Place: Memories from Old Town, San Diego.......

Old Town is a historical landmark of San Diego...with much to see and learn...

'Dia de los Muertos' or  'Day of the dead' offering altar (ofrenda) .....
Decorated with marigolds, calaveras (skulls) and culturally important things...
Favorite things of the deceased..
clothes...sombrero,  shawl, lace, shoes etc.
and foods...beans, salsa, tortilla, tamale, bread, nopal, chipotle, tamarind, gourds...
hobbies, habits...cards, dice, cigar.....

The altar for the most haunted American house, the 'Whaley House'...

La Catrina  and El Catrin......

These pretty blooms were gracing the gardens and premises of Old Town....
Such a riot of colors and assortment of delicate beauty!!It was so fulfilling to take their pictures..
Mum....

Cosmos....

Rose...

Jacaranda...

Hydrangea...

Golden chalice...

Hibiscus....

Black-eyed susan...

Passion flower...

Sweetgum......

Azalea.......

A giant fig.......

Prickly pear....

There is this souvenir shop in Old Town, San Diego...with hordes of decor items...I absolutely love checking out the pretty items on display...enjoy some of them...

Elephants to La Catrinas and skulls....

Dreamcatchers..........

Rust metal dinosaurs, Little Buddhas, saints to Venetian masks..

Cherubs..

Macaw-painted potteries..

Cheerful frog figurines..

Attractive owls..

Tree face sculpture..

Hula girl, dolphins..

Bird bath with wildlife statuettes embedded to the rim...

Spotted these captivating pieces of crafts ...the clay decor had SouthWestern art...
Man wearing sombrero taking a nap in Sonoran desert, at the base of Saguaros and prickly pears, as the moon rises...

Here two women shown walking through the desert....

Metal wind spinner.......

Place: Mission San Diego fauna............

In my visits, I see a bunch of critters in Mission San Diego garden....nothing exotic, our regular folks, yet very fascinating...

This jolly guy perched atop the paperbark gazed at me intently and gave some nice shots.....

There were flocks of humming birds...this Anna was sipping nectar from hibiscus and in between posing for my Canon....

An Allen hummingbird....

This munia on a almost bare pepper tree was a rather unusual spotting..

I was pleasantly surprised to see this male bluebird on the Mission fence..

Song sparrow was singing from the sumac....

An oriole on the olive..........

An oriole on the camphor tree.......

Mockingbird on its regular perch of bougainvillea...........

Bunny........

Crow..........

woodpecker on the coral tree.....