The splash white from a rural church catches the eye while passing by on the road.
A Country Church
Picture of the Day for March 6, 2016
Most of the recent snow probably will melt with warmer temperatures and predicted rain so maybe the ground will be visible again, although it will be brown instead of green until the grass starts growing again.
Church Amongst the Snow
Picture of the Day for February 21, 2016
This past Thursday, the Cathedral of Christ the King in Superior, Wisconsin, was filled with people to witness the ordination of the new bishop. The Most Rev. James P. Powers was ordained as the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Superior.
Cathedral of Christ the King
Picture of the Day for January 31, 2016
The stars normally seem brighter during the cold winter nights, but this January it has been hard to see the stars with all the cloudy days and nights. And even though I have taken photographs of the stars in the winter time, it is more fun to do it in the warmer weather when you don’t need extra batteries warming in your pockets and don’t have to try turning camera knobs with heavy gloves on. But I do know the winter star constellations more than the summer ones due to all the trips to the lambing barn in February, but I took this nighttime church picture before the snow came.
Star Constellations and a Church
Picture of the Day for December 20, 2015
This country church may still be flanked by the pine trees but on this Sunday, the lawn may have patches of snow and the maple tree would have deposited its leaves on the ground two months ago. The church was built in 1923 and appears to be in fairly good shape yet.
Zion Lutheran Church
Picture of the Day for November 29, 2015
A month ago, the trees displayed colorful autumn colors but now the scene has changed to bare trees and snow covering the ground.
Autumn Sunday
Picture of the Day for October 18, 2015
Halfway between Roberts and River Falls, Wisconsin, sits a white church built in 1868. The church was originally shared by a Methodist and a Congregationalist congregation for services on alternate Sundays. It was reported that the bell was given by a Mississippi steamboat captain and the Methodist design included pews with a divider down the middle keeping men and women on opposite sides.
When Methodist numbers declined, Congregationalists bought the building in 1895 and used it until 1951. A group of people formed the Kinnickinnic Historical Association to purchase the vacant church so that it wouldn’t be converted to a house. The church, which contains a historic pump organ, is currently used for social events in the community including fund raisers for the upkeep of the church. On October 6, 2000, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Kinnickinnic Church
Picture of the Day for September 13, 2015
In a few weeks, the hills surrounding this church will be ablaze with autumn color and it has seen many autumn seasons as the date above the entrance states 1864.
Church Waiting for Another Autumn
Picture of the Day for August 23, 2015
On a ridge in southwestern Wisconsin, sit a 45 by 65 foot church built out of 150,000 bricks which was dedicated on January 20, 1901, to become the third church for the German Lutherans in the Ridgeville area which was organized in 1862. Above the entrance are the words “EV LUTH ST JOHANNES KIRCHE”, as a 110 foot tower bell climbed above and could be heard throughout the countryside, until the steeple was damaged in a storm and replaced with a cap in 1948, only a few years after when the last German service was discontinued in the early 1940s to all English services. It would have nice to see St. John’s with the tall steeple but it is still an impressive brick church.
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Picture of the Day for August 16, 2015
Many of the rural churches are surrounded by farmland, like Immanuel Lutheran Church, which by its cornerstone stated it was Rebuilt in 1923, but I didn’t find any other history on the church.
With some rain moving in this afternoon, some farmers may be out baling hay on a Sunday to get it up before it gets wet.
Church Among the Fields
