Peterson’s Lot
Our hope was to visit Mission Santa Barbara today. It was overcast with high humidity, misting. The mission is another special place to me; I have visited twice before, once many years ago and once just three years. The neatest part to me is the 200 year old horticulture; the size of the cacti is unbelievable. Unfortunately, the drought has decimated a great portion of them. And, the padres were renovating the gardens to change to more drought resistant, less water dependent plants. The gardens were still beautiful and the moist leaves popped in the photos.
We both enjoyed the old architecture, statuary and paintings inside the church. Then there were the “time capsules” where completely furnished rooms were displayed exactly as they were in the early 1800s.
