Tag archives: full moon

Santa Barbara’s State Park, Located Downtown
By Lynda Millner   |   September 24, 2020

When I think of a state park I think of mountains and trees, not downtown Santa Barbara. Wrong! We have one in the middle of town. El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park sits between Anacapa and Garden streets on East Canon Perdido Street. The main part of the site is across the street […]

One Month, Two Full Moons
By Lynda Millner   |   September 24, 2020

Across from the Bird Refuge (30 Los Patos Way), we have a pop up during October just in time for Halloween. Did you know there will be two full moons that month? Arlene and Milt Larsen from the Magic Castle Cabaret will be having a Halloween gift shop for the month of October, open Tuesday […]

Bountiful Harvest
By Gabe Saglie   |   October 4, 2018

The lunar-tics were out in force when society doyenne Beverley Jackson hosted a delightful dinner for more than 40 guests at the China Palace on Coast Village Road to mark the Harvest Moon, China’s second biggest celebration after New Year. “The custom is traced back to the Zhou dynasty in 256 BC,” Beverley, former society […]

Full Moon Fever
By Chuck Graham   |   March 22, 2018

I think I was suffering from anxiety. Wracking my brain trying to figure out where to position myself for that rare event of a super moon, blue/blood moon and lunar eclipse, a simultaneous solar systematical natural wonder that hadn’t occurred since 1866, I had to force myself to choose. I finally settled on the Carrizo […]