Barbara Hart Radisavljevic
This is the mission courtyard. As you can see, most of the plants are cacti. You can also see how rural the area around the mission is. The mission church, which still holds services, is in the background. It was closed for a long time after what locals call the San Simeon earthquake in 2003. I experienced that earthquake. It killed two people in Paso Robles. It also damaged this mission and many other structures in Paso Robles and Atascadero.
Ellie, I was quite frightening when it happened, and I had a lot of clean-up to do at home afterwards, since my house was in the fault line.
This is a very beautiful place! I am sorry to hear about the earthquake!
We heard about it, but couldn’t feel it. Or I didn’t anyway. I do remember it because of the hot springs opening.
Now that was a stinky business! The library parking lot smelled for months — what was left of it.