Tom knows that I love flowers and gardens (smart guy! :)) so he took me to a few gardens including this Japanese Garden. It is a 6 1/2 acre garden--really big. You can see the Japanese teahouse in the background in the top picture. As you can tell, it was a gorgeous day! We had the best weather!!! I loved that many of the plants and trees were blooming. There were ducks and large fish in the water. They also had two small waterfalls so different areas had that wonderful waterfall noise. Tom and I sat down for awhile in an arbor and listened to the water it was just so peaceful and calm.
I love this picture of Tom. It totally makes me laugh. He surprises me sometimes when he does silly stuff--I like it! This is his Egyptian pose. :) He's also showing off the zigzag bridge. It's supposed to be representative of an 11th century story called Tale of Ise. It's kind of cool.
After the Japanese Gardens we went to the San Fernando Mission. It is the fourth mission that was built in California between 1804 and 1806. They had a picture what it looked like way back (not sure what year) and there was nothing in the area except the mission--no trees, greenery, or homes. It's wild to see now because now it's all homes, businesses, vegetation and cement.
This is a picture in one of the buildings. It was distinctly Spanish style. Of course this was a religious center so they had a lot of church artifacts. The blue archway is actually painted--not brick or stone. Around the archway on the left side it's also painted. In person, you can tell it's painted, but the pictures make it look like it's part of the structure.
They have an open courtyard area in the center. A very stark contrast to the Japanese Garden. Bob Hope is actually buried here at the Mission. They have a little garden on the other side of the church with the graves and a sculpture.
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