June Gloom: Early Summer Fog in Santa Barbara
Summer comes to Santa Barbara, not with stifling heat or enervating humidity, but with gentle ocean fogs. Though fog can visit the Santa Barbara co...
Read moreSummer comes to Santa Barbara, not with stifling heat or enervating humidity, but with gentle ocean fogs. Though fog can visit the Santa Barbara co...
Read moreAs the I Madonnari festival nears and the city fills to the brim this Memorial Day weekend, Santa Barbara's glorious jacarandas are bursting into b...
Read moreWhat better way to announce the spring wildflower season than with the golden poppy. They seem to appear everywhere – out of cracks in the pavemen...
Read moreWhat would Santa Barbara be without its protecting rampart of sandstone mountains rising above the city to the north? The rock on our majestic moun...
Read moreHere at The Santa Barbara Company, we have developed a bit of a passion for the pickles from Pacific Pickle Works. We have friends and family stopp...
Read moreIf you've looked up at the mountains from town lately, you may have noticed what looks like a light snowfall. How can that be? Every spring, the ...
Read moreJust when the short, dark days of January begin to drag down your spirits, acacias announce that spring is coming. They burst into bloom, illuminat...
Read moreGlowing red berries ripening around Thanksgiving, bouquets of tiny white flowers loved by the bees in the spring, Toyon grows naturally almost eve...
Read moreFor most Santa Barbarians, the end of the fall heat is welcome, especially because winter is considered by many to be the finest season of all. Wit...
Read moreBougainvillea is not a name you should say softly. Any plant with flowers as garish, brilliant, fluorescent, strident – the adjectives go on and o...
Read moreThe Tuesday market in the 500 and 600 blocks of State Street is one of our favorite markets in the Santa Barbara area. It is quintessential Santa B...
Read moreThe Easton Gallery is housed in Ellen Easton's quiet and incredibly charming Montecito home on an unassuming lane off Hot Springs Road. You enter t...
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