Corazon Cocina Carpinteria

Sometimes while checking out the newly-opened Linden Square on a delightfully uncrowded Tuesday, you try Corazon Cocina - a local chain offering healthy and creative Mexican fare.

Linden Square

Sometimes you check out the new Linden Square in downtown Carpinteria and you confirm with your own eyes that it's a pleasant, smartly-designed space and a nice addition to the popular beach town.

Wild Flowers of California

Sometimes you go through the botany guides you inherited from your aunt and decide that one may have resale value at a local used bookstore. For fun you post a photo of it on a social media page dedicated to California native plants and hundreds upon hundreds of people gush over it as though it were a rare Gutenberg Bible. You pause, realizing that not only does it have resale value, but maybe you should keep it for a while.

Nerve Net

 

This one never gets old. 1992 was five minutes ago. Benmont Tench plays percussion on track 5 ("My Squelchy Life") and track 8 ("Ali Click") never fails to give me energy. So there you have it.

Catalpa fest 2025

Highly Likely

Our first time at the new Highly Likely in Ojai. Looking the menu it appears that we had the Levantine Sando with their version of a caesar salad (which has humorously large croutons). But then again the crispy halloumi also comes as a side, so maybe we had that. In any case it was good, and afterwards we graduated to having coffees on the patio.

açai bowl

It's hard to argue with the açai bowls at Cajé Coffee.