knew it then and know it now....................

I suppose both pictures could have the subtitle, "memory". They both bring memories back. The least important memory in the picture if of the books of course but some thoughts about them have application to my thoughts today. If you were to look at my assortment of books more completely you would find far more that can be seen in this picture. My office today has three solid walls of books. I have read them all and have re read many of them. I remember what is in most of them eventually but it takes some work to bring back the memories in many cases. Often you read of a old man with a lot of books fondly recalling how important the books were in his life but admitting that he hardly can really recall what was in them. Perhaps that is not to be avoided. Hopefully memories lost will come back someday "restored". I believe that they will. Hopefully the people you care about throughout your life will never take any work to bring back real memories of them and more important hopefully those you cared about "knew it then and know it now".

Friday - blue

Yesterday's late afternoon walk was one where I took this picture with my camera phone. This mornings walk was also perfect weather. The lone "blue" flower just alone in the middle of the brown ground cover and thorns and weeds always catch my attention. I also find blue in nature to be somewhat of a surprise. Of course it is a pleasant surprise. The question could be ..................

"What in nature is naturally blue?"

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Water comes to mind, but water is not blue, even though it may look blue, it is just a reflection of the sky. The sky would seem obvious especially if your in New Mexico but it is not actually blue. Apparently it is just a "refraction of light" entering the atmosphere (Or something along those lines) I guess that leaves some plants, flowers, some animals eg. exotic frogs fish and certain stones. Wonder why moods are sometimes called blue?

31

I have been working on a life story for a long time. I have as the first picture this one and the first line is below. It goes through this year and is something I have written a little bit at a time for a long time. Hope it works out ok.

"I am 31 years old and have been married for 11 years. I may seem like an odd time to start a journal since a lot has already happened in our lives but I just don’t want to continue to not make note of them."

Saturday

This picture is not "blog worthy", nor is it worthy of much. Even so it is a somewhat accurate in recording Saturdays walk, this week. Long pants, a coat and a hat for the first time in months were needed. After I got home and by noon it was sunny so it was too bad. The picture was shot with my camera phone. Now the blog was done a week ago and since then I have come back and made the picture look a little better. This of course is something that no one will see or not the difference. If you do a comment would be in order.............................................................

Chile Farms.......................

Wondering what to put on the blog today and for that matter this time of year. This picture is a little late for the blog really. It is a field of Green Chile in Southern New Mexico. Probably near "Hatch" New Mexico. Right now the harvest is over. The last of the harvest came in a couple of weeks ago. It starts out mid summer and goes into October. The later the harvest the more red you see in the Chile. New Mexico's green chile's are unique. I suppose some might think that they are the same as Anaheim Green Peppers but the New Mexico product is just different. It turns into Green or Red Chile and it goes on a lot of things you might not expect. Course it is great on hamburgers. Looking at this field sort of reminds me of a field of potatoes, or corn or even beets. Having both red and green chile on your stuff is having it Christmas style. Some like red and others green. Some say that one is hotter than the other and it sort of depends on how that "lot" was processed. Heat is often added and not just in the chile right out of the ground. I like red better as it is a little smoother or it just tastes better hot. I do like "hot" and find my tolance for a hot product to be pretty high. Spent some time in those fields, once upon a time.

Favorite Picture

One of my favorite pictures. It has three of my favorite people in it all looking at me. The young man that has a nice head of hair, course Jeff's got a nice head of hair compared to me, and standing on my left is my favorite grandson. His birthday was yesterday. He is a very smart guy. He thinks a lot about things and has some good insight into a lot of things. I enjoy being with him. (Riley too).

Happy birthday a day late. Course if you can have birthday dinners and events early it is never too late to post a good picture to add to the event.

Found one

Had it not been for the ward building where the painting "Not Alone" covered the entire front wall and where I attended church from the age of about 6 to about 14 I could have grown up in Pocatello and never heard of Minerva Teichert.

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So why put this on my blog today? Well yesterday I visited the LDS Church office building at the south end of the valley. I went to the room on family search and found a large Minerva Teichert painting on the wall. Not the whole wall but pretty big so it was interesting to see the painting in a larger size.

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Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert was born in Ogden, Utah in 1888. Later her family moved close to Pocatello Idaho where she grew up and graduated from Pocatello High School She did leave home at 14 years old and worked as a nursemaid for a family in San Francisco where for the first time she saw museum art and attended some classes at Mark Hopkins Art School. She later returned and graduated from High School. At age 19 she scraped together enough money to go to Chicago where she studied at the Chicago Art Institute. Later she went to New York to study but eventually came back to marry Herman Teichert a cowboy and strong church member. She painted a "Book of Mormon" series, covers of LDS magazines, lesson manuals, the World Room in the Manti LDS Temple, and has paintings displayed at the Museum of History and Art in Salt Lake City and was exhibited in the Immigrant Receiving Station of Ellis Island. Referred to as a Feminist she made an impact with her art. She died in 1976.

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One of her best known works is the image of Mary Fielding Smith with her son Joseph F. Smith crossing the plains with their ox cart. To the right of the image is the spiritual guardians that protected them on their journey to Zion, hence the title "Not Alone". The painting was dated 1847 to represent the time of migration. This shows Teichert at her best as she portrays the tremendous faith and courage of the pioneer women.

The Pipeline Trail, again, this week

This trail starts at the road as you go up Millcreek Canyon. The trail goes to the North of the Canyon up between where two mountains come together. The canyon itself runs East and West. Going up the trail takes us to the top of the mountains almost. As I go up this first part of the trail often referred to as rattlesnake gulch I climb to the Pipeline trail. The pipeline is really where an old pipeline was laid to run water from way back in the canyon down to the city. Looking back towards the floor of the canyon in pictures here shows how steep this is.

A big rock where the trail turns and loops back up the side of the hill.

Looking back from the trail to the other side, South Side, of the canyon. Down towards the canyon floor. Almost to the top of the South side

Almost to the top of the Gulch Trail and almost to the Pipeline trail which will follow along the top going East and West following into the canyon.

Looking West from the top towards the Salt Lake Valley below.




Looking down just leaving the gulch trail to go on the Pipeline trail and looking down into the gulch seeing how the trail wound from one side of the gulch to the other.

Just about to step out to the canyon wall from the gulch.

Looking back West to the Valley off beyond. Near the top. Now just another 4 miles or so to where the trail comes down closer to the road and where I can then use the road below to run back to the car. The trail would be about 10 miles or more to the top and one could then to over the top of the mountains and down towards Park City which would be about a 28 + mile total run. I have blogged about this trail a few times before. It has always been one of my most favorite runs.