Santa Barbara isn’t the only place where you can enjoy the Beach! Today we headed to the beach, or rather drove, with baby in tow to Santa Claus Lane. I didn’t know he had his own Beach. Accessed by crossing over the railroad tracks, through a few big rocks…and what a view. The castle Home is amazing. I’d like to get more information about it!

So I’ve been wanting to know when the Fiesta Poster Competition was going to be held. About a month ago I called the Fiesta Offices and was told that it was up to the Fiesta President to decide whether or not there would actually be a contest, I and a few other artists were interested in entering a piece for consideration.

So I emailed the fiesta office today as a follow up and the President Anthony Borgatello to find out what’s [...]

So, here’s the days catch of photographs from the iMadonnari festival this Memorial day over at the Santa Barbara Mission. The crowd was plentiful and everyone was abuzz looking and chatting it up. Meanwhile I got some fairly decent snapshots of the Artwork and here they are. Page may take a little while to load as there are over 50 images there.

Summer is almost here, which means ripe time for B-B-Qing. and that means Tri-Tip in Santa Barbara County.

Quoted from Wikipedia.org:
The tri-tip is a cut of beef from the bottom sirloin primal cut. It is a small triangular muscle, usually 1.5 to 2.5 lbs. (675 to 1,150g) per side of beef.

In the United States, this cut was typically used for ground beef or sliced into steaks until the late 1950s, when it became a local specialty in Santa Maria, California, rubbed [...]

There were a lot of News Media around today at the Courthouse to cover the Jesse James Hollywood Trial. QUOTE: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Jesse James Hollywood ordered the murder of a 15-year-old boy after kidnapping him to force the teen’s half-brother to pay a $1,200 drug debt, a prosecutor said Friday during his opening trial statement in the case that was made into the 2007 movie “Alpha Dog.”

So I walked over to the Courthouse to gather up some Daily Photos today and here they are – 29 interesting pictures taken around the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

Random Photos for the Day taken May 11, 2009. The NEW BIG Photo Galleries Section is coming along just fine and progress can be viewed over at SantaBarbaraLocal.com

Random Photos for the Day taken May 10, 2009 at the Santa Barbara Shipyard and Ledbetter Beach.