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Published: March 11th 2010
St. Mary's Catholic Church, in High Hill.
See how high the ceiling is? The scaffolding goes four levels high. They say all the work is volunteer, but I suspect they don't mean RVICS volunteers!(Camp Tejas)
We are back in Giddings, where we were in November, and I have to say I feel like we’re back in the US! There’s a check station on the highways leaving the valley, much like the border crossing into Canada, where they have drug dogs that walk around the vehicles while they ask questions of us. Apparently two white haired people are that threatening, because they didn’t come in and look through our bus, but we could see cars pulled aside that they were searching. When we got through that, it felt like a different country, and the language on the signs is English (mostly!). Bob and I both are really fond of this area.
We spent a week at the Village in Smithville, where not only did Bob attend the board meeting, but he was elected chairman of the board for 2010. We had a restful time there, and were quite ready to get on to the new project.
We were here in November, and if you need to review the scenery, check the back entries! We’re glad to be back, as we’re both really fond of this area, and especially this camp. We
Notice the gold trim.
It's like a mini-cathedral. are with Larry and Ruth, and Dan and Jill, from the past two months, and we’ve been joined by Terry and Penny….we’ve told them we’re glad for some fresh jokes!
In November we watched the staff release the water from the upper lake, so they could build a house over the lake…if you haven’t read that entry, it was quite an event! They didn’t get as far with it as they intended, because of the amount of rain they’ve received the past few months, but the lake has refilled to about four feet already! The men are working on that building. The women are painting the doors in the conference room (where the men raised the roof last time) and Ruth is working in the office; I’m painting the signs that I was working on four months ago. We’re also joined by two SOWER couples, and the women are also painting with us.
We are finally having spring weather; the trees are light green, like the buds are going to pop out any day, and birds are singing~~not birds like in downtown McAllen, but birds like come in trees! There are cardinals around, and I now can recognize
their songs.
Bob and I spent one afternoon last week exploring the “Painted Churches” in this area; there’s a heavy Czech history in this part of the state, and they built churches with European architectural design. Most of the churches are Catholic, and all are different, but the thing they have in common is that the painting on the interior is done by hand~~either stenciled, or free style, or backfilled. They are just exquisite…they resemble the huge cathedrals I’ve read about, but on a miniature style. All the churches are still being used, and in most cases, they’re in towns about the size of Savage! Not hard to spot once you find the town! We found five of them, and I think there are four more. Enjoy the pictures
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Lois
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Like the collection
Hi, I like your collection of the churches. Wow, I would say all of them are better than most of our homes. Wayne was just reading the people will not go to a church that is poorer in style and looks than their own home. I wonder if that is true.