Old California..Mission San Miguel
Pulled off the road a bit south of Paso Robles, into the town of San Miguel. Not a prosperous place, dusty streets and a sad downtown,but the mission !
In a Vase on Monday -Experiments
This was my weekend to perform my version of the Chelsea Chop, which in my garden involves cutting back all the spent spring stuff and deadheading the roses. Yard waste toters are full. I cut a lot of odds and ends for this weeks' vase- the Nigella seedheads are plentiful and in the dead middle I stuck a Allium christophii that had an encounter with (I suspect) a racoon, and along with a blob of chicken wire it provides the support for the arrangement I decided to try a few blooms I don't usually cut for vases-it will be interesting to see how they hold up. I'm especially interested to see what happens with the Phlomis -I have allowed that plant to get completely out of control and if the bloomed out flowers perform well they will make a good structural element all summer and into fall. The Phygelius 'Moonraker' is another of which I always have an ample (sometimes too ample) supply. The flowers on the plant don't hold that long, so I picked stems
Having helped a middle-schooler make a replica CA mission out of foam board makes all the features in your photos vividly alive to me. Oh, the miniature bells, the tiny arcaded cloisters! Seriously, what a haunting place!
ReplyDeleteYou have to hand it to those 18th century Spaniards, they knew how to architect achingly beautiful buildings. Beautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteI love road trip posts!
My late uncle Ronald used to provide old railroad bells to Mexican missions. A fond reminder of a special guy. Thanks KS!
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I recently did one on Carmel Mission. It is fun to find someone who likes some of the same things as I do :)
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