is this a big weed...

or what?

I suggested that we cut it up for firewood...

(Hmm, maybe we've let the yard get just a tad out of hand...)

Shoshone Falls

A beautiful place I'd never been was Shoshone Falls, near Twin Falls, Idaho.  Notice the double rainbow:

 

Here's an old photo of how the falls looked when they were first discovered, in the 1800s:

 

 Our Happy Crew

Geronimo!

On our way home from Aberdeen, we stopped in Twin Falls at the bridge over the Snake River.  As luck would have it, while we were there, two men came to jump off the bridge:

The river is really beautiful, and the view is spectacular:

Nelson, Aaron, Heather, and David were brave enough to walk out on the bridge:

(See those itty-bitty people?  That's them.)

David and Heather met I. B. Perrine, the main founder of Twin Falls.

Here's our happy crew:

The Nat!

While in Idaho, getting Aaron from school and visiting with my Dad, we went to Indian Springs, which we used to call "The Nat."  It looks just like it used to when I was a kid!  Great fun.  Don't you love the multi-colored doors on the changing rooms?

It was a great day for swimming.

Even my Dad got in the pool:

There's this great barrel in the middle that you can go over:

 

 What a great time we had!

hope is for us

The other day I was thinking about that great trilogy of Faith, Hope, and Charity. And while they are very intertwined, so that you can't really have any of these qualities without having the others, it occurred to me that they are each focused on someone different. 

Faith is for God:  Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the first principle of the Gospel. Faith in our Heavenly Father.  "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart..."

Charity is for our fellowman:  Charity for our family, our friends, our neighbors.  "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

But what about Hope?  Then it came to me:  Hope is for us.  Because of Christ, I can hope for my heart's righteous desires.  I can hope for good things now and in the future.  "[Have] a perfect brightness of hope."


Somehow, that makes me smile. 

Hope is for us. 

flowering almond, symbol of hope