Visitors

We had visitors yesterday. Clarine did not come outside when I was taking pictures, so she is not shown in any of the poses. All of the rest of us are included in one photo or another. We ate pizza, soda, whipped cream and Jello, and sour dough biscuits. Some of your may not recognize the people by their photos, so I will name them. Beside Clarine and I, Jalayne Hatch, my granddaughter in the red shirt was there. The other visitors were the Lucherinis - Chris, Kim (my granddaughter) Elliott and Quinn. With that much information, a good detective could identify every one. One more clue - Quinn is the littlest and youngest. Hey gang, it was nice of you to come and see us. By the way in the fire pit you can see a fire is glowing. gwh

Pics - Wayne Morgan Funeral

Fascination

Last evening I was fascinated with the light, color (or lack thereof) and the actual beauty of the outdoors from my backyard during a thirty second interval. There was an ever so slight tint from the setting sun. One must look closely to discern the effects of the sunset. The lighting circumstances made some nice silhouettes. I found the pics enjoyable. I hope you do too. gwh

General Conference

General Conference has been most wonderful. Those who have attended at our place are shown in the pictures. In addition to Clarine and I, it amounts to a trio of Russell girls -Hannah, Beth and Carol - a quintet of the Lisa and Phil Hatch family, Sheridan, Zack and Max included. It was nice to have family around. The speakers have been very uplifting as well. I think I am not able to adequately express the way that I am not the same as I was before conference started. It is a process that happens every six months that is among the most significant things that I experience at this stage of my life. It even brings a type of sweetness and happiness that is unsurpassed. I hope that each of you have feasted fully at this same wonderful "table." gwh

Indian Summer

Today, 2 October 2009, Clarine and I decided to go for an easy, relaxing drive. I thought of several places - even to Mirror Lake in the Uintahs. Making "easy" the controlling word, we went to Brighton. It turned out to be a good choice, because we both enjoyed it a lot. Early Wednesday morning, a lot of moisture fell around this part of the state. There were some reports of more than a foot of snow in the mountains. I think we got more than one half inch of rain here at Stansbury Park. That was probably true of Brighten as there was still lots of snow today - especially in shady spots. We noticed that the leaves on the trees had hardly started to turn. Hence there was a lot of green contrast with the white of the snow. Today the skies were very blue which added to the colors and contrasts. I think it not too apt to title this blog, "Indian Summer," as most of the bright colors have not even shown yet. gwh