#10 negative - helicopters

august will be the last month of the sky is big in pasadena.  

i have accepted a position at salford mennonite church in harleysville, pennsylvania.  we will be moving in september, so august will be my farewell month to the city of pasadena.  when we moved here from virginia i posted a list of the ten things i would miss most about harrisonburg.  i figured that would be a good way to end our time here, so each day i will be doing one final rundown of life in this great city.  i have prepared two lists - ten things i won't be sad to leave behind, and twenty of my absolute favorite things about pasadena.  i am going to start with ten positives and ten negatives, alternating back and forth each day.  concluding with my top ten things about life in pasadena.

here is the first negative about pasadena...

#10 negative - helicopters

i'm sure there is a good reason for having noisy flying machines buzzing overhead...  news, traffic, and police all use them i'm sure.  but for the amount of noise they create, and the time of day they fly (usually late in the evening), they are certainly one thing i will not miss about this city.

something in the sky

weird things were happening yesterday. channel 4 news was parked in the vons grocery store parking lot and a helicopter was circling overhead. no one seemed to know why, but everyone was gathered around watching it. maybe the gray skies? that is a rarity in pasadena - usually you can see the mountains from here, but they were barely visible. if it was a traffic copter, why was the van parked at vons? start your speculation. maybe there is something i'm missing...

neon lights of a search helicopter

taken at night, this is a picture of a search helicopter. they hover around our lovely city quite often. not sure if they are looking for criminals, traffic problems, or celebrities, but they are noisy and love flashing their bright searchlights around. one night we were convinced their concentric circles started right at our fuller apartment complex.

this is probably the worst quality of a photo ever shown on my blog, but it speaks volumes about where we live and therefore until a better picture is taken, it deserves it's spot here - especially because it's such a big part of the pasadena sky.