Santa Fe

Tile Mural, Santa Fe Depot, San Diego, CA. (Tomasito photo)

Gentle Reminder: Santa Fe is more than a railroad--more than the old capital town of New Mexico--it is the Spanish for Holy Faith.

Something to do with faith--not faith of our fathers, nor of our grandfathers--but of people from Spain and Mexico a long, long time ago.

These towns--these railroads--were built and named by people of faith.

Even today--though the Age of Faith is long gone--people of faith still maintain them.

Because deep down, faith goes beyond organized religiosity of all stripes--to the very heart of humanity--that is, of you and me.

Brothers and Sisters, in these dark days: Keep the Faith.

Tomasito

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Urban Garden

City Garden. (Tomasito photo)

We have been in the City of San Diego twice in the last two weeks.

The climate there is so mellow that people love it--millions of people love it--and hundreds more every day--thousands more every year!

Even with this rapid development of the city--the frantic haste of the freeways and the temporary nature of most of the buildings--some lingering thought has been given to the original natural beauty of the place--and unexpected pretty touches like the above tiny fenced area in front of a warehouse become gardens to delight the eye and lift the spirit.

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Wilderness Garden

(Click on the photo for detail.)

Tanya in the Wilderness Garden

About a half-hour drive to the Northeast of Escondido is another good San Diego County Park: Wilderness Garden.

It is close to the two huge casinos on Indian Reservation land but light-years from that kind of Las Vegasy glitter in its essence.

State Highway 76 passes by high above the deep valley which contains the park so the silence of the wilderness is almost unbroken. We could have been walking in the California of the rancho days a hundred years ago.

We visited on a week-day on Tanya's day off from her new job. It is a very good place to relax and feel at peace. There are the usual good county park picnic tables and rest room facilities and since it was a week-day we were almost the only humans there to enjoy it.

Oh yes--if you get a chance to go there be sure to wear long pants! I know to wear them in the desert--I was born in the New Mexico desert after all--but I was careless, wore shorts, and the horseflies made a picnic on my bare legs which are still itchy!

Well, that's nature too.

Tomasito, 2009


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