This gallery is a sampling of some of the photos I've taken over the last 3 months. It's a thankyou for all the love and support I get from so many wonderful people here and around the world.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM FALL 2011:_First up something from the summer: the classic Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movie "Swing Time" shown outdoors at the County Courthouse. It didn't make in the last update and there are only 6 months to go until July is here again. THEATER – Ensemble Theatre Co.'s season opener Underneath the Lintel, with noted actor Tim Bagley, star of "Monk" and "Will & Grace," about a world-circling search for why a library book was returned 113 years overdue. __A double whammy of Caryl Churchill – the mind-bending A Number, and the gender-bending Cloud Nine.. __John Blondell and Lit Moon Theater Company putting on their inimitable brand of magic realism, this time for Peer Gynt, with 3 actors protraying Peer as he ages. __The Lion in Winter, featuring Eric Pierpont and Stephanie Zimbalist – a pitch-perfect and delightful way for Ensemble to finish 2011. __This year's Santa Barbara Revels beer-hall and tannenbaum-filled Bavarian holiday season celebration – wunderbar! ____ DANCE – The quarter began with a mysterious piece of theater/dance, Yes is a Long Tme, about a family dealing with a comet hitting their house, and some much larger cosmic implications... _+Bill Soleau's Starry Night is also a dance/theater hybrid, based on letters from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo. _+NY City Ballet and Hubbard Street Chicago dropped by the Granada for some just (not so) plain dancing. __UCSB Dance's fall offering was Almost, Honest – chock full of imaginative choreography and youthful bravado! ___The season wouldn't be complete without a Nutcracker... or three!+_MUSIC – How about a music/theater hybrid? John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy as Jack Unerweger – a little bit of chamber music & opera with a creepy/charming serial killer hawking his posthumous best-sellling book. Now that's mixing it up. ___Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave. and "A Night In Treme" set Campbell Hall to dancin' & shakin' with a N'orlins backbeat and some mighty fine musical carryin' on. ___The New Gary Burton Quartet featuring fretboard wiz Julian Lage – superb!___ Keb Mo's "Christmas" show was a lot more than some chestnuts, tho everything did get roasted very nicely indeed. ___Everyone there got their bootys shook by Area 51 at the annual "Winter White" Ball. ___Sings Like Hell kept on puttin' on with Dave Alvin & the Guilty Persons, Carolyn Mark, Ryan Bingham, Teddy Thompson and a surprise appearane by Carlene Carter for a few duets during rising star Elizabeth Cook's delightful set.___ODDS & ENDS: The Lobero Theatre's "Mangia del'Arte" fundraiser – an evening of comedy, song, acrobatics, and most importantly, food, food, food, prepared by the best chefs in Santa B.___ Camerata Pacifica's performance at Ganna Walska's "Lotusland" – a perfect melding aural and horticultural delights.___ Tierney Sutton and team leading an improvisational Circlesing onstage @ the Lobero with SB area teens, part of the AHA! program.

Photos are arranged chronologically. Check back again for the newest photos and videos in April, July, October and next January. Hope you enjoy it!