My mother, or mum as we called her, named me Honeysuckle because she loved the fragrance of the flowers on that vine. Luckily, everyone has always called me Honey.

My twin sister, Willow, and I own and run the Starlight Inn and Cafe. Over the years, we’ve had many adventures in our Victorian B & B.  The more we learn about the history of our old house, we realize that there has always been a sense of adventure  and mystery about this place we’ve always called our home.

We love our organic garden and serve most of our  fruits and vegetables right in our own Café. We also love fixing up the house and finding antiques for decoration. It is a lot of work keeping up and older Victorian house, serving guests, and maintaining a  large organic garden.

To get  everything done, we have a handyman, a gardener, and a head housekeeper.  When we take our two month vacation in September and October every year, we turn the place over to them. It’s always interesting and occasionally scary to find out what they’ve been up to when we return in November.

My name is Willow, which is short for Pussywillow. Our Mum had a deep love for plants and flowers so she gave her children names like Honeysuckle and Pussywillow. People said the fragrance of the flowers in her garden drew them to our inn. Our garden has always been a gathering place for songbirds and foraging honey bees.

Honey and I are twins. We own the Starlight Inn, a B&B in Santa Barista, California (Latté Capitol of the World). We have six rooms upstairs and several cottages on the property for guests and a café downstairs which serves breakfast and lunch.

The café is open to the community as well as to our guests. Our inn has always been open to the local community. In fact we encourage our neighbors to come sit the garden whenever they feel the need of a little refreshment.

Mum has passed on but her presence is still strongly felt at the inn and in the history of our discrete little town.

Authors Lucy and Nancy have graciously given us this blog to journal about our daily life at The Starlight Inn. Our inn has an interesting history. You can read more about it under the History tab.