post script

This is a post script to my just issued blog. I would be unfair to portulaca If I didn't give it a little time in the "press." It has colorful beautiful blooms and blossoms from now until frost comes. It is drought resistant and reseeds itself in the pots where it is grown. The other picture here is a gerbena daisy growing under an iris plant. Gerbenas are fussy and like tender care. They are exceedingly beautiful. I took some pictures of my tomato plants, but they are nothing to look at even though they do sport some young green tomatoes. gwh

Lilies, wisteria and cosmos

Lilies are blooming profusely right now. They must have liked all of the rain we have had. I have the most wonderful wisteria vine, but in five years it has never bloomed even though it is growing all over my front porch. The first cosmos of the season have bloomed. The nice thing about cosmos is that they bloom the rest of the growing season as well as showing a pretty face.

In addition to writing about the flowers, I want to add a few brief words about a couple of spectacular celebrations that took place in the last five days. Sunday, Father's Day, many of the family that live close or semi-close came to these premises and celebrated. I was the oldest father there. I am going to try to name all who were present. (I'm getting old, and if I can't remember every one please forgive me.) But here goes: Jalayne, Lisa, Phil, Sheridan, Zach, Max, Mike, Emily, Kim, Chris, Elliott, Quinn, Ashley, Justin, Taylor, Braxton, Carol, Beth, Diane, Clarine and George. Jalayne was a prime-mover and helped greatly to pull the occasion together. Phil did the honors at the grill and every one brought "stuff" to eat so we really celebrated with a feast.

Yesterday was Elliott's third birthday and many of us reassembled to the Lucherinni house in Kaysville. It was another wonderful feast with Chris at the grill. The rest of the people were people closely related to Elliott, and I am not going to try to name them as I will certainly get into trouble. There were parents, grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins present. Elliott seemed to have a great time with his family around him and all of the "loot" that he got. gwh

The sign of the last total deluge

We have had much rain in the month of June to date. Yesterday afternoon as the sun began to peep through from the west, there was a lovely rainbow low in the sky in the east. Due to the location of the rainbow, my neighbors house as well as an anonymous bike rider got some exposure. There is one more pic from the Bear Lake trip that I am forwarding as well. It is of the Oxford Ward chapel. I only browsed once, but the program gave me two exposures of the same shot. (Oh well, it would be more difficult to adjust the blog than to forward a double picture.) When I was really young there was an older chapel on the site. This one was built new while I was still young. President Heber J. Grant came and dedicated it, and I got to shake his hand. Now the ward has been combined with one of the Clifton Wards. and this one is used as a barn.

We are getting a lot of temple time lately. I guess I am the one getting unusual time: the regular shift last Saturday and Monday (Clarine was to both of those), Diane and I went to the stake temple day on Tuesday. I am substituting for another ordinance worker today, Friday, and Clarine and I will be back on our regular shifts tomorrow and Monday. As you can tell I love the temple. gwh

Bear Lake - third and final BLOG

Pictures with this blog include - a bed of irises at the Oxford cemetery - 3 pictures of humongous willow trees by the Arctic Circle in Soda Springs, Idaho - Dan Allred and George Hatch shooting wrist rockets on location at Hooper Spring in Soda Springs, Idaho. (I would have put a description by each photo, but I have learned from sad experience that when ever I do this, everything gets rearranged again when I post the blog.) gwh

Bear Lake - Paris, Idaho Tabernacle

Wednesday, last week, Dan/Deanna Allred, Clarine and I got in Allred's new Accura SUV and we drove north out of Garden City. Some of the towns we visited were Bloomington, St. Charles, Paris, Ovid, Montpelier, Georgetown, Afton, Thane, Soda Springs and return. //the photos in this blog were all taken at the Paris, Idaho Tabernacle - an old beautiful building. It is well cared for and stake conferences, seminary graduations and the like are still held there. The tour guide gave us a brief recital on the organ. It was a good day, and the towns we visited were in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. At Thane, Wyoming we visited the cheese plant and had an ice cream cone. (I had maple nut; I don't find that flavor too often.) At Hooper Spring in Soda Springs, Dan and I got out our sling shots and did some target practice at various things around that could not be damaged by our play. gwh (I will likely post one more blog regarding the week spent at Bear Lake.)