Scattered thoughts

 This a good dog, watching the passers-by in the back

of a pickup truck on the streets of Nauvoo.

She is content to just watch the tourists.

Isn't this a great little log house.  Built for a museum

but not occupied yet.  It looks so charming I told

Patty we should buy it and move here.  She said okay.

 It comes with a new - not used out-house.

I think this will work just fine.

This town of Nauvoo has no shortage of flowers.

These Peonies are all over the 'flats', and also they

are in many other places.  The rain is very hard on them as

they get full of water and lean over like these.

But - they are such a beautiful flower. 

This picture of the Lucy Mack Smith Home was taken

this afternoon.  The bikes in front are from a local Bed and

Breakfast.  I thought it was an interesting picture.

New Subject

Patty and I were guides for a wedding in the temple this morning.  As we waited for them to show up at the appointed time - the front door to the temple opens and in walks this beautiful woman, dressed so respectively.  Behind her is a very handsome man - dressed in Navy Officer Whites. 

He is a Lt. Commander in the Navy. 

Both of them are here in Nauvoo for their wedding day. 

She is 35 and he is 43.  They both are having their first wedding, yes at that age, first wedding. 

She was from SLC and he was from San Diego CA.

What a treat it was for us to be their guides today. 

Kind of cute how they enter on the first floor, then up to the second floor for clothing, then to the third floor for the veil ceremony, then to the fifth floor for the sealing, then back to the second floor to get dressed in street clothes, then down to the first floor to exit.  All on the grand circular stairway.  First floor to the Second floor is 31-steps alone.  That's a lot of steps counting five floors.

It was such a special day for all.  She was very emotional and actually - so was he.  There they stood as a model or symbol of what this church stands for.  True and virtue dressed in white.  Both of them.

Thank you Lord for letting us be here to witness this today.