Tag: architecture
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La Cuesta Less Encantada
San Simeon is an oddity of a beach town along the Central Coast. While houses in neighboring towns jostle against one another and crowd the shoreline like penguins on ice floes, the only readily visible residences in San Simeon are a handful of tile-roofed Spanish style villas on manicured lots near the shore and, of…
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In the City
When Waze blandly informed us that it was twenty-five minutes to our hotel four miles away, I knew that we’d arrived. My husband and I had been talking about taking a trip to San Francisco for years – both when we lived across the bay in Marin and when we moved back southward – but…
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El Andaluz
Because I didn’t want to spoil the magic or be ejected from the premises, I didn’t ask why a man to whom my husband and I were complete strangers let us into the locked courtyard of El Andaluz. We had visited Santa Barbara before, even with cameras, but never with an eye to urban street shooting.…
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