Salem Lutheran ChurchDianne and I have just been cruisin' the well made road that gently winds its way through the rolling Bremer River Valley between Strathalbyn and Callington in South Australia.
It was a late Spring afternoon; you know the kind where the country air is crisp, clean and cool like a good, dry white wine. We stopped by the way and soaked up the picture perfect landscape. The little Lutheran church at Salem looked stunning across the maturing wheat crops, as it reflected back the thinning early evening sunlight. The rolling hills on the other side of the river valley made a marvellous backdrop, with the occasional eucalypts casting lengthening shadows.
We had a close look at the church and discovered it was erected in 1890. Presumably a township was planned for on the banks of the Bremmer, but it seems to have never come to pass, and this grand little church with its empty steeple and blank clock now sits in isolation except for the lonely church graveyard nearby.
I gave this post the title I have because on close inspection I found it was always 10:00 o'clock at Salem. The clock in fact has no working mechanism, and the hands are painted onto the clock face.
The image was taken with a Sony DSC-F828 at full zoom, f=5.6, 1/120th sec, ISO 64, hand held. Two images were snapped and the landscape with stitched using "PhotoVista".
Location 35.155451S 139.0241979E bearing approx 070 Deg T.
Click this link to Google Earth Salem, South Australia
This Googlemap image shows the photo location. (North up).
