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• Feb 28th - Waiting for Tumacacori tour to begin
• Bob, Pam, Kathy, and Arnie
• Tumacacori Mission garden
• Our tour begins in the garden
• Rapt listeners
• Tumacacori is a National Park site
• Our docent talks about Father Kino
• An overview of the park site
• A view of the mission church circa 1917
• View of the renovated church
• Originally built here by Jesuits circa 1751
• The church and the priests homes
• The church priests lived here
• Renovation work
• Looking east
• Our tour group
• Three cisterns used to store water
• Church interior
• Passage to the choir loft
• Looking back to the main building with museum
• The altar area
• Altar ceiling
• Painting depicting the original setting
• The ceiling beams
• Altar wall
• Priests walkway
• Mortuary building behind the church
• Graveyard behind the mortuary building
• Looking west
• The graveyard
• Most were buried with stones and a cross
• This was a special grave
• The graveyard
• Area under renovation
• Franciscan garments
• Father Kino was the founding Jesuit priest
• Sculptures from the original church
• Sculptures from the original church
• A diorama depicting the church in the 1800's
• A depiction of the priest's working area
• These ladies made great tortillas
• From Tumacacori, we drove to Patagonia in the mountains southeast of there
• Inside "Velvet Elvis", a gourmet pizza restaurant
• The owner of the establishment
• Bob checks out the statue in front
• The garden in front of "Velvet Elvis"
• Their special margaritas were very tasty
• The front door and sign
• The horse and rider statue outside of the rodeo arena in Sonoita