Saturday, June 4, 2011

St. Mary Church & More

The Ozark River Valley....just beautiful! 

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The town of Atlus is below....

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The St. Mary Church is atop this hill with a beautiful view of the Ozark River Valley.

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The Church with...

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the cemetery in the backyard...

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The beautiful organ pipes sure are colorful....

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The side alter and                                                   beautiful stained glass.

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As we left the church grounds.....a look back with the cemetery in the foreground.

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The nice old house across the street.

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Heading back to Barling to our coach, we cross the Arkansas River.  Beautiful sight of the Ozark Mountains.

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As we traveled all through this area, we saw many trees down but this area north of Chaulksville was devastated by the recent tornadoes.

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I had never seen anything like this.  For a few miles, this is what the whole area looked like. 

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House after house, you can see only where the foundations are  left.   Cars and just a lot of mangled trees. 

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These poor people, left homeless and without with nothing.  So sad to see this.  I have never seen anything like this.

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Even this church has damage but not like the homes!  God Bless these people.  Lives were lost here, too.

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This has been another great day!  Western Arkansas is just beautiful.

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