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Exceptional landscape features add to the charm of this stylish 3 bedroom plus office, 2.5 bath Skytt Mesa home on .33 acre overlooking pastoral farmland. A rare mature oak in a sunken garden, a waterfall, pergola, and generous patio area with built-in grill amid elegant stonework invite outdoor entertaining. The 3-car garage has gorgeous new […]

The Honorable Old West Lives On

Let’s begin at the beginning. As the name implies, that might be Point Conception, where the roiling winds and cold which drive the morning fog up the Santa Ynez River are born in a maelstrom of froth and foam at the churning Pacific. Or the day when I first rode over San Marcos Pass, and […]

Remembering Benjamin Harry Etling

Benjamin Harry Etling Sr. passed away peacefully Monday, September 28, 2020, at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. Survivors include his sons Benjamin (Dianne),  Robert, William (Debra), and Bert (Laurel) Etling; granddaughters Lisa and Leah (Patrick) Etling McElearney; grandson Will (Abigail) Etling; and great-grandchildren Laurel Etling Socolow and Mercer and Rowan Etling. His beloved wife Marion […]

Woodstock Walk

Woodstock Ranch is home to horses large and small, squads of ground squirrels, and a forest of self-pruning oaks. From the clunky cattle guard to the highest hill, a true treat.

The Farmer Is The Man Who Feeds Us All

Green is gone, the flowers are fried, hay bales fill the fields, time to bring in the sheaves. There’s a tomb raider aspect to entering the vast shadowy spaces of a big barn, mysterious shafts of mote-speckled sunshine lighting warm, smooth wood, dusty antiques forgotten in the spider-webbed recesses. Crop circles aren’t from outer space, […]

“When That April, With Its Showers Soft”

Thank you Geoffrey Chaucer. We’re running ahead of merrie olde England’s flower sched, but looking good nevertheless. My favorite is the Buck Rogers space ship shaped shooting star.

Mendocino

A New England village forgotten by time. 

Yosemite Calling

The Andivan rolled to the Sierras, about five hours away.

Beyond Bacara

I’ve talked about the Bacara Beach walk before here; today we see what lies beyond the pier. It takes a low tide to get there without wet feet. The coast opens out into a snug little bay, with the right slide called Naples breaking temptingly in the distance. 

World’s Best Beachwalk

One of the great benefits of living in the SYV is the nearby seashore, where you can park for free and hike for miles without seeing a soul. When the tide is right, under hot, ice blue skies, amid mussels dripping salt spume and blinking in the sunshine, flanked by an ancient beach – now […]