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The perpetual color of Southern California during the summer is blue. Blue skies, blue water on the beaches (for some, blue cars). It's what everyone who thinks they know something about California knows (with the obvious exception of the Hollywood sign). Heck, that's all I knew about California for the first 25 years of my life.
Odd colors and views abound, most notably in the hills and canyons that are so plentiful here. On Saturday morning I pulled together some photos from this summer to document one persons view on a typical California Season. I pulled a couple pictures to use here.
First we've got the western Simi Hills in their typical summer brown.
On the day after the hottest day of the summer, we had some very weird light effects all afternoon and on my way home from errand I noticed how peculiar it looked. This is one of the shots I took that afternoon.
The last photo was taken last week near sunset. The color bands were a result of the smoke tail from Day (or Sespe) fire up in the Los Padres National Forest drifting down across western Ventura County. The fire continues to burn and I read recently that the area had not burned since the early 60's, leaving plenty of kindling.
