Mission Accomplished

After having breakfast tacos at Habanera’s, I posed the question, “Road Trip?”

Ted: “Road trip!  Enchanted Rock?”

Me: “San Antonio Missions?”

Ted nods: “Cameras”

Me: “yes”

Ted: “I need to shower”

Me: “Noon”

Ted: “My house”

That’s just how it works with Ted and I.   It was a really good time too.  We got there around 1pm, and started of at the Mission Concepcion, the first of at least 3 missions we wanted to check out on this “mission mission”. 

 

Concepcion had some construction going on, preventing us from access to the main church.  Still plenty of things to shoot, and the challenge of it was the fact that it was Saturday with lots of people on site.

 San Jose was next, and is the largest of the Missions as far as grounds in tact, living quarters in tact, and size of main structure.  This is my favorite site.  The arches and curves on the structure are truly amazing.  Luckily the clouds that hung over the area in the morning had almost burned up by noon, so there was some good wispy whites going on in my back grounds.

San Juan is the 3^rd on the tour.  This structure is in crisis.   Both of the long walls were buckling with visible erosion cracks inside and out.  Ted commented that this is what happens in a drought around here.  There were a couple shots at this site I wanted to re-shoot from a visit 8 or 9 years ago, and could not because of repairs. 

The surprise of the trip was stumbling upon a sculpture site in a park.  The objects are large straw men and women working the field.  They were larger than life, and pretty cool looking.

All the images are on the website right now under: New Stuff 

Check ‘em out if you get a chance.