our brief trip to the central coast

We went on a wonderful trip.   Here's Ming at Avila Beach on our way home.

 Here's us at Goleta Beach on Friday.  Picture taken by my best friend E.

In Santa Barbara we went to the courthouse and the mission.  Here are some over the door skulls as seen from the cemetery at the mission.  Oh, I love them.

And here's a succulent and cactus garden in pots on some steps.  We paid $5 each for the mission tour--I forgot that my favorite thing to see, the chapel, is free.

Here's a closeup of the strangest succulent.

And here's the beautiful pink-purple one blooming.

And holy God, there's a wikipedia picture of the chapel.  I knelt to pray and could only think of the Lord's Prayer, which is okay.