Happy Father's Day!
If you are looking for something to do with dad, consider going for a ride or taking a long walk. Go find places from his or your childhood. You could ride and look at the old-time ways in rural Guilford County. The North Carolina countryside is quickly disappearing, especially around Greensboro. However, here we see a country church at the corner of Pleasant Ridge and Carlson Dairy Road. Hopewell Wesleyan Church is over 100 years old. In the front is a cemetery and to the right a majestic old oak tree. Hopewell Wesleyan struggles with membership as so many people are seeking out the mega-churches.
Something about these churches seems so wholesome and pure.........
Your idea about Fathers Day is such a good one.
What a huge tree to go with the nice church.
We had a white wooden Methodist church in my neighborhood in Chicago and appropriately it was called The Country Church in the City.
Posted by: Dina | Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 08:30 AM
I prefer small church communities myself, so this would be perfect. That tree is huge and magnificent! The church looks positively puny beside it.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there!
Posted by: Hilda | Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM
That old Oak tree has grown up with the little church.Think of the picnics eaten on the ground it shades,the couples holding hands just a little ways from the church they would soon be married in,The games of tag played by kids just released from an hour of sitting still through services!
That is something the "Mega Churches " do not offer...history and a sense of time and place.
Wonderful photo. I need to get out and take some photos of our town churches. They have not all been gobbled up by the Mega's that are so popular here in So Cal.
Have a great Sunday afternoon!
Janis
Posted by: Janis Dority | Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 01:18 PM
Fantastic composition.
Posted by: Irina | Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 04:02 PM