Adventure,Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,Random,SB Region — John @ 08:57

We paused the drive from Big Sur back to Tripp in SLO many times, and this is one of the more colorful spots nearing San Simeon.

0891 Big Sur Colors

0891 Big Sur Colors

Before long we were flying across the arid rolling hills of Santa Maria Valley where dancing water had once carved now parched dry creeks.

0958 Moist Memories

0958 Moist Memories

Soon we crested the mountains near familiar Lizard’s Mouth where the little “Witch’s Hat” cave caught the shifting colors of a sun settling into drowsy stillness.

1027 Witch's Hat

1027 Witch’s Hat

We were back in the spell of our charming little city sprawled below as lights already began to twinkle where sun had already departed. Enchanting as every journey is, there’s no place like home.

2015/09/19

Coast Colors

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Nature,People,Random,SB Region — John @ 07:46

Sometimes the colors along our coast are just breathtaking, like the blue in this wave fan shape around Rincon dotted with surfers.

0372 Rincon Fan

0372 Rincon Fan

Other times we see very different colors, like the Andree Clark Bird Refuge where drought has turned the water toward some strange palette. To me there are notes of pink, purple, salmon and others. When we drove by it on that same day there were birds diving for fish. Maybe out of habit?

0395 Unknown Colors

0395 Unknown Colors

2015/09/17

Silent Roar

Filed under: Aviation,Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,People,Random,SB Region — John @ 07:21

Old airports are fascinating to me, because they evoke the presence of the past. SBA has a spiffy new airline terminal and many recent upgrades, yet here and there are remnants of the past. Like these two hangars left over from WWII when top gun pilots prepared to fight with the Corsair, one of our best aircraft of that conflict. Looking at these derelict hangars you can almost smell oily exhaust, and in the silence hear the distant echo of a giant radial engine’s defiant roar.

9980 Fading Memories

DSC_9980-b29980 Fading Memories

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