Santa Ysabel Parish Cemetery. (Tomasito photo, 2010)
Grotto at Santa Ysabel.This assistancia to the San Diego Mission is located near Julian, California, which is a pleasant scenic drive from our apartment--about twenty miles of rolling hills oaks and sunburned wild oat grass at this time of year.
The assistancia today is a small but active Catholic church with a museum and a gift shop.
It was the center of a large cattle ranch in the days of Spanish California--now it stands pretty much alone in a wide valley.
Local families keep the assistancia in very good repair and the community cemetery adjacent to the church is very typically "Mexican"--with imaginatively decorated graves and lots of bright colors.
We especially like to visit this quiet place--and there is hot coffee and tasty "Julian Pie" for sale to visitors like us--by the piece or by the whole--at a nearby crossroads bakery and cafe.
The assistancia today is a small but active Catholic church with a museum and a gift shop.
It was the center of a large cattle ranch in the days of Spanish California--now it stands pretty much alone in a wide valley.
Local families keep the assistancia in very good repair and the community cemetery adjacent to the church is very typically "Mexican"--with imaginatively decorated graves and lots of bright colors.
We especially like to visit this quiet place--and there is hot coffee and tasty "Julian Pie" for sale to visitors like us--by the piece or by the whole--at a nearby crossroads bakery and cafe.
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