Santa Ysabel Asistencia (Tomasito photo)
We visited the Santa Ysabel Asistencia near Julian in north San Diego county a few days ago after a heavy rain.
This small church was founded in the time of the early missions of California--and, of course, the buildings have been rebuilt since the original adobe melted back into the earth long ago.
The church is in a beautiful country location--no town, no freeway, no tee-shirt shops--just a few cows, the small, intimate sanctuary and one or two other service buildings.
The cemetery is especially lovely to me--austere, but with the usual gay plastic flowers of a Mexican Catholic tierra santa--and, especially after the rain-- was a memento of eternity.
Tomasito, 2009
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