Monarch Preserve Goleta CA

The family recently went on a little walk to the Coronado Butterfly Preserve in Goleta CA. For information: http://www.sblandtrust.org/coronado.html

Brazil

We recently took a family vacation to Brazil. We flew into Sao Paulo then drove along the coast to Rio. Here are a couple pics from the journey.

So I got a little busy...

It has been a couple days since my last post. While I was away Ewan was born. Now he is almost 17 months old. Time really flies.

Vistors 01/30/2010

A few weeks ago we had Bill, Krista, and Molly for a visit. Molly just happens to be my favorite photo subject in addition to being my GD. We made a trip to the farmers market as well as campus point around sunset. I am including a shot of Bill and Krista mainly to document that "thing."



Molly had a nice time at the beach. With the 10 mm lens she really looks like a giant.





I really like this shot of Abby and Molly up close.

Jesusita Trail 02/13/2010

A couple weekends ago we took a hike with Dan to check out wild flowers on Jesusita Trail in Santa Barbara. The Abacus took most of the flower photos. I am including one of my favorites that she didn't post just so you see that we saw flowers.



I tried to frame a shot of cactus in a gate during a rest break on the hike.



The photographic highlight came when The Abacus spotted an alligator lizard in the trail. Dan has a nice 100mm macro lens. After he took a few shots he loaned it to me. I really like the eye.

Yellowood Bluffs

We took a walk on Saturday to check out the spring flowers. We are really lucky to be able to walk here from our house.

Big Surf

A couple weekends ago we took a walk from Goleta Beach out to Campus Point on UCSB campus to check out the surfers. There had been some storms to the surf was very big. Take a look.