I've lived in San Antonio a long time,

[Saphire]

I've been to and photographed all of the other Missions, but never this one. I guess because it's so busy most of the time, but I got this one late last night.

[Mira]

1. Your photos of your town exude a character and an age

very fascinating to me because I know nothing in my own history that has this type of beauty and it's therefore appealingly strange. You are making a powerful case for a visit.
I like the color in this photograph a lot, and as I study the facade, I would love to know more about the building.
Its vibrant and alive!

[Celebration]

2. Mira......................

A hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die
A line that he drew with his sword when the battle was nigh
The men who would fight to the death, cross over, and them that would live better fly.
And over that line stepped a hundred and seventy nine.

High up, Santa Ana, we're killin' your soldiers below
So the rest of Texas will know,
And remember

THE ALAMO

[Mira]

3. Egg on my face, for sure. I've lived in this country too long

to be so ignorant.
So that is what it looks like!
Every damn day I have to learn something. It gets tiring.

In the too much information department this display of my ignorance reminds me of something my friend Vici told me some years ago:

As we get older we keep learning. Something new every day gets stuffed into our brain and room has to be found to store it. The capacity gets smaller and from the push of the new stuff at the back of the head, through a small opening, things fall out.
We have no control over what the things are that we lose every day as we keep learning.
Therefore we can't blame ourselves if something is simply no longer there when we need it.

On a serious note.
I will remember to go see the Alamo if at all possible.

[Celebration]

4. you just

forgot to watch Davy Crockett when you were a kid. ;)

[Mira]

5. Who's Davey Crockett?

Seriously, I was not even thinking about America when I was a kid. I know the name of Davey, but that's it.
I was here for the Cartwright family, 3 sons and a Dad on the Ponderosa.
And I learned about Mayberry and Andy Griffith because that is 36 miles from me, Mount Airy, NC.
There are huge, what we Germans call "Bildungsluecken", in my reality.

translation: gaps in my extended education.

:rofl:

[Celebration]

6. Davy

Here is the theme song for the TV show. If you listen carefully you will find out that he "killed him a b'ar when he was only three."

This is much better than looking at Wikipedia--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxJLTs-iUM&feature=related

For the Alamo, Davy is the guy in the buckskin suit and the coonskin hat.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Tu8NskR-E

[Mira]

10. Thank you Celebration-

I will learn with your links, and I appreciate your effort a lot.

[JeffR]

7. Beautiful building!

:o

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. very black

indeed

[Saphire]

8. trivia..my husbands portrait hung in the Alamo for a while. He was the

youngest living decendant of one of the survivors (Dr. Sutherland) and is also a decendant of Daniel Boone.

[NV Whino]

11. Very nice shot

And certainly qualifies for black.

[CC]

12. I love this shot of it.!

Never been there though would love to sometime. This looks like it should be a shot that you look at and see it all at once but it snares you instead with the detail you caught and holds your attention. Your shot is one of the few that really makes me want to go and be able look closer and touch different elements. And take my camera. :)

Note to Mira- My SO said not to be worried about not recognizing it. He grew up listening to what happened there but when he finally got to visit it at 19 (after boot camp) he was almost went right by it and it still makes his most disappointing visit to a landmark yet list. He had built it up in his Mid-Atlantic farm boy mind to be this great fortress and it was a (his words) dilapidated little old church thing. It was around 1967 and I understand that it was falling into decay at the time but he based his ideas off movies from the time and his hero worship of those that died there.
Then there was Ozzie and his pissing on it one drunken night.

[Solly Mack]

13. Love it! The building just screams history. It has a story to tell.