May 18
By John Dicus
Montecito, a REALLY nice place
Yep, Montecito is a really nice place. I drive along through there on occasion. Actually, it’s odd, but you go past hedgerow after hedgerow, and never see into the grande estates within the greenery which is designed to keep the world out. Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah and lots of other folks that make some ‘real’ money have homes there. It truly is a special place, and there’s a few places I see in this posting of Montecito Real Estate I’d like to buy.
Now, if only Oprah would have me on her show telling folks about how great cactus is to eat, I bet in no time I could pay the eleven million for the place in this photo, and I’d be neighbors with Oprah! Heck, I’d even put in a nice little cactus garden for her, and plant a great vegetable garden that would be hard to beat! (hint-hint).
This home is just what I’d build if I could build anything I wanted. Adobe, nice and cool in the summer, warm in the winter, cactus all over (got that already, but not in Montecito), and up on a hillside overlooking the ocean, with the beautiful tranquil (usually) Pacific Ocean below… yeah, it’d be pretty cool.
Montecito means ‘Little Mountain’. The hills behind Santa Barbara/Montecito area are really nice, and I’ve done a fair amount of hiking in them-thar hills ‘back in the day’. And to this day, whenever I drive through Montecito, I smile, because I know even though I’m just driving through (I have a business contact I see on occasion in Montecito), I know that I am truly in a special place. It isn’t ‘just’ the multi-million dollar homes and real-estate, there is a feeling in the air, such as you get in a few other places in the world; Sedona, Taos, Barcelona, and our canyon all have this positive energy… you know that things are going to be OK when you ‘center’ yourself into these places…. yeah, that’s all kinda meta-physical and ’spooky-talk’, I know, but I’ve been in California now since 1967, and I’m turning ‘native’. Forgive me my indulgences! 