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On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!
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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
In my continuing(as I make my way to them) series of the Spanish California Missions, I visited Mission San Luis Rey prior to visiting The Bloom. I’d noticed the sign along side the road on my trip to San Diego(where I visited the mission there). Mission San Luis Rey was the 18th of the 12 missions founded in 1798. This is one of the first missions that I’ve visited that has a dome(the Great Stone Church at San Juan Capistrano did, but it fell victim to the 1812 earthquake). The Mission is well preserved and the grounds are pretty large, though much smaller than they were during the mission period.
Taken on 2019-03-18 00:00:00
Oceanside, CA
This is the Mission Chapel built in 1815. To the right is the mission cemetery and to the left is part of the front of the courtyard. This mission also has a small second courtyard to the right and behind the chapel. If you look closely you can see a small sign in front of the door of the chapel, there was a service in progress at the time.
Taken on 2019-03-18 00:00:00
Oceanside, CA
This is a view of the front of the mission. You can see to the far left the opening into the main courtyard and the building to the left side of the courtyard. They don’t have a parking lot in the courtyard as they do in San Diego.
Taken on 2019-03-18 00:00:00
Oceanside, CA
This is the front portion of the chapel with the alter and the dome. The alter is much more simple than some of the other missions(particularly San Juan Capistrano). After touring the mission museum, the services had completed so I was able to go in and take two photos with my fisheye lens to get the panorama.
Taken on 2019-03-18 00:00:00
Oceanside, CA
One portion of the courtyard has not been restored and here is one of the original arches. At the end of the path is what looks to be a water tank or a well. To it’s right is a Peruvian Pepper Tree that was the first in California, planted in 1830. This portion of the mission is used as a retreat and is not open to the public.
Taken on 2019-03-18 00:00:00
Oceanside, CA
This is an IR photo of the Chapel on the right with a fountain. On the left is the mission museum and gift shop.
Thank you so much ?BillinGlendaleCA, do send us more when you can.
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Mary G
Cool.
JPL
And now we find out more about the arch. At first I thought it was the same post as yesterday. Thanks Bill
marv
Enjoyed seeing these beautiful photos. Reminded me of Vertigo. The 18th of 12 missions? Sounds like a miracle.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: And not to far from your abode.
@JPL: You’re welcome, Adam gutted this post for yesterday’s doggie pics but the title pics remained.
@marv: Either a miracle or a typo(it should be 21); but remember, the founder of the missions is a saint. Glad you liked em.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: Actually, looking at the picture of the arch…I uploaded the wrong photo, that was a photo used to produce the IR photo(I de-saturate the greens before I do the Photoshop magic), here’s the photo with the correct color.
StringOnAStick
I spent part of my early childhood in the Central Valley, and I remember doing a summer library project about learning the history of all the CA missions. I also remember a family friend who had an enormous pepper tree in their backyard, the corns were pink and the leaves long and thin. Is that a Peruvian pepper tree? As an adult I’ve wondered if was “really” a pepper tree but as a kid I didn’t doubt it.
Cool photos, Bill.