Dave McCoy Photography

We spent Saturday with our daughter Kandi at her ranch in Camarillo.

It was a good visit. We got some shots of the flowers, Kandi and her husband Rusty’s equestrian practice, and her son Matty and his crazy art. Have a look.

-Dave

The bee lives in a honeycomb in an avocado tree on the ranch. I need to take a picture of that hive next time I’m there. This is Kandi, preparing for dinner.
This is Rusty at work. He is a nationally-ranked rider. And there goes Kandi… This is Matty and his girlfriend Kari, enjoying the beautiful June weather. Matty is a painter. He is very popular in the art world, but I think his style is a generation or two ahead of me!

On friday, Roma, Penny and I headed south to visit Kandi.

The trip from Bishop to Camarillo is short, but covers a lot of miles. The scenery is always changing. It is impossible to describe the landscape there.

Friday was a windy one, and we have pictures to prove it with blowing flags, dust storms and spinning windmills.

Our next entry will be completely different, with flowers, horses and an easy day with the ocean breeze.

-Dave

The first picture above is in Big Pine. The flags are tattered from the wind.

Below is from Owens Lake. If you look closely, you can see the lake behind the blowing dust.

This is outside of Lone Pine. The road on that mountain leads to trailheads that take adventurous hikers to Golden Trout Country. It’s famous for Golden Trout fishing and backpacking South and West of Mt. Whitney. At times, paragliders are all over up there. 

This is near Red Rock State Park, which is somewhere right in between Bishop and Los Angeles. We always find this area interesting.  This is the airplane storage facility in Mojave. Airlines and private pilots store planes here that aren’t in use. It’s a great place to leave them because the low humidity keeps them from deteriorating. There commercial 747s’ out there, as well as Russian Migs that the Air Force uses for training missions.
These windmills are near the turn to Tehachapi. There are so many of them, I’m not sure how the wind can get by. This is the CalTech Owens Valley Radio Observatory.  This is the Inyo County Court House in Independence. In 1935-36, when I live there, I used to rollerskate around that walkway. The courthouse looks exactly the same now as it did then. I also worked in Jim’s Restaurant in Independence. After a good skate, I always had an appetite for the food at Jim’s.  This is the old salt-processing plant on Owens Lake. It was in use until sometime in the mid-1950s’.  This is a butte near Inyokern.