Westmont...

Last weekend we also visited Westmont on our trip to Santa Barbara. We wanted to see what the campus looks like after the fires and spend some time in one of our favorite places. It was sad for me to see that so much of it doesn't look like my memories. But new life is already starting to grow amidst the damage and my favorite parts of campus were mostly spared! Thank you God!

English Dept is almost completely unseen from the road because of all the temporary buildings on the "lawn." It's not really a lawn right now.

Fire raged down the middle of campus burning most of a major river bed area that is typically completely green. These are the parking lots below VK.

This is from the parking lot below the Physics building which is really not a parking lot at all right now, mostly just a construction zone. Through the machinery you can see the track area.

This is on the far side of the library. They are starting construction on the new Arts Building here, looks like the fire swept through this area also.

Page Hall

The hills behind Page Hall

From the Page Hall parking lot you can see straight through to the ocean because so much of the greenery is gone.

This is near Kerrwood Hall, looking towards the mailboxes

Looking towards the gardens from Kerwood Hall

After seeing Westmont we drove around in the hills to see the rest of Montecito. It's sort of hard to tell from the photos but you can see the hillsides here that are just gone...

Brent took some great videos to really show "walking tour style" what things look like in the middle of campus. Enjoy...