Church Photo in Lieu of Attendance - Stono Baptist Church

Stono Baptist Church, Ravenel, SC    

I am captive at home with the sniffles this weekend so dipping into my back road photo albums for this morning's Church Photo in Lieu of Attendance.

Every photographer I know has stopped to take a picture of this sweet chapel on a hill in Ravenel. Because of that we can track the deterioration through the captured images. The piano used to be upright in place but now is flat on it's back. This time I also spotted the typo in the word "cemetery" in the sign :). Ooops.

Church Photo in Lieu of Attendance - Ravenel

United Methodist Church, Ravenel, S.C.

We haven't added to the Church Photo in Lieu of Attendance series lately but this lovely historic church in Ravenel, SC fits the bill for a spring time image. The azaleas were in bloom and I had to stop to take a picture and wander through the churchyard cemetery.

There was an odd startling moment when I saw a tombstone with the name of a vibrant and alive friend on it. That is always weird.

“Spring had really come. The south opened like a mouth. It blew one long breath, humid and warm, and flowers quivered inside the seeds, and the round earth began to ripen like fruit.”
Jean Giono (found in Provence: A Country Almanac)