California Door

In March 1760, a couple of hundred men left Mexico to found the first Spanish church in California. Their leader was a Franciscan Jesuit priest named Father Junipero Serra. This first of 21 missions was built here in San Diego and was called Mission San Diego de Alcala. All the missions were about a day's walk apart along a road called El Camino Real.

No way this is the original door because the mission was burnt by natives in 1775 and destroyed by an earthquake in 1803 and another one in 1812. Plus the mission was moved around 1774.

Here's an online tour of the San Diego mission.

There's something adventurous and potentially life-altering about passing through a door. Literature is loaded with doors and characters who cross thresholds.

For a look at some doors around the world, Frank Gardner, the brainchild of these door posts, has links at My Painted Box. Elizabeth helped organized this blogging event and has links too at The House in Marrakesh.

I leave you with a couple of Spanish proverbs dealing with doors:

"When fortune knocks upon the door, open it widely."

"Shut your door and you will make a prison."