Point Conception Area and Sea Otter Count, lighthouse, Rhinocerous auklet, Grey Whale, we counted over 50 otters – January 16, 2009
January 19, 2009
January 14, 2009
Santa Barbara Cemetery – January 10, 2009
Santa Barbara Cemetery
Santa Barbara Cemetery – January 10, 2009
This is a very peaceful meditative cemetery garden, even though I find it a bit unsettling seeing palm trees, oaks and cyprus together. But that’s Santa Barbara for you. There are special views of the ocean and the mountains from this place. Memorial art with the stone crosses, mausoleums and other markers as well as the flat headstones was a new art form for me to discover. They are putting photo images on stones now, but I worry about how long the ink will hold under the sun and rain. The gentle respect for loved ones and a peoples heart felt gestures to ones no longer here is a sentimental and soothing thing to contemplate while walking around.
The Santa Barbara Cemetery internment dates start at 1860. There are over 46,000 individuals listed for this cemetery. I found a listing of the graves after I went there at CAGenWeb: part of the USGenWeb Project. Actually the google link into the Santa Barbara CAGenWeb site worked best. I wish I would of used the list before I went. However it is nice to have a reason to go back.
I was disappointed that I could not find my grandparents grave. I plan to go back and find Grandma and Grandpa Buse’s Grave using the information I got at the USGenWeb Project site: BUSE, Bertha, F, May 18, 1897, Apr 26, 1980, 82, SB, CA, WELCH RYCE HAIDER, Apr 29, 1980, Mountain View, Block- C- Grave- 238 and BUSE, Fred, C., M, Jul 8, 1900, Apr 13, 1973, 72 SB, CA, WELCH RYCE, Apr 26, 1973, Mountain View, Block- C- Grave- 237.
December 21, 2008
Sands – December 21, 2008
Sands – December 21, 2008 (shortest day of the year) a few waves coming in as the tide drops
December 14, 2008
Burn Area – Santa Barbara Tea Fire, November 2008
These photos were taken November 30, 2008 while riding in a car on the freeway. It was a very dry year and a warm summer so the mountains were ripe for fires. The mountains above Goleta had a fire in July called the Gap fire and the mountains above SantaBarbara had the November Tea Fire.
December 1, 2008
September thru November 2008
Coal Oil Point Reserve, Including the views of the Gap fire burn area
September thru November 2008
November 22, 2008
Kids In Nature
Kids in Nature at Coal Oil Point Reserve – November 2008
University of California Santa Barbara, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration’s Kids in Nature program comes to Coal Oil Point Reserve for three Thursdays in November.
October 28, 2008
C Street (California Street) Ventura, CA – October 25, 2008
The last swell was so north that it payed off to go down south on Saturday and surf C Street.
October 6, 2008
Sands and Dev October 5, 2008
Surf shots of Sands and Devereux on a North Swell (290 degrees) with some bump on it. October 5, 2008
October 3, 2008
First little swell of the fall
First little swell of the Fall
Surfing at Devereux and Sands – October 2, 2008
September 22, 2008
Sands Sept 21, 2008
Sands and Devereux show a little surf energy the last day of summer, Sept 21, 2008
