Harvesting Mangos

The LDS Salt Lake Temple is pretty amazing.  40 years to build, 210 feet (120 cubits) tall, 9 feet thick walls of hand hewn granite.   Care to guess the difference between these two photos?   Same wall, same night, one is backwards:

I’m guessing you’ve guessed it.   The first one is upside down, taken by looking into a reflecting pool.

This is what the Utah state capital would look like after being buried by 100 feet of ash after the Yellowstone super volcano erupts. 

And this is what a biker would look like if he stopped to watch the super volcano erupt: 

And this is what Helen would look like if we went out for a fun ski trip with Marie, one of the residents:

And this is what I would look like if I was being chased by an angry turtle on a snowmobile:

And this is what Helen would look like if I coaxed here up the trail for a sunset hike:

We enjoyed fun New Years visits from both Aya

and Noah.

  Here Helen is instructing children on how to harvest garlic:

This is Aya teaching Noah how to harvest a Mango:

And here how to harvest an mp3 file:

And here Aya is harvesting knowledge from a school book:

And here they are both harvesting Chess men:

Which Helen did not find very tasty:

We took our first trip to Park City:

where we passed on the opportunity to buy $10,000 wolf fur coats or $1,000 cowboy boots.

Finally, I also had the opportunity to eat two exotic foods.   The first was this boxelder bug, who is wintering with his clan in our house: 

The second was this hand crafted cinnamon sugar snowball:

I decided to save the bug as a treat for our next visitor.   Anyone up for a visit?

Bruce