Some pictures from recent trips

[Hans Deventer]

The most peculiar thing was this morning. The church you see below had bells that play music, we call it a "carrillion". Sitting at a table on the square before the church this morning, I heard it play "All My Loving" by The Beatles! Not quite a song you'd expect from an old church!

[Cecil Wallace]

Thanks, Hans. I really like to see pictures from other areas of the world.
That song would be an unexpected sound coming from a church. I wonder who was doing the programming.

BTW, in the last picture, what does the sign mean? The round red one with a white horizontal stripe? Just wondering.
Pedestrian Zone? No motorized vehicles?

Thanks.

[Hans Deventer]

BTW, in the last picture, what does the sign mean? The round red one with a white horizontal stripe? Just wondering.
Pedestrian Zone? No motorized vehicles?[/SIZE]

No, it means you cannot enter the street in this direction. It is a one way street. From the other side, you'd see the sign below.

[BobHunt]

back home in northern NY, a couple hours from us, there is a tourist area named Frontier Town. We had never been there, so one day my folks and the pastor and wife went to see it. It was a small model I suppose of what the west looked like, but we happened to go around the block, and off to one side we saw a little chapel. It was so small that we had to duck our heads to get inside. There was the altar at front and a few pews. I cant remember what hymns were playing, but as we stood there, we felt just as if we were in a mighty cathedral, for the presence of the Lord seemed to be there in a real way. We had prayer, and those few moments were the best ones all day long!

[Joel Merrill]

I always love your photos. I'm surprised that you are not a fisherman. It looks like such good fishing there.

Joel

[Hans Deventer]

I always love your photos. I'm surprised that you are not a fisherman. It looks like such good fishing there.

Joel

It just never got to me, Joel. I guess I am too impatient for it, though that might be the very reason fishing would be good for me! :basic05

[BobHunt]

in the area that we live in, northwest Indiana, it is very heavily populated with the what we call Dutch Reformed church. It is very common to drive by their homes and see small windmills in their yard or figurines of the Dutch boy and girl kissing. Dutch Reformed people have a few characteristics that stand out. One if them is that they often are in their own business and try very hard to hand the business down to their children, so that they are always financally stable. Its not a bad way of doing things. Our local grocery store has the name Van Til in it, and a local store that sells snowblowers, lawnmowers etc has the name Terpstra in it. They have several churches here, and I suppose would be more Calvinistic than the COTN. It makes for some real interesting discussions! I have had a few with some of their people! But they are good people, and its nice to know that you are dealing with honest people, especially when you are purchasing a product or a service. Another friend of ours has the last name of Bakker, he is a house painter. I love to look into other cultures and customs.