Ogden and More

Friday afternoon, 15 August, we drove to Ogden for the temple open house. What was formerly the twin of the Provo Temple, has been completely rebuilt in hopes of helping with the downtown revitalization of Ogden and to make it more of a wedding destination for young faithful. That will probably work. Overall it is nice, but, apart from the murals in the baptistry and a few original landscapes scattered here and there, the art reproductions are horrible, and as Daniel noted, distracting. The other low point for me were the lanterns in the entrance to the Celestial Room which were also an unwanted distraction. 

We then headed north to Brigham City for dinner at Maddox. While we waited for our reservation, we visited the beautiful Box Elder Tabernace, and the grounds of the Brigham City Temple. That temple design was a missed opportunity. It is made of precast stone, but all the landscaping walls are made of beautiful native stone. It would have been wonderful to build the temple out of that material.

Back in Provo we dropped by to bid a fond (and sad/happy) goodbye to Madeline who is on her way to Logan to attend Utah State University. She is a pistol and will land on her feet, but we will miss her.

 Dress for the occasion was specified as "modest" and I won't dress
up unless I have to -- so there

Baptistry with fine murals of local landscapes

Celestial Room with lanterns

 Mount Ogden in the distance

 A dramatic change from the 1970s original

 Box Elder Tabernacle

 A volunteer missionary gave us a quickish tour

 Brigham City Temple

 The Colvers in the temple forecourt

 Tabernacle view from the temple

 Dinner at Maddox

 Good food

 Emotional farewell

 We wish this girl the best

Katy and Daniel also stopped by to say farewell

We are creeping up on our Tuesday departure for London. There will probably be one more post before then.

That's all for now.

OXO

D.