Ventura County – Page 16 – Ink, Yarn & Beer

A View to the East

Sunday morning we went out for a hike in the local open space. The coastal ranges are beautiful right now because of the rains, so long missing from our climate, and returning because of El Nino. Yesterday’s photo was facing west; this is what lay behind me. A green and misty land, with a deep gorge to the right, a ridge to the left which, should I climb it, will bring me down into another valley. Spring!

BTW, this is another panorama, taken with 17 images and merged in LR 6.5. Gotta love the digital darkroom!

A Morning in the Hills

The rains have arrived in California, easing a four-year drought. Brown has turned to green and the miracle of life returns. I took this yesterday morning around 7 a.m., heading west with the sun behind me. This is a pano of two images, using the Nikon V1 and 32mm lens.

A View of the Pacific

Having grown up in a land-locked part of the country, the ocean always fascinates me. I took this, sitting on a cliff overlooking the great, blue Pacific, on the edge of a continent, on the border of an ocean, thousands of miles east of another continent completely unknown to me.

Edge

A Day at the Movies, Sorta

The Windows

Above, what looks rather ominous (IMHO), are really windows from which cameras could shoot water scenes. I think the African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, was shot here….maybe from these windows as they floated along!

Corriganville Park was originally part of the California movie industry. According to Wikipedia:

Corriganville Movie Ranch was a working film studio and movie ranch for outdoor location shooting, as well as a Western-themed tourist attraction. The ranch, owned by actor and stuntman Ray “Crash” Corrigan, is located in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains in the Santa Susana Pass area of Simi Valley in eastern Ventura County, California. The site is a public park in the City of Simi Valley, called Corriganville Park, and operated by Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District.

It’s a really nice little park, now, with large eucalyptus trees, rocks, derelict relics from the days it was part of the movie industry, and a variety of beautiful views and plants and trees native to the region.

It is also enjoyed by the locals. I went out with a small meetup group, leaving the house at 7:15 a.m. to get there by 8. Given it was 93 F by the time I headed home at 10:15 a.m., it was a good thing to be there early. As well, the light was gorgeous. This, combined with companionable people, made for a nice way to begin the weekend and end my 10-week summer break.