flowers in the window
St. John Methodist Episcopal Church
Johnson Mesa, New Mexico
8.13.2013
Showing posts with label Johnson Mesa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnson Mesa. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
behold God's handiwork
The St. John Methodist Episcopal Church has held weekly services since 1897. It would be difficult to concentrate on the Sunday sermon while admiring the glorious spring view of the mesa (or puzzling why the pews are painted pink).
Johnson Mesa
Highway 72
New Mexico
5.26.2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
view from the pulpit
The St. John Methodist Espiscopal Church is a stone building erected in 1897 atop Johnson Mesa. Johnson Mesa is a high, stark plateau-- lushly green this time of year -- rising 2000 feet above the Raton valley. In 1887 miners from Raton, disgruntled with hard work in the mines, took advantage of free land and attempted ranching and farming on the mesa. Alas, equally hard work and harsh weather took their toll. Today, where once there was a homestead on every 160 acres, only a few ranches, abandoned homesteads -- and the Johnson Mesa Church -- remain.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)