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It was a beautiful weekend in Santa Barbara, the sun was out, it wasn’t freezing or raining, and it seemed like everyone was in a good mood. This picture was the view looking up from my driveway, bright and early in the morning!

Lovely, but chilly night at Butterfly beach

Butterfly beach is a classic spot in Santa Barbara, so many locals and tourists go there to enjoy the lovely beach. Butterfly Beach is especially pretty at night when you can see the full moon, the lights from the peer, the tall palm trees, and the glow of the city and the Coral Casino.

Butterfly beach with a lovely bright orange sky

Santa Barbara has so many amazing views and beautiful sunsets, this is just on of many on a lovely winter night.

The purple water at Butterfly beach that same night, right before the sky turned orange

I think that the winter has some of the most beautiful skies, the summer has its warm long nights, but the winter has those amazing bright clouds and vibrant sunsets, along with peaceful cool mornings.

Hope ranch beach back when it was still warm out at night

Hope ranch with Michelle, left, me middle, and Ella, right.

Hope Ranch is another one of my favorites. The path down to the beach makes you feel like your walking through Costa Rica, and the beach is private so when you make it down the path, there is never anyone there, it really does feel like a secluded island.

The sky the night of the Montectio Debris flow that devastated our community

This is the night sky when the mud slides happed, a very sad night for our whole community, the darkness and little bit of light in this picture reminds me of that night and how there will always be a little light to your darkness.

The hazy, foggy, and cold night, where the clouds basically touched the stand on Miramar Beach

Miramar beach is my favorite place in Santa Barbara, my parents would take me there almost every day during the summer when I was a baby up to when I was about 6, (thats when my sister was born.) Some of my best childhood memories were on that beach.

Thanks for reading my blog, stay tuned for next weeks addition of Hawkes Tales, comment if you liked “Santa Barbara Skies!”

-Haley Hawkes

It was a crazy, cold, and rainy week in SB! But it definitely was beautiful at Butterfly beach in the moonlight. ~

Even though we were practically freezing, the moon was so bight and beautiful we had to see what it was like at the beach that late at night. Turns out it was a whole lot of cold mixed with a whole lot of pretty, at least this was before the storm.

Our entire back yard was flooded!~

During the heavy rains this week there was an evacuation in Montectio, that’s where I live. Our house was right in the middle of both evacuation zones, so we were told to “shelter in place,” that was apparently the safest thing to do. The rain was coming down hard Friday, and especially Saturday Morning. The freeways were flooded, the streets were flooded, and the creeks were full to the brim. It seemed like it was muddy and wet everywhere. Our family, pets and house was luckily ok, but there was some pretty serious flooding in our yard. My little siblings put on their rain gear, and played in the muddy mess for what seemed like hours. In the picture above, thats my little brother Cole, age 7, he’s very outdoorsy and the first thing he did was go straight to the newly formed swamp in our yard.

This is another picture of our yard, of course there are toys everywhere, it’s a mess!

The picture above is when the rain finally started to slow down, Saturday at around noon. The yard was like one huge puddle! We couldn’t let the pony out of her paddock for days, she would try to role in the water. But at least the kids had fun splashing around in the muddy water.

This is Paige all bundled up, posing on Stuart’s truck, with her phone she’s dropped about 100 times. ~

After the crazy storm that weekend, and some rain earlier that week it got sunny! But not the warm beach day sunny, the 36 degrees, ice on your windows sunny. It was cold!

This is Tiffany, warm and cozy in the MAD lounge.

During this cold weather the best thing to do is bundle up and find a cozy chair, the MAD lounge at Santa Barbara High is definitely one of the best places to get away from the cold this week.

Tiffany again, posing on the truck in the bright bright sun! ~ Peace!~

It was a cold and rainy week, but it was a fun one too, there are plenty of adventures to have even when your stuck at home, or trying to stay warm at school.

More blogs coming! Stay tuned for next week, and comment if you liked this weeks rainy day addition!

Thanks for reading my blog,

-Haley Hawkes

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