InSPIREd Sunday - Minnesota Lutherans

I have so many spires from the last year so here is another batch for this weekend. In posting these, I realized they are all Lutheran churches with a wide variety of architectural styling.

St. Peter's Lutheran Church - Audubon, MN

(Former) Our Saviors Lutheran Church - Rothsay, MN

Trinity Lutheran Church - Pelican Rapids, MN

Bethlehem Lutheran Church - Fergus Falls, MN

Linking to InSPIREd Sunday - a weekly meme sharing inspiring religious architecture from around the globe. Non-denominational, all faiths welcome, even non-practicing. :-)

Booming!

A booming we will go, a booming we will go, hi ho the derry-o, a booming we will go.

That just might be the theme song for prairie chickens each Spring as the males perform their mating ritual called booming. The male stomps his feet and lets out a booming sound from air sacs on each side of his neck.

Prairie chickens, while once plentiful on the open prairies, have dropped in significant numbers due to over-hunting and loss of habitat. The town of Rothsay, Minnesota bills itself as the Prairie Chicken Capital of the World and boasts it is the home of the largest prairie chicken in the world. If this statue is any indication, I can only imagine how beautiful these birds are in real life.

Booming Prairie Chicken - Rothsay, Minnesota