Painted Churches of Texas

After we left Arkansas and drove through Oklahoma.  We haven't driven through Oklahoma in a couple of years and if we can avoid it we certainly will.  We took freeway, U. S. highway and toll road through Oklahoma.  The toll road was tolerable but the rest of the roads were horrible.  We hit Texas and breathed a sigh of relief because the roads are so much better.   We stayed in a little towns across Texas.  We took some state highways which were pretty nice roads although some not so nice.  We stayed in the Paris, TX and then Athens, TX - funny how Texans like to name their towns after capital cities.   We then hit the little town of La Grange, TX.  We managed to bypass Dallas and Austin. 

A few miles from La Grange is one of the famous painted churches of Texas.   These are churches built in the 1800's by German and Czech immigrants.  If you want to do the full auto tour and see them all you start by the town of Schulenburg.  We only went to see this one that was close to La Grange.  It was St. Johns and built in 1890.  The churches are famous because of the bright colors they were painted on the inside.  This one has an orange interior.  It was very pretty and very well kept.  It is still in use as a church. 

We are now in Corpus Christi, TX enjoying some very warm weather.