Hi, I've been slow updating the blog.... It was sure fun seeing the family from Tucson a couple weeks ago! Thanks for making the trip. Here's Evelyn with Streeter grandparents, aunt, and uncles.

Well, all of that is kind of old news by now.... I'll just tell you about our recent visit to a "sculpture garden" called Gilgal.

It used to be the back yard of an artistic fellow, and now it is a public garden. The sculptures are all scriptural and have a sort of cryptic symbolism. The body parts strewn about in the picture below are a representation of the statue from Nebuchadnezzar's dream after the stone rolled over it.

This guy with a rock for a head is supposed to be the "captain of the Lord's hosts" who came to Joshua before he marched against Jericho. In front of the statue is a circle of 12 stones representing the 12 stones that the Israelites took from the bed of the Jordan river after it parted to let them pass through. The Israelites called their pile of stones Gilgal, and that is where the garden gets its name. The man who designed it was drawing a parallel between the Israelites' entrance into the promised land and the pioneers' entrance into the Salt Lake Valley.

The most famous statue is of a sphinx with the face of Joseph Smith. It seems like a weird combination.... We read that the sphinx represents "riddles and mystery" and that the statue is meant to suggest that the only way to find answers to life's questions is through revelation.

This piece here is inscribed with Ecclesiastes 12:7. The cryptic images that surround it make more sense if you read verses 6 and 7 of the same chapter. If you're bored, you might see if you can connect the objects with these verses.

And here are some pictures of spring flowers from the surrounding garden. Perhaps not very interesting, but I've been on a picture taking kick since getting this camera....