flowers - Shelley Beatty

Temple Square and the beautiful springtime tulips!!! Glorious!!!

June 20, 2013 by shelley

The Salt Lake Temple is surrounded by spring blooms.

Temple Square in the springtime! No words can describe the beauty of temple square and it’s glorious landscaping and colorful flowers. But it took my breath away with all the blooming flowers; tulips, daffodils, and crocus’. I was absolutely mesmerized by some of the tulips and daffodils…they had 5-6 blooms on one stem. Each stem was like a bouquet of tulips or daffodils…gorgeous!!! Say no more a picture is worth a thousand words…

: Springtime glory blooms around the Salt Lake City Temple!

We also visited the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, near the Salt Lake temple.

Reception room Joseph Smith Memorial Building

Magnificent Centerpiece Joseph Smith Memorial Building

Chandelier in Joseph Smith Building

Magnificent Centerpiece Joseph Smith Memorial Building

and a few pictures of the Salt Lake Temple…

Salt Lake City Temple

Easter!

April 4, 2013 by shelley

Easter came early this year, the last Sunday in March. And to think it was just a week ago we were shoveling almost a foot of snow. Spring is much later this year and I was not able to use any flowers from my yard, the forsythia has not even bloomed yet. But I still had my Easter flower centerpiece on the table.

Easter table is set with deseret rose place settings, accented with a green charger, pink handled fiesta ware flatware.

Flower centerpiece.

Each place has its own carrot cake in a flower pot, and new this year a yellow chocolate duck.

The traditional carrot cake flower pot with real flower and peep bunny.

Easter place setting.

Easter Dinner place setting with carrot cake flower pot and chocolate duck.

Easter Buffet Dinner

Ham, turkey, potatoes and green beans are all kept warm in beautiful copper chaffing dishes.

Stollen, bunny bread (both from Great Harvest Bread) and fresh made rolls are part of our Easter dinner.

Even though the Bunny Bread from Great Harvest Bread is delicious, no one can bring themselves to take a knife and slice into the bunny.

Carrot Cake, and carrot candy and carrot cake baked in a flower pot are also part of the dessert buffet.

Another tradition is chick cupcakes.

Brightly colored chick lemon flavored cupcakes and peep bunnies on a stick are just a part of our Easter dinner dessert.

A whole clutch of chick cupcakes, in lemon, have become a traditional part of Easter dinner.

Peeps on a stick!

Bunny peeps on a stick.

My sister, husband and kids; Zain, Aalia, and Nial came to Easter dinner along with our friend Charles.

Happy Easter!

Education Week at Brigham Young University…

August 31, 2012 by shelley

We attended Education Week at Brigham Young University. We love it and have attended for years. This year was the 90th year of Education Week.
It was held August 13 to 17 in Provo, Utah, and featured more than 1,000 classes presented by BYU faculty members, seminary and institute instructors, and other professionals. Class subjects included education, family relations, genealogy, health, history, marriage, religion, and science

This year’s theme, taken from Proverbs 29:18, is, “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”

As we drove toward Provo, we could see smoke from all the wildfires that have burned this year.

I have always loved the Brigham Young University Campus because it is so beautiful, the grounds are impeccable and the flowers incredible. But the backdrop of the mountains is something beyond description.

Flowers on the campus of BYU.

Beautiful flowers on BYU campus.

BYU campus.

BYU campus sits at the base of beautiful mountains, making it one of the most scenic college campus’ around!

BYU Campus at the base of the mountains.

Palo Alto Mall

May 20, 2012 by shelley

The Palo Alto Mall is a fun place to spend some time. From the great stores (Nordstrom, Apple, Sony, Brooks Brothers and many many more) to the restaurants (Mac’s Opera House and the new one we tried Yucca de Lac) to the gorgeous flowers. And not to forget the perfect weather it is a great way to spend some time together!

Flowers in November

November 25, 2011 by shelley

It was November, the Palo Alto Mall had its Christmas tree up, but I really enjoyed the dahlia’s blooming around the mall. One was larger than Bob’s head. Baby Jack was born at the Stanford Hospital and we would walk across the street to the mall and get food. We visited Max’s Opera Cafe several times during our sojourn.

Dahlias Palo Alto Mall November 2011.

Dahlia larger than Bob's head, Palo Alto Mall, California 2011.