This was my first opportunity to have almost everyone missing my daughter, Isabelle) united for a photograph and a meal. We are grandparents twice in a year, to Luc And Felix.
The next photo is for my wife,
21 missions were created in what would become California by the mexican church. Mission Solano was the last and furthest north, in Sonoma.
I reported on the mission San Miguel the 16th mission established. These missions were really multi-purposed, religious, to convert the indians to catholicism, and to show a Mexican presence in both a political and military way on land claimed by Mexico.
These Missions are testament to a complex history between the United States and Mexico. While not associated with the Missions; the name Vallejo, figures prominently in this history, A general, a diplomat, a businessman. His name appears all over California today. I was completely surprised by how “American” his house; in fact how “New England.”