Texas Wildflowers

My husband and I went hunting for bluebonnets this past weekend.  We found a beautiful field of these wildflowers...
Simona McKey

Mission Concepcion - San Antonio, TX

More than a church, Mission Concepcion was also a village, fort, school, farm, and ranch.  At the mission the Franciscans gathered the native people together, converted them to Catholicism, taught them Spanish culture, and sought to establish Spanish control of the Texas frontier (c. 1731).

Mission San Jose - San Antonio, TX #2

Mission San Jose and its surrounding fields sustained a thriving community of Indians and Spaniards.  Within the walls Indians lived, worshipped, and attended classes.  They learned to blacksmith, to weave European looms, to cut stone, and to make shoes and cotton clothes.  Outside the walls, the mission Indians tended fields, orchards, and livestocks (c. 1782).

Mission San Jose - San Antonio, TX