Blue Skies....smilin' at me

Our house is near the edge of a plateau or bluff, and when you look over the edge you see a town called Oildale. This town, as the name implies, is full of oil pumps and so the view isn't exactly breathtaking. After a huge rain storm in Dec. I was driving along Panorama which runs along the edge, and I saw a sight I had never seen. Oildale--not shrouded in pollution! To give my friends and family who don't live here an idea of how bad it is, I took some pictures that day and some more just the other day when the view was what I normally see when I drive down Panorama. Now to be fair, I don't drive this way every day, but in three years of living here I have honestly never seen the view like this. I never knew what (if anything) was beyond that wall of haze.

A rare blue sky

A typical day here in good ol' Bakersfield.