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Another from St. Patrick’s

This photo and the one below are from a situation I stumbled on the day before St. Patrick’s Day on my way to shoot an elementary school assignment. I arrived about a half hour early to the school in the small farming area of Parnell, but next door was this beautiful white church. I decided to wander in and met this woman with her two granddaughters, exploring the big, empty sanctuary and darting through sunlit corridors. These are the small situations we always wish to run into but rarely do.
(Grand Rapids Press Photos)

Big Church, Little Visitors

“Do you see the rainbow?” asks Cynthia Ruoff while reading the story of Noah’s Ark to her granddaughters Elle, 4, on left, and Emma, 3, in the empty quiet of St. Patrick’s Church on Tuesday, March 17 in Ada. Ruoff, who lives in Kalamazoo, attends St. Patrick’s whenever she visits her family in Ada and wanted to bring the girls to see St. Patrick’s statue in lieu of St. Patrick’s Day. The girls got to see what the sanctuary looked like from the balcony and even stepped up to the baptismal pool and peered inside. Ruoff said she likes coming when the church is empty because they don’t have to worry about talking loudly and the girls can explore. “I remember going to church with my own mother and doing some of these things,” Ruoff said, “except back then we walked to church,” she laughed.
(Grand Rapids Press Photo)

Google Fiber Flash Mob

Beth

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A Little Street Music

Mason Woods, 2, of Grand Rapids bangs on a Jimbay drum with street musician Carlos Cardenas, also of Grand Rapids while stopping to admire the performance with his mom Tuesday on Monroe Center. “There’s a freedom in it,” said Walter Pinder of Grand Rapids, another street musician who was playing the saxophone with Cardenas. “If people don’t like what your doing they just walk on by…but if they enjoy-they might stop.” The two just recently teamed up, although they plan to play together more in the summer, reading poetry as well. (Grand Rapids Press Photo)