One of my favorite places to visit in summer is Pismo Beach. It is a little less glamorous than its popular northern neighbor Carmel By The Sea, and a little less crowded. Though it seems the crowded part is changing….
I’m standing in a Wells Fargo Bank waiting to speak with a teller when I notice a mural on the wall. It has the iconic Wells Fargo stage coach on it and a picture of one of the California Spanish…
This statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha is located behind Mission Buenaventura in front of the parish school. “I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love.” ~ St. Kateri Tekakwitha
Always forward, never back. ~ Bl. Junipero Serra’s motto. LINK to all my postings on his missions in California.
The last of California’s Spanish Plazas is surrounded by the largest of the Spanish Missions, Mission San Juan Batista, the last unpaved portion of California’s historic El Camino Real, an old adobe convent that was once part of the mission…
Mission San Miguel: A Photo Essay