Category: santa barbara
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Tilted a New Way
Lined upOriginally uploaded by R Stanek It’s been raining here for the past week, so time to dig into the archives again. I love the Santa Barbara Harbor (Marina? Does it have an official name?), and yet for all the happy times I’ve wandered around there with my camera, I’ve only uploaded about half a…
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Wine Tasting with Aunt Amanda!
Eli’s sister Amanda visited for a few days, so what did we do, as we do with all our guests when I’m not pregnant? Wine tasting! It was a gorgeous day on the central coast for some wine tasting. We started at Zaca Mesa, whose viognier we really love. The wines, and my brief comments…
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No news, so here is some bad press!
The Santa Barbara Independent has had excellent coverage of the Gap Fire, but I decided to look for more information elsewhere. A lot of shit went down with the Santa Barbara News-Press before we moved to town, but I thought I should given them one chance. Although the News-Press has an extensive online section for…
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Smoke before fire, but both before information
We were visiting family this weekend, and spent a fair amount of time assuring them that we weren’t affected by any of the California wildfires, as they were hundreds of miles north of us. And then last night, a fire broke out maybe ten miles from where we live. The Santa Barbara Independent — a…