4th Annual Julian Film Festival, Friday, August 21st & Saturday, August 22nd The 2015 Julian Film Festival, benefitting and sponsored by the Volcan Mountain Foundation will be held on Friday evening, August 21st, and all day Saturday, August 22nd. The nature-focused, environmental

Thirty years ago, James Hubbell and a team of talented builders gave the world a gift called The Sea Ranch Chapel. Listen to the story of how this magnificent structure came into being. http://www.tsra.org/news.php?viewStory=2215.    Thanks to Ginny Rubin, Marcia Nybakken, and Dick Fa

  It’s hard to come up with the words to thank those talented and hardy souls (building in the winter in Santa Ysabel) for their dedication and skill in construction the new Ilan-Lael Center.  In sun and snow, wind and rain, and feast and famine (with regards to the buildin

Visit a San Diego treasure! Once again we invite you to visit the hand-built home, studios and gardens of James and Anne Hubbell. The property has returned to all its glory over the past decade since the great fire, and more new construction is underway on a courtyard building to hous

I visited Ilan-Lael on New Year’s Day.  No small feat getting there as about 100,000 of my fellow San Diegans also flocked to the mountains to take in a glorious sunny and snow-filled day.  Fortunately, I lost most of them at the turn for Orchard Lane and made my way through min