09 to 13 December 2021 - Youth Bands
Above: Park City, UT High School Jazz Band. Eccles Center. 09 December 2021.
Fabulous performance. Fabulous high school jazz program. Squint and its Duke Ellington. If many kids are off track today, these kids are not. Joined with The Monk, Flute, Bow Tie, and Mary Ann to attend the concert.
Grainery Museum. Beehive Exhibition. Ephraim, UT. 10 December 2021.
Museum is the product of Utah artist Amy Jorgensen's love for art and for her native Sanpete County. The museum has been recognized by USA Today as one of the top small-town museums... a must stop... in the United States. Utah's City Weekly newspaper named The Grainery Museum as Best Museum in its 2021 Best of Utah edition. City Weekly, by the way, does a great service in highlighting unusual, sometimes off beat, Utah places and events. John Saltas, City Weekly editor, has been a speaker at Park City ROMEO group, La Societe Deux Magots, where I am a regular.
Above: Horne School of Music Symphony Orchestra and chorus. Snow College, Ephraim, UT.
Fabulous performance. In marked positive contrast to much of the nihilism coming from the American college campus today. These kids were good, well trained... they executed beautifully. Seeing the happy looks on their faces as they stood for applause was priceless... uplifting... In a state of justifiably perceived decline of American civilization today, these kids played a hopeful chord. Kudos to Snow College.
Above. Ivins, UT. 11 December 2021.
The morning breaks, the shadows flee.
Above: Ivins, UT. 11 December 2021.
Two Geezer Movers. TIMDT's Ivins project proceeds apace.
Above: Ivins, UT. 11 December 2021.
Dusk.
Above: Dawn illumination. Santa Clara, UT. 12 December 2021.
Someone went to a lot of trouble to decorate this tree!
Above: Ivins, UT. 12 December 2021.
AM Constitutional... TIMDT and Freddie.
Above: Road Runner. Ivins, UT. 12 December 2021.
Rare sighting of rare bird on AM constitutional.
Above: Magelby's Restaurant, Springville, UT. 13 December 2021.
New discovery. Marvelous fish bowl setting on Main Street. Standard American salad/soup/sandwich and entree food fare well executed. Deplorable food (which term I use as an extreme complement to the restaurant).
Above: TIMDT at Magleby's Restaurant, Springville, UT. 13 December 2021.
Above: 1861 Oak Lane, Provo, UT. 13 December 2021.
Prior to 1967 this address did not exist... it was open scrub on the foothills of the Wasatch Range overlooking Utah Lake, in Utah County. Dad was a shareholder in Bonneville Development, a company set up to develop the surrounding hill side for residential use. Mom and Dad, dreaming of the proverbial house on the hill, purchased the lot on which the pictured home sits and built a three-bedroom, ranch style house in 1967. I lived in that house, and completed college at BYU, during 1968 and 1969, after returning from my LDS mission in France, 1965 to 1968. After Mom died in 2010, the house she and Dad built, and in which I had lived, and in later years frequently visited my parents, was sold. The buyer let the house run down. In 2017 Mom and Dad's house was razed and a new home (pictured here) was built.
As I looked at the very nice replacement home shown here, I was overcome by a wistfulness as I confronted the reality of my transitory existence on earth. I had had so many good experiences in Mom and Dad's Oak Hills home... yet, before me, at this moment that home was gone... like I, at some point, I guess, I will be gone. In a way, part of my life was effaced when Mom and Dad's house was razed. Oak Lane. A preview of the end?
Interestingly, Mom's favorite home during my growing up years was not Oak Lane. It was 47 North 500 East in Provo, UT, the home Mom and Dad occupied before moving to Oak Lane. The home, a painted white brick, Dutch-modern design edifice, was built in the late 19th Century. It is still occupied as a primary residence today. At least, via that long standing residence, my early Provo life has validation, even if the Oak Hills segment has been erased.