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Santa Barbara Seasons Editor’s Letter Fall 2010. Photo by Tracy Smith Reed.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Winter is an etching,\u00a0Spring is a watercolor,\u00a0Summer an oil painting\u00a0and Autumn a mosaic of them all.\u00a0\u2013Stanley Horowitz<\/a><\/p>\n

FORGET JANUARY 1.\u00a0As any parent\u00a0will tell you, fall is when the New Year\u00a0really begins. The kids go back to school\u00a0and their structured autumn schedules,\u00a0while mom and dad toast their newfound\u00a0freedom with at least as much as gusto as\u00a0the days of Auld Lang Syne.<\/p>\n

Fall is also a great time for celebrating the beauty of\u00a0seasonal changes. Our (slightly) cooler weather offers a\u00a0perfect opportunity for taking long walks and appreciating\u00a0the remarkable bounty of art and architecture available\u00a0just about everywhere you look in Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

Even though I\u2019m lucky enough to have been a resident\u00a0for most of my life, while working on this issue, I was\u00a0pleased to discover new and interesting details about our\u00a0town while taking both the Architectural Foundation of\u00a0Santa Barbara<\/a> walking tours through the traditional\u00a0local landmarks and a Walking Wednesdays with Santa\u00a0Barbara Walks trek through the impressive variety of\u00a0architectural styles, not to mention landscaping\u00a0inspiration, found on the upper eastside (\u201cGet Up\u00a0Close and Personal with Architecture,\u201d pg. 24).<\/p>\n

I also had the pleasure of spending some time in the\u00a0whimsical world of Ablitt House<\/a>, and I can\u2019t imagine a\u00a0better cover subject for our seventh annual art and\u00a0architecture issue. We provide an intimate peek into this\u00a0bright symphony of colors, tiles, curves and angles\u00a0conducted by homegrown architect Jeff Shelton<\/a>, a true\u00a0visionary who has refreshed and reinvented the look\u00a0and feel of Santa Barbara\u2019s architecture while continuing\u00a0to pay homage to our Mediterranean roots (\u201cArt +\u00a0Architecture + Ablitt,\u201d pg. 60).<\/p>\n

Yet another fascinating and fanciful brick in the\u00a0architecture of our city can be found in the exuberant\u00a0mosaic bursts of colors in Dan\u00a0Chyrnko\u2019s creative art installations.\u00a0I had the dual pleasure of joining\u00a0Dan at his creekside studio, where\u00a0he shared some of the inspirations\u00a0and stories behind his mosaics,\u00a0and then sharing some of our\u00a0conversation with you (\u201cMosaic\u00a0Master,\u201d pg. 104).<\/p>\n

We also take you inside the homes\u00a0of contemporary art collectors\u00a0Jacquelyn Klein-Brown, Geoffrey\u00a0and Laura Wyatt, and Tim Walsh\u00a0and Mike Healy to share some of the fascinating artistic\u00a0treasures\u2014and their hunters and gathers\u2014hiding\u00a0behind closed doors in the 805 area code\u00a0(\u201cContemporary Art Lives Here,\u201d pg. 50). We were\u00a0impressed and inspired by their collections, and we\u00a0think you will be too.<\/p>\n

Our cultural journey then meanders in a completely\u00a0different\u2014but still quintessentially local\u2014direction to\u00a0the historic backcountry\u2019s iconic Cold Spring Tavern<\/a>,\u00a0where the acoustic pairing of Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan<\/a>\u00a0under the oak trees is a favorite part of the weekend ritual\u00a0for foodies, bikers and, most of all, local music aficionados\u00a0(\u201cRoadhouse Blues,\u201d pg. 56).<\/p>\n

All of us at Santa Barbara Seasons<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>get a huge kick out\u00a0of capturing and sharing the unique, quirky, fun, classic\u00a0and otherwise notable aspects of Santa Barbara life for\u00a0your enjoyment, and it has a been particular delight for\u00a0me to fill in as editor for this issue while editor\u00a0Rebekah Altman has been extremely busy with an\u00a0amazing production of her own\u2014a precious baby girl.\u00a0My advice to her (and to all of us, really) is to savor every\u00a0moment of this season, because in what feels like the\u00a0blink of an eye, she\u2019ll be right there with the rest of us,\u00a0toasting fall\u2019s return back to school.<\/p>\n

Cheers to a wonderful autumn!<\/p>\n

Leslie Dinaberg<\/a><\/p>\n

EDITOR PRO TEMPORE<\/p>\n

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Cover photo by Jim Bartsch.<\/p><\/div>\n

Originally published in Santa Barbara Seasons Magazine, Fall 2010. Cover photo by Jim Bartsch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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