Notre Dame Pre-K Graduation

Catherine graduated from pre-kindergarten a couple of weeks ago and they had a lovely ceremony at school. The children wore caps and scarves and received "diplomas." When asked what they liked most about pre-k the overwhelmingly popular response was playing outside with their friends on the playground.

The art teacher worked for a month with the children to do a landscape painting on canvas as a gift for the parents

With the wonderful pre-k teacher, Mrs. James

Catherine is very excited to be a kindergartner now and is looking forward to going to Peabody Charter School in the fall. Peabody is just a couple of blocks away so she is already practicing riding her bike to school.

I Madonnari Street Painting Festival

One of the most popular Memorial Day weekend festivities in Santa Barbara is the I Madonnari Festival. It is a street painting festival based on those they have in Italy, so-called because the artists traditionally painted pictures of the Madonna.

The Santa Barbara festival was created over 20 years ago and takes place in front of the beautiful Old Mission. Countless artists work over a 3-day period to create masterpieces out of pastels on the ground in front of the Mission. In addition, there are food booths with traditional fare, including gelato, which you bet we had!

Here are pictures of a few of our favorites:

In progress

This one looks familiar!

The artist at work


Doesn't it look like you could step right into this one?