A new and wonderful year has begun today!
I am so grateful to be alive and well, and able to take part in each new adventure, come what may!
(photo of Dalarna, Sweden. Not taken by your's truly however,)
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2013
A new and wonderful year has begun today!
I am so grateful to be alive and well, and able to take part in each new adventure, come what may!
(photo of Dalarna, Sweden. Not taken by your's truly however,)
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Wee Birthday Girl
Em sent me this photo of Teagan taken while she and Andrew were visiting for the Thanksgiving Holiday. They also celebrated her 3rd birthday while there. Hard to believe three years have already passed since she came to earth! I look forward with great anticipation to the future of this little girl. She is not only clever and very brave, but full of almost too many beans! Spilling out her ears at times!
A short video I took this past summer before they moved.
(Note the golden curls. She and Libby took scissors to their hair sometime after moving.) I miss my wee ones so!!
(Note the golden curls. She and Libby took scissors to their hair sometime after moving.) I miss my wee ones so!!
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Graves of the Prophets
Last evening my friend Harold and I took a drive up to the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Neither of us had ever seen the prophet's graves, all but 4 buried there ( Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Lorenzo Snow and Ezra Taft Benson), so we brought along a map and our cameras and set to work searching.
What an amazing thing to be where so many prophets and apostles have stood, and walked, and where their mortal remains lay. Some of the stones were almost too worn to read, that of John Taylor for instance, but some, like my President Hinckley's were new and clear.
Brigham Young's grave is located in a tiny cemetery just off of First Ave. with several of his wives and some lovely gardens, just set there between some old homes. I must have passed it a hundred times and never knew it was there.
I've always been fascinated with death, and graveyards, never feeling the morbid or scary feeling often associated.
To visit these beautiful places makes me feel even more grateful and excited, for knowledge that these great men and women are very much alive, just in another place for now, and that one day, I will see these and others I love.
Beside his beloved Marjorie.
Loved this carved stone of Orrin Porter Rockwell.
A beloved husband and wife who left Scotland for their new home in Zion. Beautiful carved stones.
Someone's darling baby boy.
And lastly, sweet Harold who loves these kinds of things, as I do.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Golden Plates
Our church recently held a Book of Mormon Gala, and asked members to create pieces of art to share. I knew immediately that I wanted to create an authentic (almost) reproduction of the plates as described by the Prophet Joseph and others who saw and held them. My friend cut a block of wood to the described measurements and I went to work scoring and creating the Reformed Egyptian with a wood burning tool. Wire hangers made the rings, which were "D" shaped, and gold paint finished them off. Check out this site to read all about the original plates and testimony of those who actually saw and held them:
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