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A writer friend and I have been gathering quotes about the Ojai Valley. Here's one for this beautiful Sunday morning, from a letter written in 1922 by Nitya (Nityananda), the brother of Jiddu Krishnamurti, to Dr. Annie Besant. Nitya's letter was composed a few weeks after the two brothers first came to Ojai, and began living in the east end, on McAndrew Road.

In a long and narrow valley of apricot orchards and orange groves is
our house, and the hot sun shines down day after day to remind us of
Adyar, but of an evening the cool air comes down from the range of
hills on either side. Far beyond the lower end of the valley runs the
long, perfect road from Seattle in Washington down to San Diego in
Southern California, some two thousand miles, with a ceaseless flow of
turbulent traffic, yet our valley lies happily, unknown and forgotten,
for a road wanders in but knows no way out. The American Indians
called our valley the Ojai or the nest, and for centuries they must
have sought it as a refuge.

Source:
Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening, London: John Murray, 1975, Shambhala reprint edition 1997, by Mary Lutyens