Glimpses: Mountain House Kite Festival

When the schools in Mountain House close for the summer holidays, the community gets ready for the annual Kite Festival. Mountain House Kite Festival 2018 took place over the...
Mountain House Kite Festival 2018

When the schools in Mountain House close for the summer holidays, the community gets ready for the annual Kite Festival. Mountain House Kite Festival 2018 took place over the weekend that just went by — June 2nd to be precise. The Kite Festival took place at Mountain House’s own Central Park. At the event there was live music, food and games for the kids.

And then, there were the kites. And a stall selling kites.

Some glimpses from the kite festival:

Mountain House Kite Festival 2018

Kites at the Mountain House Kite Festival 2018

Mountain House Kite Festival 2018

There were some professionals giving kite-flying demonstrations too.

A band playing at the Mountain House Kite Festival 2018.

Music at the festival.

Kites at the Mountain House Kite Festival - 2018

Kites at the Mountain House Kite Festival - 2018

Bounce Houses and water slides at the Mountain House Kite Festival – 2018.

Mountain House Kite Festival – Sights and Sounds:

Did you know that Mountain House CA lies in California’s Central Valley, close to the Diablo range? And that it gets very windy over here, in late spring? (Yeah, the wind here is known to topple those big trash cans, break fences and blow away not-so-heavy patio furniture. Here’s a sample of the famous Mountain House wind — watch till the end of the video)

Ever heard of Mountain House?

Mountain House is a still-being-developed planned-city in San Joaquin County in Northern California. It lies somewhere between Livermore, CA and Tracy, CA and not very far from the Altamont Pass. I think I’ll have to show you more of the place. That, soon. (It’s quite a pretty place. :))

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28 Comments on this post.
  • A shutterBug Explores
    4 June 2018 at 5:50 pm
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    Gorgeous kites and wonderful photos! So colorful and fun!

    Happy Times to you,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

    • dNambiar
      5 June 2018 at 5:08 pm
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      Yeah, it was quite colorful. I thought I had more pictures than I seem to have actually taken. 😀

      I hope you’ve been having some warm days up there.
      Have a good week, Carol. 🙂

  • Sachin Baikar
    4 June 2018 at 7:12 pm
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    Informative post with beautiful pics
    ? Dee
    Thanks for sharing ?

    • dNambiar
      5 June 2018 at 5:09 pm
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      Thank YOU, Sachin.

  • Jyotirmoy Sarkar
    4 June 2018 at 11:00 pm
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    Beautiful clicks.

    • dNambiar
      5 June 2018 at 5:52 pm
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      Thank you, Jyotirmoy.

  • rupam { xhobdo }
    5 June 2018 at 12:27 am
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    Amazing pics. Loved Kite festival.

    • dNambiar
      5 June 2018 at 5:54 pm
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      Thank you, Rupam.

  • Yogi saraswat
    5 June 2018 at 1:56 am
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    I could not learn to fly Kite (: but love it very much . Very beautiful and colorful kites are there in your post .

    • dNambiar
      5 June 2018 at 5:55 pm
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      Neither can I (fly a kite, I mean) but it’s fun to watch — to look at the colors of the kites and watch the wind take them higher and higher.
      Thank you, Yogi.

  • Photo Cache
    5 June 2018 at 7:58 am
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    I live in the East Bay and a former colleague’s sister lives in Mountain House and she keeps on talking about going there. For the life of me, I don’t know where it is located.

    Worth a Thousand Words

    • dNambiar
      5 June 2018 at 6:06 pm
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      Haha! it’s just off 205 on the route to Tracy.
      When you say Mountain House people tend to ask you — did you mean Mountain View? 😀

      I could give you an excuse to visit Mountain House. 😉

  • pushpendra dwivedi
    5 June 2018 at 1:27 pm
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    fantastic awesome post sharing

    • dNambiar
      5 June 2018 at 6:07 pm
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      Thank you, Pushpendra.

  • Anita
    6 June 2018 at 9:21 am
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    Very nice and colourful 🙂

  • JD
    9 June 2018 at 10:01 pm
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    Looks like fun time 🙂

    • dNambiar
      10 June 2018 at 1:07 pm
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      It was fun watching the kites until it got very hot out there. 🙂

  • Eileen Wise
    12 June 2018 at 3:21 am
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    Love the kites and pretty sky. Great captures. The festival looks like fun! Have a happy day and week ahead!

    • dNambiar
      12 June 2018 at 2:05 pm
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      It’s lovely to watch kites (provided it’s not too hot outside. :D)
      You have a happy week, too.

      Thank you for stopping by, Eileen. 🙂

  • Jesh StG
    12 June 2018 at 12:24 pm
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    Can’t remember if I heard of the kite festival – have lived for 30+ years in the Los Angeles basin, and there are aooo many events:) And am not to familiar with the area you’re pointing out, but this one looks like fun! We taught our kids not only to fly a kite, but also how to make one themselves. Thanks for coming to my blog!

    • dNambiar
      12 June 2018 at 2:10 pm
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      This place is an hour’s drive east of SF (that is if the traffic is not too bad. 😀 )
      Oh yeah? That is so cool. I don’t know how to fly a kite. 😐

      That was a beautiful painting that I came across on your blog.
      Thank you for coming this way, Jesh. 🙂

  • NatureFootstep PhotoArt
    13 June 2018 at 2:59 pm
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    that looks like fun to me. And the kites are looking great 🙂

    • dNambiar
      23 June 2018 at 8:06 pm
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      It was fun watching the kites and watching poeple trying to master the art of flying them.
      There were some professional too. 🙂

      Thank you for coming this way, Monica.

  • Deepa Gopal
    23 June 2018 at 9:40 am
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    Beautiful expanse of blue sky and lovely kites! 🙂

    • dNambiar
      23 June 2018 at 8:09 pm
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      I only had my cellphone, so could manage only this many pictures. 🙁
      How have you been, Deepa?

  • magiceye
    26 June 2018 at 5:44 pm
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    Nice vibrant festival. Like our Kite festival in January during Sankranti.

    • dNambiar
      28 June 2018 at 3:12 pm
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      Yeah? There’s a Sankranti-kite festival? In Mumbai?
      Will look out for your posts around then.

      Thank you, Magiceye.

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