Drove to see some more “Painted Churches” which, surprisingly, are painted albeit not too well on the outside. The first unit we saw was in an unmapped location in a town called Dubina, which means “oak grove” in Eastern European Bohunk or Czechoslovakian or Singlebrowvian.
The church was called Saint Bob’s or something and unscheduled tourists, like us, are apparently not allowed in because the building was locked. From my perspective, the outside looked just like a church with poor exterior painting.
From there we went to Ammannsville to see another church called Saint Somethingorrather’s which was not locked. It had much better exterior painting and, since it was unlocked, we could go in to admire the interior painting, as well. Not only was the interior painting, including detail work, quite nice but the windows and interior religious doodads were spiffy as well. Peg got pix of everything, I think.
Then we drove back over to La Grange to get a look at the inside of the courthouse which we could not access the last time we were there. It is pretty neat with lots of architectural stuff to make it interesting. Handrail assemblies at the stairs, the atrium concept and the interior fountain are spiffy and the transom doors are beautiful.
Peg then drove us into Columbus for another lookabout. We also got some ice cream at a place called “Dairy Cone” which also seemed to be surrounded by funny-looking neighbors. One guy was strolling around with the crotch of his pants directly between his knees and another guy had a do that made his head look like an elongated cylinder. Very weird.
On the way back to the Invader we wandered around on some country roads and only saw about 125 deer.