Views on our morning drives to Lompoc

I've meant to post some pictures from along the way to Lompoc every saturday morning, as we make the drive to visit Corey. All summer long, after we've driven about an hour out of Bakersfield (of the 2 1/2 hr drive itself) and crested the first major incline from the valley floor, to drop down into another vast valley called The Cuyama Valley. Its about here the sun breaks for the day, and it is always magnificent to see. Now that our summer has passed, and 'fall' has come to the Valley, it is dark as we leave Bakersfield, and still dark as we drive through this valley where I took these pictures. I wanted to post these because I daresay I won't see the these views ever again, yesterday was our last trip to the visitation room at Lompoc Prison. That part of this journey is behind us.


Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com