Temple Traveling Tigger

Smithfield Utah Temple

Smithfield Utah Temple

Two Cache Valley temples now!

It was a beautiful sunny day!
A great day to meet a new temple!

This flooring was very distinctive!

Such lovely flowers!

I apologize for this corny picture.

I'm not photobombing the temple
quite so much in this one.

Sometimes it takes a bouquet.
Sometimes one simple solitary flower is enough!

Let the record show I visited the year
this temple was built!

Taylorsville Utah Temple

I was there peeking through the fence
as they started this temple.

The Taylorsville Temple looks like it will take
a long time to build!

I'm not really flying, so it is okay, right?

Do you ever do things like this?
We say things like, "I'm not really breaking a rule . . ."
Sometimes when we do that, we are justifying
things we know we really should not be doing.

Knock that off!

It must take a lot of people to build a temple this big!

I guess I'll just hang around until it is done.

And, I'm baaaaaack!
That didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would.

This is a majestic temple!
I'm so glad I got to see it come together.
It reminds me that worthwhile things take work.
And time.

It wouldn't be a temple without celestial flowers!

I bet they have flowers like this in heaven!

We should remember that lots of people worked hard to plant,
tend, water, and nurture these beautiful blooms.

Sometimes we forget to be grateful for the work
and the workers that we don't see.

I appreciate the people who keep the temple
grounds always looking so beautiful!

This temple is near the freeway.
I've been told that the temple is a wonderful
place to go to get away from the cares (and cars)
of this world, and to remember what really matters.

I've only been inside one temple,
but I love to see the stained
glass doors and windows.

This is like having my own private
meditation garden.

I can feel the spirit of the temple, even when
I'm just outside on the grounds!

I'm glad they remind us when the temples were built.
I've been to over eighty temples now, and I'm pretty
sure I would not remember all those dates.

Salt Lake City Utah Temple Renovation

I've been there watching as the Salt Lake Temple
began some much-needed renovation and restoration.

In the beginning, there was only scaffolding on
the top of the temple as they assessed the rest
of the work that was needed.

We all watched from afar as the work progressed.

I brought Angel Eeyore along to be in these
pictures. Eeyore sometimes struggles to see the
bright side of things, and he must have been
distressed to see the whole temple covered in scaffolding.

But Eeyore came to understand that changes and
repairs sometimes need to be made,
just as we sometimes erect scaffolding around
our fragile faith and retrofit our foundation so that we
have the strength to withstand the storms of life.

My blog partner, Susan, once told me a story of taking
some Primary kids to Temple Square during the
Christmas holidays to see the decorations. As they approached the downtown area of Salt Lake City, one of the boys started to cry as he saw the sign for North Temple,
one of the streets that intersects with the temple.

"That sign says there is 'NO TEMPLE!'"

It must be hard on the people of Salt Lake City to have their longest-running temple out of commission for so long,
but it will be coming back stronger and more able to face whatever challenges await!