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Due to lots of work late today, not so much a smorgasbord today, but nonetheless, some great pictures and an introduction to somewhere most of us have never been!
Take it away, maurinsky…..
Today, pictures from valued commenter maurinsky.
I traveled to Salt Lake City for a work conference – I didn’t have a lot of downtime, but I did go to Temple Square and saw the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Temple Orchestra perform (among other pieces, they sang the whitest version of Down By The Riverside that has ever been performed. I’m pretty sure I lost 10% of my unevenly distributed melanin just listening to it), as well as attend a daily organ recital in the Tabernacle. (I like organ music, what can I say).
Temple Square
Salt Lake City, UT
This is a meeting house, I believe.
More Temple Square
Salt Lake City, UT
This shows a little bit of the world outside of Temple Square
Here in the DC area, there’s the Mormon Temple, and many Mormons think it the most beautiful building on Earth. In ~1990, someone spray-painted “Surrender, Dorothy!” on an overpass so that you saw it as a sub-title below the temple upon coming around the bend of the outer loop of the Beltway. It was, and remains, surreal.
Murphy’s
Salt Lake City, UT
This looks like a fun place.
Polygamy
Hotel Monaco, Salt Lake City, UT
This was a work event. I approached the bartender and said “I’d like to try Polygamy”, and he gave me 2 free drink coupons because I made him laugh.
(This was a nice porter, simple and easy, which is not what one expects from polygamy)
Bonus pic 1
Manchester, CT
My spectacular dahlia in bloom – a colleague gave me a bunch of dahlia bulbs, and all of them bloomed with a bunch of beautiful, deep red, small dahlias…but this one plant opened up with these spectacular, enormous and vividly pink flowers.
Wowzers, I’m a sucker for a gorgeous flower! Thank you so very, very much!
Bonus pic 2
Skokie, IL
These lively faces belong to my granddaughters, Fionnuala and Ceilidh, who are a year old in this pic.
I love the names, and the picture I love more – thanks for the smile!
Thank you so much maurinsky, do send us more when you can.
Have a great weekend, everyone. Fall is quickly coming, so enjoy one of the last weekends before the season’s change becomes unignorable.
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?BillinGlendaleCA
Hmmm, I just scanned some pics that we took in Salt Lake City. A few of Temple Square and the State Capitol up on the hill.
cosima
Adorable grandbabies! My dad is a twin, and I have twin sisters, but remain astonished that people survive having multiple babies at once. My single babies about did me in…
Interesting photos of SLC. Do they have those elaborate meeting places (buildings) all over the city?
raven
Nice pics.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Loved the description on the Polygamy Porter (although I’ve decided that porters are not for me – they hit my gut like a brick).
Can’t imagine anything easy about polygamy.
Quinerly
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OzarkHillbilly
By the look of their smiles, those 2 are pure trouble.
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Sarah Woodling: [whispering] Jacob. We need every penny, Jacob. And I can’t bear another day of those martyred looks. There. There it is again!
Elizabeth: This isn’t a martyred look, Sarah. This look is puuuure – hatred.
Jacob Woodling: Quiet! Brigham Young has twenty seven wives and he hasn’t had half the trouble with them that I’ve had with the two of you!
Elizabeth: Then simplify your life, Jacob. Sell me.
Jacob Woodling: But Elizabeth: you don’t know what you’ll get.
Elizabeth: I know what I’ve had.
JPL
Lovely photos, and the granddaughters smile is contagious.
HeleninEire
Gorgeous Babbies!!!!
rikyrah
Thanks for the pictures. The grandbabies look absolutely adorable ??
Wag
Excellent photos! I especially like the dahlia.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
Polygamy is its own punishment…
maurinsky
The babies are delightful, just like their mother was when she was a baby!
I only got to experience the small corner of SLC around the Salt Palace Convention Center. There was a larger homeless population than I expected, and you can get in trouble for giving money to panhandlers there.
That dahlia plant gives me such joy!
Mustang Bobby
Checking in to report that I made it through the hurricane with no damage to my house, although the storm surge apparently ventured into my front yard. I blogged about it yesterday.
I’m without landline phone, internet, or cable at home but got power back on Wednesday noon. As I note in the post; I had it easy compared to my friends in the Keys and on the west coast.
I hope everyone else who went through it is doing well or getting better.
MomSense
Really nice photos especially those girls with their beautiful smiles. Congratulations.
MomSense
@Mustang Bobby:
Glad you came through the storm ok. I’m so sorry about your friends in the Keys. I can’t imagine how devastating their losses are.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: Good to hear.
Waratah
@maurinsky: Our children enjoyed the zoo and the salt lake. We had a camping trailer and stayed overnight in a cherry orchard.
satby
@maurinsky: beautiful pictures maurinsky, and gorgeous grandbabies! Of course, I love the Gaelic names, especially since ceilidh dancing was a thing we did when we were younger.
But then, I named my youngest son Padhraic.
satby
@Mustang Bobby: good to hear that your house came through ok! Seeing how Miami flooded, I was concerned your place would too.
TaMara (HFG)
maurinsky – thanks for the giggle this a.m. and those granddaughters are just squeeee worthy!
WaterGirl
@Mustang Bobby:
I read your blog but I didn’t see any further information about this. ??
So glad you are safe! I should have led with that!
WaterGirl
@maurinsky: I caught the Dahlia bug 3 years ago and then wondered where they had been all my life. I love your photo – just gorgeous! All of mine are in the pink family.
Babies are adorable!
Cheryl from Maryland
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: My husband and I had Polygamy at the brewery in Park City. We liked it (we had the Polygamy Nitro), but also the slogan: The beer to have when you are having more than one. He liked it so much he got the official T-shirt.
maurinsky
@Cheryl from Maryland:
My BIL (a chef) has that t-shirt, too!