50 years of love!

To our dear friends
Joye and Roger

celebrating 50 years of marriage!

we wish you another 25 years of love together  

in good health and good fortune

sending flowers from our garden and our love to you both!

we are blessed to have you in our lives!



Santa Barbara Hangliding

Santa Barbara is Recreational Heaven!

The greater Santa Barbara area is a haven for recreational activities of all kinds...

Top of Ehlings Park is a favorite spot for
 Hangliding!

Free access is off Cliff Drive at Las Positas

entry is best with 4 weel drive, but accessible on rough road by regular cars.

It's fun to watch and observe the pros and the newsbies taking lessons...

overlooking Hendry's Beach (aka Arroyo Burro Beach)

A perfect day to learn the sport or just observe

Lessons available

Unique Santa Barbara Area Weekly Walking Tours

Tour Unique Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, Montecito, Cachuma and Coastal Areas

Saturday and Sundays 2-4 pm

Goleta

Rancho La Patera and Historic Stow House Tours
(photo from stowhouse website)

304 North Los Carneros Road, Goleta

$5/adults; free children 12 and younger

964-4407; http://www.stowhouse.com/

Sundays 10-noon

on the coast north of Goleta
Arroyo Hondo Preserve Docent Tours

Between Refugio State Beach and Gaviota State Park

(photo by Randy Leffingwell from Landtrust website)

Join docents on hike along creek and to lookout point with ocean and canyon views.
The 782-acre Arroyo Hondo Preserve is called the "Jewel of the Gaviota Coast.". 

Reservations required 567-1115; arroyohondo@sblandtrust.org  Free

Daily 9am -5 pm

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara
(photo of painting by B.J. Stapen; http://www.bjstapen.com/ )
Admission:  $8/adults - $6/seniors, children13-17,

active military with ID,

$4 children 2-12, under 2 free

682-4726; http://www.sbbg.org/

Daily 2pm; 10:30 am Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays

Santa Barbara County Courthouse Tours

 

1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara

begin in the Mural Room on second floor

Courthouse Garden Tours

10:30 am first & third Saturday of month

Meet under large Courthouse Arch on Anacapa Street

Free

Saturday (Sabado) Tour  10-noon
Historic Downtown Santa Barbara Art and Architecture Walking Tours
See the historic de la Guerra Adobe, El Paseo, The Hill-Carrillo Adobe
the Meridian Studios, Lobero Theatre and much much more.
Learn what created the stunning transformation and forever changed
Santa Barbara from ordinary to extraordinary.
Leaves from the centrally located de la Guerra Plaza

Sundays (Domingo) 10-noon

Central Library 40 E. Anapamu Street

Post 1925 Earthquake Architecture, Landscape Design and History of Santa Barbara

Both Tours Presented by the
Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara

no baby strollers or dogs; rain cancels.

$10 general, free to children age 3-12 (must be accompanied by adult)

965-6307 or http://www.afsb.org/

Wednesdays-Saturdays through April 23rd

10 am - 1:30 pm

Madame Ganna Waleska's Lotusland

Montecito

Art Exhibit and Tour

"Gone," 25 paintings of extinct plants, recreated from historical descriptions by botanists.

Docent-guided tour.

$35 adults 19 +, $10 youth, $10 5-18, free children 4 and younger

reservations must 969-9990; reservation@lotusland.org

Saturday 10 am

Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park Docent Tour

Park entrance across from Sandyland and Ash avenues in Carpinteria

Docent-led tour provides history of the landmark's rescue and geology, flora and fauna

free 684-4060

Saturdays 10 am - noon

Cachuma Nature Walk

Meet at Cachuma Lake Nature Center

2265 Highway 154

Lake Cachuma naturalists and volunteers lead one-mile walk on Oak Canyon Trail

Free with $8 park admission/per vehicle
Also available are 2 hour Nature Lake Cruises approapriate for all ages including handicapped.

688-4515 or www.cachuma.com
Watch for the April 16th Annual Trout Derby April 9 & 11th

Celebrity Authors' Luncheon

25th Annual CALM

Celebrity Authors' Luncheon

Saturday, March 19th

2011 Fess Parker's Double Tree Resort

633 East Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Join CALM and celebrate 25 years of world famous authors & unforgettable stories.

Jack Canfield is the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He shares his insights in his book The Success Principle:  How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Mr. Canfield is a Harvard graduate with a Master's Degree in phychological education.

Jean-Michel Cousteau, is an explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer, and author.  Mr. Cousteau has spent most of life nurturing the work of his famous father and now in his newest book, My Father, the Captain, he gives us an intensely personal look into the lives of the Cousteau family.

Sue Grafton, New York Times bestselling author, is published in twenty-eight countries and twenty-six languages.  Her alphabetical series, began in 1982.  She has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.  Ms. Grafton is currently working on "V" having completed U is for Undertow.

Jane Hamilton, lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin.  Her short stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine.  Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Her second novel, A Map of the World, was an international bestseller.  Her newest book, Laura Rider's Masterpiece, is not only funny but sexy and provocative as well!

Susan Straight's newest novel, Take One Candle Light a Room, portrays the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together.  Ms. Straight has written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and Harper's Magazine.  She has won an Edgar Award, a O.Henry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

These five authors will be Interviewed by Debby Davidson and Williamn Hermann

10 am - Meet the Authors

Books available for purchase and signing

11:45 am - Lunch is served

12:45 pm Author's Interview Program

2 pm Additional Book Purchasing and Signing

Tickets $125 each

Reservations 682-3925

all monies from this event remain in Santa Barbara

to support CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation)

http://www.calm4kids.org/

Santa Barbara International Orchid Show

66th Annual

Santa Barbara International Orchid Show

March 11, 12, 13; 9 am - 5 pm

General admission $12

Senior (65+), students with ID $10

Children under 12 with adults FREE

tickets at the door or Ticketmaster

Earl Warren Show Grounds
 Highway 101 and Las Positas Rd, Santa Barbara  93105

Earl Warren Showgrounds becomes a magical Paradise of Orchids and Exotic Plants by exhibitors from North & South America, the South Pacific, Australia and Asia.


~Vast selection of bloming orchid plants, corsages, art works and orchid supplies for sale
~Free workshops on orchid care led by experts
~Santa Barbara area orchid nursery growers' open houses

http://www.sborchidshow.org/

Huell Houser's Road Trip

Take an excursion back to the 2010 Santa Barbara International Orchid Show on a special episode of Road Trip with Huell Howser! The Show is proud to be featured as part of an exciting program about "The Orchid Trail" that aired on television stations in California in the Fall of 2010. If you missed the program, you have another opportunity to see it this month. Then take your own road trip to see the Show in person! The 66th Santa Barbara International Orchid Show promises to be a spectacular journey into the beautiful world of orchids!


The Spring programming schedule for the "The Orchid Trail" episode of Road Trip with Huell Howser is as follows:
PBS SOCAL (formerly KOCE), serving all of Southern California
Sunday, February 13 at 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 24 at 8:00 p.m.

Win a Santa Barbara Home!

Village Properties Realtors'

Teacher's Fund

Village Properties has established the "Teacher's Fund" to help local public andprivate k-12 school teachers buy the supplies and books they so desperately need.

learn more at:  http://www.teachersfund.org/

Santa Barbara 7th Annual Million Dollar Home Raffle

benefits the Contemporary Arts Forum

and the Village Properties Teacher's Fund

Win $1,000,000 or a Santa Barbara Home

http://www.villagesite.com/

enter by Wednesday, March 9, 2011
to qualify for Extra Bonus Prizes & Cash