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| Wild Thing! Downtown Santa Barbara |
A very warm week in Santa Barbara. So, we headed for the beach. You can bicycle to the beach here, but we chose to hit the road, driving an hour north to
Jalama Beach. The old saying that "getting there is half the fun" was true on this day. The last fourteen miles on Jalama Road was a twisting and turning, rising and falling journey through lovely, virtually uninhabited hill country. Strolling for miles along the beach provided the other half of a good day. Rowdie was in dog heaven, prancing in the surf and greeting sea birds with enthusiasm. At the end of our wandering, we had a delicious Jalama Burger and a couple of cold ones at the Jalama Beach Campground.
(Reminder - a click on any photo enlarges it to screen size.)
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| Jalama Beach |
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| Better than a good day at the office! |
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| Hanging out at Jalama Beach |
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| Flotsam, Jalama Beach |
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| Art of the Sea |
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| Art of the Sea |
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| Art of the Sea |
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| Art of the Sea |
The rest of the week we just hung out - a tour of the Botanical Gardens, happy hour on a deck overlooking the marina, and... I don't know; we must have done something.
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| Botanical Gardens and La Cumbre Peak |
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| I love! this sign |
Of course, we are always walking the dog. There's lots to see.
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| Working Boats |
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| Got Rowdie's Attention! |
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| Incoming! Pelicans! Got our attention! |
The Tuesday Farmers' Market is always worth a visit.
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| Red is beautiful. |
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| Street Musician, Farmers' Market |
A highlight of this week came this afternoon, just hours before this edition of Travel Journals went to the presses. Exactly one week after we listened to blues at a funky bar in the wilds of the Santa Ynez Mountains, we found ourselves in the solemn quiet of
Trinity Episcopal Church on State Street, a ten-minute walk from our house. There we heard a beautiful concert, Duos for Violin, Clarinet and Piano. We listened to music of Beethoven, Rossini and Kreisler (a new one for me). Not quite as rockin' as last Sunday, but every bit as worthwhile. The link above is to a local newspaper article on history of the church. It's pretty interesting; take a minute to check it out.
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| Beautiful music filled Trinity Episcopal on Sunday afternoon. |
Next week, guests arrive.
1 comment:
So what did Rowdie think of the seal?
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