Gummy Bear Experiment

Water, pineapple juice, salt water, nothing

The idea was to put red gummy bears in a fluid and then see what happened to them after 24 hours. 

The "nothing" gummy bear is actually orange because the other reds were eaten.

My children did this. 

 

Falling Snow

Yesterday

This morning

Tulip Tree Update

These pictures were taken by my teenage daughter weeks ago. I just now uploaded them.

It's been an extraordinarily powerful time of life for me. The happy moments have raged as strongly as the storms.

I now have an Instagram account with nothing on it. I need to learn how to use it. Then it might take the place of this blog. We'll see.

Fall

Salt Lake Temple Visit

 Just as we were leaving the cafeteria, we saw Dad Babcock. He was working (subbing) and on his lunch break, so we didn't get to talk for long. It was a pleasure to see him.

The Conference Center parking was more crowded than usual. We'd parked clear by the north elevators. After the session, we walked through Temple Square to avoid traffic. I don't remember seeing grass around the flower beds in the past. I wonder when they made that change. I'm guessing it's a less expensive alternative to filling them with flowers and it probably keeps the bees away from people who sit on the walls.

We usually prefer not to go downtown for our temple visits, but I'm glad we went today.

Little Cottonwood Plus

 

Ivy Steps

Mini Heirlooms

 These are the size of ordinary cherry or grape tomatoes. 

I'd never seen the green type before today, so I bought them. 

They look like watermelon gumballs. 

They are firm and a little less sweet in flavor than the yellow ones.

That's one cut open in the picture below.

Wild Cake

I made two cakes: one to give away and one to keep. 

The first cake was a birthday cake. I put small flowers all over it, used one color of sprinkle per flower, and wrote "Happy Birthday!" in the middle. 

On the second cake, I used up the left over frosting with one big flower and filled the petals with leftover sprinkles with no concern of precision or singularity of color. 

If it was my birthday, I'd want the second cake.

 

Hungry at Thanksgiving Point

Party Ready

Bird Show

Peregrine Falcon

Hiking Today

Monk's hood

Silver Lake

Silver Lake

Twin Lakes

Holiday and Holy Day

  

Enjoying UT Summer

Puzzling

This took us four hours today.

Puzzles are fun and time consuming.

Land of the Free

Clear Lake, WA

Boise, ID

Goodbye OR Coast

At Three Capes in OR

Cape Kiwanda

Mushroom that looks
like an upside down skull.

Cape Lookout

Cape Meares