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Within minutes of arriving at the Birch’s home after Claire’s memorial service, a fire started which put a damper on the gathering…
Two pigeons managed to arc two power lines in the valley below the house which resulted in a loud noise and a cloud of smoke and feathers.
It was amazing how fast the fire spread up the valley and impressive how quickly the local fire departments and Los Padres crews knocked down the blaze.
(I was only using a 50mm lens which will give you some idea of how close i was to the action.)
 

Photo slideshow here…

A large group of friends and family gathered to celebrate our friend Claire and and mourn her passing.

The service was awesome and Kelly rocked.
 
Photos from the memorial here…

Piet was in town and we spent the morning extracting bees from a house up on Painted Cave Road.
The honey was super dark, almost looks like avocado honey, yuummm!
Thanks to Karen for the bees and for snapping most of the photos.
The bees are happily buzzing around their new home in Goleta
 
Slideshow photos here…
 

Our congratulations to George and Svetlana who tied the knot this weekend in Santa Barbara!
Here are some photos from the beautiful ceremony at Butterfly Beach.

 
thanks to Sean Tubbs for shooting with me

I have been really digging these two songs recently!

The first song is from The Innocence Mission’s new “my room in the trees” album. Scroll to 2:12 to hear some real prettyness!

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And then for some clever and funny lyrics from one of my all time favorite bands, Die Antwoord [Explicit]:

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