Santa Barbara Day Trip - Part I

My mom recently came for a visit and she and Alex and I drove up the coast to Santa Barbara for the day, one of our favorite places to go for shopping, sightseeing and just a change of pace.  

On a sunny day, it's a beautiful drive along the ocean and since it's on our way, we stopped in Malibu at John's Garden for our traditional to-go treat:  a deliciously decadent date shake.  (See end of post for location.)

Just prior to reaching Santa Barbara, you will see the signs for Santa Claus Lane.  I recalled an antique store located there so, on a whim, I exited to check out their latest inventory.  Unfortunately, it was no longer in business, but we were happy to discover a charming boutique called "Hummingbird."

Mona Satchel in Herringbone by Hemptress

Hummingbird carries a beautiful selection of handbags and jewelry.

A sampling of the Love Heals Jewelry Collection

Handbags from Hammett, 49 square miles, David Galan and Hemptress.

More pieces by Love Heals Jewelry

(The company plants 10 trees for each piece sold.

Over 700,000 trees to-date.)

Hummingbird

jewelry, gifts, accessories

3823 Santa Claus Lane

Carpinteria, California

(South of Santa Barbara)

  

John's Garden, Malibu      Great casual place for sandwiches, salads, smoothies and my favorite treat: the date shake.  A good place to get picnic provisions for a day at the beach or hiking in the canyon.  It's also a fun place to spend an afternoon.  You can eat at the picnic tables or on the lawn in the charming outdoor area and then shop at the surrounding clothing and home boutiques.
(child friendly, dog friendly)
3835 Cross Creek Road #1, Malibu, California 90265

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Our route:

A - Santa Monica

B - John's Garden, Malibu

C - Hummingbird Boutique, Carpinteria

D - Santa Barbara

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images via:   lb - 2 &3;  Hummingbird - 4,9,10;  Love Heals Jewelry - 8;  SB Digs -  (1,5,6,7) John's Garden - 11,12; Google Maps: 13

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Design Daily - Nature's Art

Photograph by LeAnn for l&l, Palos Verdes, CA September 2009

Trees glorious trees!  

Meetings with Remarkable Trees

The Meaning of Trees

The Wisdom of Trees

Speak for the Trees

About the Book

The artists in this powerful new book, Speak For The Trees, include both young and emerging artists, and such world-renowned figures as David Hockney, conceptual artist Yoko Ono, pop-surrealist Mark Ryden, international-environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude and the beyond categorization Starn Brothers. 
Each artist contributed artwork, which has been showcased on a two-page spread together with the artist’s thinking on his or her work in relationship to trees, and with a quotation each selected from writers as diverse as Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, Abraham Lincoln and Henry David Thoreau, William Shakespeare and Ogden Nash.

Speak For The Trees explores the profound relationship humanity has with trees, moving and inspiring all who experience it. This is a reflection, Friesen writes, of something we have “known” for more than five thousand years: “We are connected…gratitude and respect for nature are paramount. If we tuned in and returned to that deeper understanding and sense of unity, how could the world not be a better place?”

The project received a remarkable response from all participants: Few of the artists had heard of Friesen or of her gallery, but all agreed to participate based on the title of the book alone; the artists’ visual and written offerings were donated, and no royalties were paid for any copyrighted text.

One hundred percent of the proceeds of this first edition (outside of printing costs) will directly and equally benefit the Esalen Institute in California and the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland.

-all information and excerpts from the Speak for the Trees Book website. 

For further details, including the extensive list of artists and authors involved, go to:
About the Book
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The story behind Speak for the Trees 

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Design Daily - romance by the sea

Maisons Côté  Ouest Dec 2000-Jan 2001

Doesn't this look like a setting right out of a romance novel? 
Intriguing.  I wonder what stories those old stone walls could tell?

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