This and That

A few miscellaneous observations, none big enough to write a whole blog about

I think they're serious about not parking in front of the garage door,

A lady I visited with in the temple told me she lives in this house. It's on the road between Nauvoo and Keokuk or Quincy, so we see it a few times a week. We'd noticed how nice it looked, but never thought we'd meet the owner. We call it the Eagle House.

And speaking of eagles, the eaglets are growing up and are now scruffy-looking teenagers

We have a big beautiful bush in front of our bedroom window. The blossoms survived last week's storms, but not the ensuing weather. However, other flowers are growing in the bed around it now, as well as other flowers around Nauvoo.

      Spring flowers in Nauvoo

^This is how we get our mail. but there are a few problems for the mail room people as evidenced by this sign:

There's a Catholic church and school near the temple. One side of the school backs on a forested area and there's a little path with lots of little houses displaying parts of Christ's life.

Our apartment building recently got new wooden shingles. It was noisy! Especially when they were pulling off the old shingles.

In Burlington there's a one-way street called Snake Alley, reminiscent of Lombard Street in San Francisco. The curves are tighter so it's not quite as long. The cobblestones would make it challenging to skateboard down though.

Cars at the top and bottom

One of our favorite scenes, across the street from the this favorite scene

There's always lots to see and do around Nauvoo!