Easter Sunday - HE IS ALIVE!!!!

Whether it is at a large or small church I hope everybody

will be in church this Easter morning.

I thought I should share some of my church photos for Easter Sunday.

St John's Lutheran Church in Knoxville, Tennessee Rural church in Rhea County, Tennessee.

Highlands United Methodist Church in Highland, North Carolina.

Marion Baptist Church in Marion Virginia.

Mount Carmel United Methodist Church in Virginia.

Wharf Hill United Methodist Church, close to Marion, Virginia.

This will be our first Easter in our new sanctuary at our church.

I only have photos of it under construction.

Crosses for Good Friday

I, like lots of other people photograph crosses.

It is one of the many things I seem to collect.

My daughter and daughter-in-law have cross collections in their homes.

I collect the photographs.

This first photo was taken in Cartagena, Columbia, February 2009,

it is high on the hill overlooking the city.Next is at a little church in Rhea County.

I never thought about the significance of this cross being in the foundation of the church until I was preparing this post. It just hit me, they were sending the message that their church's foundation was the cross. Nice message. The lawn of McCampbell United Methodist Church, close to Dandridge, Tennessee.

The next 3 photos were all taken at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, May 2008. The first photo is a natural grown cross, donated to Lake Junaluska.

While there I knew I had to capture the famous Lake Junaluska cross at sunrise. Inside one of the lobbies at Lake Junaluska.

Laurel Valley Community Church in Virginia.

The August post on this church can be view here.

(Darla, it is 'your' church.)

Don't know the name of this church,

it was in the area of Marion, Viriginia.

St Augustine at sunset, seen from a boat, April 2008.

Hope you have enjoyed a small collection of my

photographs of crosses on this Good Friday.

Old dinner bell and bucket at Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia

These old dinner bells in the yard of old farmhouses have such charm. They always attract me to them. I have one, but we have not put it up yet. Last summer we were in such indecision about whether we were going to get to stay where we are. Maybe I will get it put up this summer. Again, I have the original, then sepia and black and white.
This dinner bell is in the front yard, right behind it is the front porch that I took this photograph from. When I posted it I had a little more information about the Settlers Musuem.

I just liked the look of this bucket on the fence.

Not much difference in the color and the black and white, but the sepia looks entirely different.

You can click on Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia on the left sidebar and see all the photographs I took there. I am finished posting these color, black and white, and sepia versions of the museum grounds.

Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia

Some more photographs first in color original, then sepia and then black and white. These were also taken in the barn area of Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia.

Chicken Coop and other out structures at Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia

The first structure is the chicken coop.It is still being used. I posted a photograph of one of the roosters here.

These post I am doing today have me singing to myself "You shoulda seen it in color!"
Good thing nobody can hear me. No, I am not in the choir.

Out Structures at Settler's Museum of Southwest Virginia

More structures at the Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia. I was there in June 2008. Not sure what this first structure was used for. Probably just some type of storage.
First the orginal photos, then changed to Sepia and then black and white.

And onto one of the outhouses. Notice the birdhouse on the side. Guess you can be inside and enjoy the birds singing.

The Barn at Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia

I visited the Settlers Museum of Southwest Virginia in June while Jimmy was working in Marion, Virginia. These are 2 different photographs of one of the barns at the museum. I have turned each photograph sepia and then black and white.
The only changes I ever make to any of my photographs are to change them to sepia or black and white. I do not use Photoshop.