May Grey Photos

Sunday, May 5, 2013
Butterfly Beach Fog Season
Santa Barbara is always beautiful, to the point that some people think we don't hardly have seasons here. But maybe you just have to look at them a little differently. Winter sunset season just ended, at the beginning of that was butterfly season, when the Monarchs come home to roost. We're now entering fog season. Locals have lots of names for it, most commonly "June Gloom", or before that "May Grey" but the fog is rarely solid and complete as those names make it sound. It's beautiful and wispy, it dances beautifully as it rolls in and out. Sometimes it hugs the coast and the ocean where from inside it may seem grey. But get above or beside it like this and it's an amazing soft blanket hugging the city.
beach 165 | Butterfly Beach 61 | California 495 | coast 19 | Coral Casino 3 | evening 287 | fog 21 | June Gloom 6 | marine layer 8 | May Grey 1 | Montecito 72 | mountain 78 | ocean 266 | Pacific Ocean 145 | palm tree 133 | Santa Barbara 539 | sky 193 | sunset 317 | twilight 31 | water 278