Mission Trees (2)

I absolutely loved this view when I was in the Mission San Juan Bautista, and instantly knew I had to take a Skywatch Friday shot!

San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District (1)

Next to the mission I showed you in the last couple of posts is the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District. It's a state park consisting of several well-preserved and restored old buildings. Here's an old stagecoach - imagine riding in this for hours in the Old West!

One of the buildings is an elegant, large old house.

It's fascinating to see how people lived back then and well worth the small admission fee.

They lived in such a beautiful place.

And of course every community had to be self-sufficient!

Our World Tuesday

Merced National Wildlife Refuge

While in California last year we drove by the Merced National Wildlife Refuge, a 10,262 acre refuge. While the birds weren't in the area, I thought the wide-open expanses would be worth a couple of photos for the blog.

I captured this for Floral Friday.

Mission Trees

For Skywatch Friday, here are a couple of trees from the Mission San Juan Bautista in central California.

Mission San Juan Bautista Gardens

Today's Our World Tuesday post will show you a few shots from the gardens of the Mission San Juan Bautista (you saw inside a couple of days ago).

As expected, everything's very well kept.

And I've saved a couple more shots for other memes!

Mission San Juan Bautista

Last time we were in California I visited a couple of the old missions. This post is about Mission San Juan Bautista, northeast of Monterey.

Founded in 1797, the mission is very well-kept. I used a fisheye lens to capture the next shot.

Here's another photo of the inside of the church.

Today's last photo is of the cemetery, but I've got more to come from this beautiful area.

Inspired Sunday

Boston!

We were visiting family in Boston over the holidays; here's a photo of the city for Skywatch Friday.