Note: This blog was created by James Truong via email using a service called Posterous. Posterous builds a blog when you email photographs. James took photographs using an iPhone (little camera). Some photographs were taken by his mother using a Canon Digital SLR (big camera). The photographs are all watermarked accordingly. All blog posts (except this one, and the set-up post) were typed by James whose typing speed is 3 words per minute. Some posts include a group of photos that were emailed at once, they form "sets" on the blog. 

These paintings are on display at the de Saisset museum.

There are steps, statues, a plaque, and a welcome mat at the mission's entrance.

"On Nov. 19, 1781, in an elaborate ritual, Father Serra blessed and laid a cornerstone for the third Mission Church. In a cavity in the cornerstone were placed a crucifix, religious images, and Spanish coins to signify the Church treasury. (The cornerstone was accidentally found by a workman digging for a gas main along Franklin Street in 1911. The cornerstone and its contents are on display in the Mission Room of the University’s de Saisset Museum.)"

"The eight white crosses on the front lawn memorialize the 1989 martyrdom of the six University of Central America Jesuit priests and their co-workers during the Salvadoran Civil War. "

- A self-Guided Walking Tour of Mission Santa Clara 

There were many paintings and sculptures inside the mission. 

The wood from the original cross is enclosed in redwood.

Mission Santa Clara was rebuilt many times.

In the de Saisset museum.

The Ohlones lived in tule reed huts. They ground acorns with grinding stones. They used baskets for fishing, holding food, and carrying their babies. Mission Santa Clara recorded the most baptisms and deaths of native people of all the missions.