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Blue & Green 2012

Check out our annual ode to the great outdoors, with stories on hiking, beaching, animal tracking, and more.

Naomi Schwartz: 1934-2012

There is some truth in the adage that political life attracts some of the best and some of the worst people. Naomi Schwartz was one of the very, very best.

Chris Potter

Three years ago, Santa Barbara native Chris Potter — a deep descendant of the old Potter Hotel family — quit his job to paint full-time and now is a fixture on the streets and hillsides of Santa Barbara, where he crafts plein air landscapes and urban scenes every day of the week, including the image featured on this week’s cover, called “Old San Marcos Greens.”

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