St Mary's Catholic Church, Praha, Texas

Went someplace today that I have intended to go for twenty years or more. Central Texas has a number of small Catholic churches built by the German and Czech settlers. Many of the churches are elaborately decorated. These are known as The Painted Churches. Schulenburg, a small town about two-thirds the way between Houston and San Antonio is located somewhat in the center of The Painted Churches. The Chamber of Commerce there conducts tours of the churches and provides maps for those that want to visit the churches on their own.

Debi is considering doing one of the tours as a camera club activity so we drove over to check them out. We were only able to make four of the churches and I could have spent the entire day photographing in any one of them.

These photographs are from the first that we photographed, St Mary's Catholic Church in Praha, Texas. I probably took somewhere around three hundred photographs but it is late and this is all I am going to get processed tonight.