Glory Days

Sundance

Alpine Loop

Aspens and Timp

Morning Run - Emigration Canyon

City Creek 

In Their Glory

Lately, I have been making it a priority to savor the fabulous weather and scenery.  

Unfortunately, I got hit by a cold last week and was feeling like just staying home.
 Rather than sit on the couch, or lie in bed,

I decided to drive the Alpine Loop before the leaves were gone.

  It was a wonderful day.
 I rode the lift at Sundance and remembered many happy times - 

Skiing during college, First Date, Sunday Brunch,
Celebrating Jessica and Stewart's Birthdays,
Entertaining various daughters' boyfriends,
Checking in with our BYU students: Holly, Melissa, and David,

Sitting next to Robert Redford while he entertained his table with animal calls, 

Seeing Melissa after she cut her hair,
Holly and Matt's Engagement,

 The Utah Symphony, 

Hiking Timpanogas with Camille.  

I will always have a special place in my heart for these magnificent mountains.  

They are one of the most beautiful places on earth.

  This week I have loved running Emigration Canyon with Anne E. and walking City Creek with the Hardy's.  These truly have been "Glory Days"! 

Best of all he loved the Fall

The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods

Leaves floating on the trout streams

And above the hills 

The high, blue, windless skies.

Now he will be a part of them forever.

                  Ernest Hemingway          

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

              Robert Frost

1993

Visiting - Crafting - Creating

This morning I was lucky to visit the sweet, happy little Brinton's at their beautiful casa.  They are all decked out for Halloween!

Later, Jessica, Lucy and Anne came to my house for a little crafting.  Lately, I haven't been into crafts, but it's fun to get together and satisfying to "create."  Jessica did most of the work with a little help from Lucy.  Anne added the boa and the result is so much fun. 


I'm grateful for the people who make my world a wonderful place.





You can design and create and build
the most wonderful place in the world -
But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

Sunday Supper

Menu

Fresh Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Appetizer

Pork Tenderloin Dinner

Jeanne's Orange Rolls

Roasted Butternut Squash

Autumn Salad

Fruit

Bavarian Apple Tart

Special Guests:  David and roommates (just for appetizers),

 Uncle Bill, Mom and Dad, Menlove Family, Hardy Family

Pork Tenderloin Dinner

2 (1-pound) pork tenderloins

1 cup butter

1 pound fresh mushrooms

2 onions sliced

4 chicken bouillon cubes

2 cups water

1/4 cup flour

In a skillet, brown the pork on all sides in the butter and remove to a baking dish.

Saute the mushrooms and onions in the drippings in the skillet.

Dissolve the bouillon cubes in the water in a bowl.  Blend

 in the flour.  Add to the skillet.  Cook until thickened, stirring constantly.  Pour over the pork.

Bake, covered, at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.

Serves Eight to Ten

Cut the pork into thin slices and serve over Uncle Ben's rice with the cooking juices. 

Always in Season, Salt Lake City Junior League (modified)

Oh Delicious Autumn!

Oh Delicious Autumn!

My very soul is wedded to it,

and if I were a bird

I would fly about the earth 

Seeking the successive Autumns.

George Eliot - Middlemarch

I love autumn and was not ready to see snow in the mountains this week.  Frost hasn't come to my garden yet - we are still enjoying tomatoes, basil, corn, concord grapes and apples.  Nights are cool and crisp and cozy.  I love the garden now, the heat is gone; roses are blooming one last time.  It's almost time to plant bulbs and put the garden to bed for the winter - but for now - I savor.


Red Apple - Black Grape Salad
(My Autumn Favorite)
1 pomegranate, seeded (optional)
Concord or Black Grapes
1 red onion, thinly sliced rings
12 cup crumbled blue cheese
4 apples (pears are also good)
Zest of 2 oranges
Red Leaf Lettuce and/or Spinach


Dressing:  
3/4 cup balsamic vinegar
12 cup olive oil
6 Tablespoons brown sugar
Salt and Pepper to taste
In a small saucepan, blend dressing ingredients, stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.

Sugared Pecans
2 cups pecan halves
1/4 cup brown sugar,
1/4 cup melted butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Preheat oven to 350.  Line cookie sheet with parchment.  Mix all ingredients and spread on pan in one layer.  Bake 10 minutes until lightly toasted.  Cool.


Toss, lettuce, dressing, apples, grapes, cheese, onion, and pecans with dressing.  Top with orange zest.   

Something Wonderful

Steve Jobs    1955-2011

The Three Apples
that changed the World:
The one Eve ate,
The one that fell on Newton's head,
and the one Steve Job's built.
I find it interesting that "The Three Apples" all produced unparalled knowledge.

These are a few of  my favorite Steve Jobs' quotes.
 Read more on my August 25 post, "A True Outlier".   

"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."  It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:  "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?"  And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something . "

"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it.  And that is as it should be because death is likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent.  It clears out the old to make way for the new.  Right now the new is you. 

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

 "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.  Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.  Going to bed at night and saying we've done something wonderful, that is what matters."


He truly created "Something Wonderful".
 Thank you, Steve Jobs, I'll always be a fan.
God Bless.

Entertaining Angels

Last weekend we were fortunate to host several house guests.  We welcomed Santiago (James), Caroline and Henry who filled our home once again with the pitter-patter of little feet.  We loved snuggling on the couch in the morning, reading stories, golf cart rides,  hunting for foxes and golf balls, pumpkin picking and scootering through the neighborhood.

We also enjoyed the company of David's friend, Don Corvese, visiting from Rhode Island. Eight years ago, Don welcomed missionaries into his home and  embraced the gospel because of the hope it gave him that families can be together forever.  Don now dedicates his time to missionary work in his area and is every missionary's best friend. This is the first time Don has visited Utah;  he loved our mountains and conference.

 We are grateful for the opportunity David had to serve in Rhode Island and Connecticut and for the wonderful people who opened their doors and hearts and listened to his message - Jesus Christ lives and has restored His gospel upon the earth.

I love this scripture:
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
                                                                                                                                     Hebrews 13:2