Yesterday John and I went to a state park near Omaha to do some hiking and just be outside. On the way there we stopped by a beautiful structure called the Holy Family Shrine. It's a church that was recently built on a hill amongst natural prairie grasses and wildflowers. It's open to visitors and we had been wanting to stop by and see it.

Normally there is a stream of water running through this crack in the walkway but they were working on it while we were there.


Water runs underneath the alter



Water runs in these holes under the pews
When we were back outside I bent down to take a picture of the church and realized my head was about 4 inches from this! That thing was at least 2 inches across. Guh-ross.
Later in the day, on the other side of town we saw this praying mantis
I think he was looking for the Holy Family Shrine.