Time to Say Goodbye to SB

Graveyard at the Mission.

It has been a great break from winter, even if our winter has not been very bad. Today I spent the morning drinking coffee on the deck and then packed a lunch and spent the afternoon on the beach. Even though the temp only got to 14 here today, it still felt warm down by the water.

Yesterday I went to the Mission. This is the 3rd building, after awhile the first one was too small and a larger one was built, then the 2nd one was destroyed by an earthquake. The last one was also partially destroyed by an earthquake in 1927 (I think) but it was restored. It is still active as a catholic parish. The graveyard at the Mission has over 4000 indians buried there, but there are no headstones or crosses, for them, I am not sure if there were at one time and they just disintegrated but there only a few mausoleums and headstones left.. The last burial was in 1952.