Church

I have seen a lot of interesting things driving around the South this week. This one.... I had to turn around and photograph. This is a church right out side of Chattanooga on the east side of Lookout Mountain, right below the mountain. I was driving on the highway right in front of it and saw it out of the corner of my eye.

Church at Uptop Ghost Town

Miniature Church

This is a miniature church that was just inside the door of the courtyard of a house we visited last weekend.

Christmas Eve at the Basilica in Milwaukee

St. Anne's Chapel at Glenco, NM

Chapel on the property of the Bonnell and Coe families in Lincoln County.

Lincoln in November

Rascal at the Wortley Hotel.

High Road To Taos

This was a controlled burn in the Carson National Forest.




Church at Las Trampas.


Cemetery at Las Trampas.







Church at Truchas.


Truchas overlook.


Our touring car in front of the Cordova Weaving shop in Truchas.

Church at Golden

Quari

Quari was my favorite site to visit. When you walk into the ruin, you really get a feel for what the church was like. The site also has beautiful gardens and springs as part of the walk.

Abo

Abo was abandon during the drought period, but was quickly re-inhabited by Spanish and Mexican immigrants.  There is an old farm that is still occupied right below this site.

Gran Quivera

I haven't visited the Salinas Monuments in about 15 years.  Each site has a visitors center, now.  Most of the sites have not been fully excavated, so the stories about what happened in these communities are largely based on the Spanish record.  The Franciscans came to convert the pueblo people to Catholicism.  Soon after the Spanish arrival - the pueblo people built churches and were forced to cover their traditional kivas.  The churches at the sites were either never used or were used for very few years.  Drought and starvation soon followed the Franciscans.  The Pueblo people were forced to sell their back store of corn that they had always relied upon during drought years.  When the drought years began, hundreds of people died and these pueblos were abandoned.

San Vicente de Paul - on the Manzano Land Grant

Tucson Churches

St. Augustine Cathedral, downtown Tucson.

San Xavier del Bac Mission, just south of Tucson.