The Catholic Church...

 I am not sure how these picture were taken, possibly drone. There's Tipton's Catholic church  in it's glory .

 The two story house just to the right, on the corner, is the priest's  house. Big and nice for one man and a housekeeper. LOL

 This shows a better view of that house.  My mom's house was four blocks north of this corner. So I have always loved this old church. I have gone there for weddings, baptisms, and Communions. I was baptized into the Christian Church. Another of my favorites.

 When I lived in town , I  walked by this church on many of my walks. I would always look up to the crosses. One high upon a steeple and one on the tower with the rosette window.
  Many years back, lightening struck the steeple and the steeple  burned. The church replaced it . But who ever was in charge of all that rebuilding ,hiring the builders, no one thought to check the structural  soundness of the entire church.  After all lightening is a tremendous force of power.

 Things started happening to the church's structure, tiles and the coating falling .  The church was deemed unsafe. It had to be torn down.  The steeple was removed and saved. The pews, the stain glass, and the statues were saved also. Many more things.

 You can see the brick under the layer of "stucco" , not sure what that is called. So all that is left of that beautiful old church is the steeple . There's been fund raisers of all kinds, to rebuild our Catholic church.

 Over the weekend there was a festival in the little town south of Tipton. My daughters went for the day. I used to go with them, but honestly my feet can not do that many miles of walk and standing around.  Sad but true.

My daughter Karen bought this for me, in memory of the church. The man called it a pen and pencil holder. It is made from the pipes of the church's pipe organ. So thoughtful of Karen. I am thankful for my beautiful loving daughters.
  I hope you are still reading. On Saturday evening , my classmates and I were celebrating our 55th reunion. We are old for sure. After dinner, visiting and picture taking everyone went home. There are couples in our class that married .
  One such couple went home and the husband decided to call his son once more before going to bed. He had called him twice during the day and no answer either time. So he just goes over to his son's house . Upon letting himself in, he found his son dead from a self inflected gunshot.  A tragedy that has left us all shocked. I am asking for prayers or good thoughts for this couple, please.
  Please talk with your children about suicide. This was suicide prevention month.