Now that Luca is 16 months, he's walking really well, and prefers to be walking rather than in the stroller, unless he's really tired.  He runs after the dogs, and picks up all sorts of things on the ground, which usually make it into his mouth.  Luckily, the weather is awesome (except for the massive 3 day wildfire, raining ash and carbon monoxide), so we can walk to the dog off leash Douglas Preserve, and to the beach. 

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Outa the Strolla	Diesel & Luca	Ok, See Ya!	Lara & Tree Headstand
Luca & Mom Headstand	Dad & Babe	Hendry's Beach	Squat
Look, Beach	Beach House	Cartwheel	Hi
Hi Daddy	First Haircut	You Want One?	The Salon
Smokey Sunset	Lara Luca Lorraine	Endless Summer	Into the Ocean

The fires are burning away in Montecito.  We are ok and had a couple of power outages last night.  Today is very smokey and there is ash everywhere.  Before the fire broke out there was that hot blow dryer air blowing from the valley.  We took Luca to the park and checked out the sunset before bedtime.

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Lara

Sunset

Channel Islands Sunset

Shoreline Park Sunset

Beautiful evenings here in Santa Barbara.  It is getting colder, mornings are at 46 degrees, but days usually reach the 70s in the sun.  The water is so temping to Luca, but is very cold for him.  The beach is great though, so much to explore, and so much space for the dogs to run.  So much amazing beauty here.

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Baby Beach House	Kane's 1st BDay at Shelley's Beach House	On the bridge Away	On the bridge Home
Little Slide	Low Tide this afternoon	Live Oak	Twilight Energy
Full Moon Rising	Watching	In the Twilight	Morning Walk @ Douglas Preserve

We had a great mini trip to the Bay Area last weekend. It was so nice to see all of our family. I went for a awesome bike ride on Tam and Lara got to go back to her old Yoga digs. On the drive back down to SB it was raining cats and dogs.  We have figured out that if we leave at 6 pm when Luca goes to sleep we can have a nice quiet trip.   The sun is back so life is good. The ocean has been like a like and wonderful to gaze at while running.  Today we got caught up on our chores and gave the solar panels a scrub.

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Luca Halloween	Spiderman Luca	Kindermusic Peeps	Kinderween
Cute	Makena Eve and Angie	Playing in the park	Fall leaves
Erik at Facebook	Little friends	Luca and Lara at Facebook	Luca at the discovery museum
Loves Music	Big Blocks	Secret Spot on Tam	Ethan and Aaron
The view of San Geronimo valley	Happy Sleep	Starting Early	Cleaning Solar panels

Apple Pro ( http://www.apple.com/pro ) Occasionally puts up profiles of pros using Apple gear.  They used to update it more often but maybe now that everyone uses macs there is no reason to... The latest PROfile is on Andrew Zuckerman's new project Wisdom which combines images and interviews with some of the most iconic figures of our time.  There is a  great writeup and four videos on the project. http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/wisdom/index.html

Lara met Emilee at the park a few weeks ago with Luca.  She has been taking Luca to the park a couple times a week so Lara can get some work done.  It tuns out Emilee is a amazing flutist and needed some photos for her upcoming concert.  I love shooting portraits so was glad to offer.  We shot these at the beach at sunset using one strobe firing through a diffuser & umbrella and gelled to match the sun's color temperature.  It was a lot of fun and always great to be shooting in such a beautiful place.

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Hair in the wind

In the shade

Perspective

Having Fun

Well after a beautiful sunny weekend the fog is back.  Lara did a yoga workshop up in Ojai for most of the weekend so it was just Luca and I.  We had a great time together playing and exploring.  At the beach he wants to just jump in water and play.  At 60 degrees though the blue lips come too fast.  It is amazing how fast Luca is growing & learning.

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Stair master	Strolling the Boardwalk	Stroller Trip	Hmm Rattlesnakes?
Moo Cow Milk	Blue Skies	Ojai Yoga Crib	Downtown Ojai
Downtown Ojai	Running with Rocks	Wet Diesel Hug	Rye is next

I have been playing around with Ruby on Rails for the past week.

Everything is so different than Drupal which I have been working with over the past year.  It seems like I spend so much time hacking away at Drupal to properly display my output in a themable manner. Drupal 6 is better but still a bit grey as far as documentation is concerned.

Here is how I would some up the two:
Drupal = a over grown Bonsai Bush that you have to hack down to size.

Ruby on Rails =  a sparse tree that you only grow the leaves you need.

Lots going on in our lives.  Kindermusic, Yoga, Podcasts, Websites & Luca.

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Hi!	Top of the world!	New Dog Bed Arrives	Kindermusic Peeps
Yay Guitar!	Luca and Lara	Santa Barbara Beach	Emilee Playing the flute.

Got a few good ones.  I just added a Santa Barbara Gallery page.  Harvest moons are the best

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Moonrise Santa Barbara

Moonrise Santa Barbara

Twilight Santa Barbara

Lighthouse Sunset, Santa Barbara