What a day! What looked on the map like a drive that would take less than three hours turned into a daylong odyssey. In the best possible way! My sweet husband is supporting my desire to visit several of the California Missions. Today we visited three of them before arriving in Santa Barbara. And we …
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Santa Barbara, CA – Day 2
“Of all God’s gifts to the sighted man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.” —John Ruski Today I’ve been thinking a good bit about color. Everything here in Santa Barbara seems so intense. Even the muted shades. Even the colors that are cast in shadow. There must be something about the …
Santa Barbara, CA – Day 3
This morning we had the privilege of attending Mass at Mission Santa Barbara in the Serra Chapel which is normally closed to visitors. Apparently there is some controversy in this area about the entire Spanish mission project and the impact it had on the native Chumash culture. Some time back the mission was severely vandalized. …