MY BIKE RIDE between light rain showers today kept me close to home.  The University of San Diego is always a visual feast, so I rode west on Friar's Road to Linda Vista Road where I turned up the hill to the campus.  It's especially stunning on a day when the sun plays hide-and-seek with the pear trees which are still in full bloom.  The Church of the Immaculata at the center of the USD campus is a parish church across the valley from Presidio Park and the museum that stands on the site of the original Mission Basilica San Diego Alcalá, which was the first Franciscan mission in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Today I found the first iris blooming in San Diego this year...