Our sweet Stella. Fourteen, blind, and half-deaf, she still loves to swim and can still retrieve. Heart like a lion. #blacklab #rancholazaca

Played tourist todayand stopped at the overlook on the San Marcos Pass and read every single historical marker from Chumash to Californios to flora and fauna. I never knew the botanical name for the cottonwood was after Capt John C Fremont, as were several other native California plant species. He was a #southerner btw from Georgia. #sanmarcospass

Another view of the Santa Barbara Coastal cliffs from the #douglasfamilypreserve in #santabarbara. Oil on canvas, 9×12, by moi. #pleinairpainting #santabarbaracoast

Pretty light on the porch last night. #sundaysupper #afewfriendsfordinner #dahlias #rancholazaca

Is this a beautiful setting for a party or what?! From the storied #santabarbararanch, thankfully spared the worst frim the fire, celebrating a friend’s birthday, and neighbor Jim Messina sits in with the band. Gotta love it here.

Love this shot sent by friends staying at #beecottage this month. A bit of the South of France in #easthampton Thank you fellas! @realestategorman @billzwecker

Back in the studio again and so happy! Here a small oil-on-panel of the stunning Santa Barbara coast, a piece I started earlier in summer in a workshop with @ianrobertsartist and finally got back to. #santabarbara #santabarbaracoast #pleinair

When your priest comes back in after the service to catch the Mariache band’s encore –that’s my kinda church. Thanks to Jim Pugh, the #littlevillagefoundation, and the phenomenal Mariache Mestizo, back home from playing Carnegie Hall earlier this summer! @stmarksinthevalley @mariachemestizo

Dahlias from #farmtotable #heehee. #afewfriendsfordinner at #rancholazaca And some of my favorite plates by #astierdevilatte @astierdevillatte

Bumper crop of my beloved dahlias this summer at #rancholazaca #dahlias #cafeaulait

If these arent two of the cutest cowboys you ever did see… Ain’t their first rodeo, neither. Rode in the Fiesta show yesterday in Santa Barbara. Love me a rodeo. #cowboys @briecromer @w.cromer @patticromer

Home again. Our beloved olive grove at #rancholazaca Thank goidness the fire didnt make it this far. #homesweethome #losolivos #santaynezvalley