"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.  Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing
CLOUDS
 of glory do we come."

-William Wordsworth

 When I see clouds I am filled with the wonder and grandeur of

GOD'S creation...

I think of eternal things...

my hope and faith

E X P A N D.

We are drawn to clouds even in childhood.

Clouds inspire our imaginations

and

fill us with awe.

Pure,  seemingly soft and comforting are they.

A lovely backdrop for all of God's other creations.

I

LOVE

CLOUDS

!

(ALL PICTURES WERE TAKEN FROM MY FRONT OR BACK YARD TODAY)

A SIGN

Well, I couldn't pick "A" sign, so here are some of

These are signs of sPrInG...

and this is a sign of SprIng, too...

So is this...

but the B E S T sign of ALL  is...

!

FORK

In June of 2003

Andi and I went to Las Vegas to a Kenny Chesney concert

 with some friends of mine.

We decided on the Cheesecake Factory @ the Forum shops at Caesars Palace for lunch.

Our table was full so there wasn't much room.

I sat my purse on the floor by my foot.

We ordered our sodas, visited and giggled.  We ordered our lunch.  We visited and giggled some more.

I noticed that I didn't have a fork...

Looked on the floor - no fork.

I asked our waiter for another fork - he promptly brought me one.

We ate 'til we were about to explode.  We shopped some and, as always, we had a terrific time and got home

l-a-t-e!

The next day while rummaging in the bottom of my purse for something,
I happened to find the missing

F O R K

!

This is the culprit that jumped into my bag!

It lives in the drawer with all my other forks.

I still use it after all these years.

I suppose that I ought to take it back someday, but I really haven't been back there since!  If I ever go back I will confess - well, I'll see what happens when I get to that
fork in the road!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

I talked to God today...

EVERYDAY

...and in all things
give THANKS

in HIS name.

can you say L O U D?!

Let me make this

L O U D

and clear...

This was one hard post to do!

Tonight Haylee and I went to see

at the college campus ~ compliments of Jamie!

We were joined by Janice, Beth & Tom, and a few of Jamie's friends.

It was wonderful.

The actor who portrayed Tevye was excellent,

and in places he was VERY

L O U D !

I LOVED it and so did Haylee!

~ R E D ~

Only one thing RED in my house

is in the kitchen and it is

THE

FOCAL

POINT!



My Window Today

Today my brother Jim and I (accompanied by our photographer - my darling daughter Andi) set off an adventure.

We wandered through some antique shops (WINDOW shopping, of course) and stopped at Judd's Store for refreshment.

This store sits across the street from Woodward School where I went to 10th grade, my son Todd went to 6th grade, and my daughter Andi went to 6th grade!

After sitting at the sidewalk table in front of the windows for a while we walked across the street, wandered around the town square, marveled at the carousel horses,

and walked by the Woodward school.

From one of those three upper right hand windows I stood in my 10th grade art class

 and looked out at the back of the St. George Tabernacle.

There is still a lot of the original glass (very wavy) in it's windows.

While in that art class I did a pastel drawing of that view of the tabernacle.

I was proud of that piece of work, but have no idea what happened to it!

Well, that's my window on the world today!

Thanks for peeking in!

I'll be closing the blinds, now...

SOMETHING I WORE

I was going to tell you about my rings that I wore -

this one my niece AMY gave me when she was here for the rodeo -

...and this one was given to me for my birthday by my FAVORITE SISTER BETH -

and on my index finger is my favorite ctr ring.

Here are the tons of other rings I wear -

But alas, that is what I was going to talk about. I have a guest contributor tonight, a.k.a. my big brother JIM, who said I should blog about the

T I R E S

I

W O R E

(out, that is)!

It seems that every time I go somewhere with my little brother Lyle we have a flat tire

 and he has to buy a new one or two

or F O U R.

On our way to the reunion last summer we had one flat on his truck, put on the spare and not much further the spare went flat!  We sat by the roadside waving to people and having a great time together while waiting for Beth & Tom to bring us another tire.

Lyle ended up buying a couple of tires when we got to the next town.

Wednesday on our way to Price we stopped in Beaver to have a burger, When we came out to the Hummer to continue on our journey a young man from the tire shop asked if Lyle knew he had some pretty bad wear on his tires.

Long story short - he bought 4 new tires.

That is just what happens when he is with me.

So the Hummer is re-tired, but Lyle still drives it.

Jim on the other hand is retired and he doesn't do much but drive us all to tears with his humor.
I am so thrilled to have JIM here with me for a couple of days!
I think all this blogging has just WORN me out!

5 PM

Today at 5 pm I was in Lyle's Hummer along with Jim.  We were coming home from our cousin Mark's funeral in Price.

I got  to visit with a lot of beloved family, and the service was beautiful.

It's hard to lose a family member - that is happening at an ever increasing rate as I age.

But, traveling with two of my brothers was such a JOY!

At 

5 pm

we were hoping that we could get to the cheese factory in Beaver before it closed.

We had been told that it closed at 5pm and we were feeling sad that we would

MISS it.

Just outside of Beaver, Jim saw a billboard that said

the hours were 8am - 6pm...

YAY!  WHOOPEE!

SCORE!

A SMILE

WeLL hErE it Is

THAT SELF PORTRAIT SMUG LITTLE SMILE THAT i HAVE HAD ALL my LIFE!

My mom used to tell me, "That cRoOked, smug little smile reminds me of your grandmother Cluff!"

The way she said it made it sound not too attractive --

...and then there is this full-blown-I'm-tickled-smile...

But,

My very FAVORITE SMILES are these

OOPS!

I really meant these...

!