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Last year, after we left Houston on our road trip, we headed to Oklahoma to visit Rachel’s aunt and uncle in Ardmore.

Well, we didn’t go directly from Houston to Ardmore. We actually headed toward Brenham and visited the Blue Bell Creamery there (and got ice cream, of course) and then headed north to Ardmore. This entailed spending a good amount of time on TX and US highways, which was just fine with me. On the way, I ended up heading off the beaten path to chase steeples every time I saw one that I thought was cool. These two photos are the result of such expeditions.

The first is of a UCC church. It wasn’t too far off the road, but was up on a hill and there was a lot of open space around it, so I was able to get a really good photo. I did some more post-processing magic to give it some film grain, and bumped down the saturation a bit to make it look a little more like an old color photo.

The second is the steeple of a Methodist church … this one much further off the road than the UCC church. It was about 5 miles of the road, to be precise, down a long dirt road, and onto another dirt road, and then onto a third … that was one lane for some time. Finally, I arrived at the church, which was surrounded by corn. Oddly enough, the sign up front said “visitors welcome” … as if anybody (other than me) would just happen upon this church. I’m betting I was the first person to come calling who didn’t know it was there … at least in the last ten years. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get as many good shots of it as the other, due to the surroundings … but I did get a nice shot of the steeple. I really wish I would have had a good wide angle lens (and another camera) on me … the building itself was stunning.

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