Santa Barbara Cemetery - January 10, 2008This is a very peaceful meditative cemetery garden, even though I find it a bit unsettling seeing palm trees, oaks and cyprus together. But that's Santa Barbara for you. There are special views of the ocean and the mountains from this place. Memorial art with the stone crosses, mausoleums and other markers as well as the flat headstones was a new art form for me to discover. They are putting photo images on stones now, but I worry about how long the ink will hold under the sun and rain. The gentle respect for loved ones and a peoples heart felt gestures to ones no longer here is a sentimental and soothing thing to contemplate while walking around. The Santa Barbara Cemetery interment dates start at 1860. There are over 46,000 individuals listed for this cemetery. Interests of Callie | Birds | Surfing | Santa Barbara Farmers' Market, Gardening and Farming | Snowy Plovers | Trips and Places Callie's e-mail: [email protected] |