Irma sounds like she is a real wingding. Hope all the hurricanes stay on the Atlantic side and don't venture over here to the Pacific side, especially the ones like Irma. The weather here has been pretty good for the last little while with September bringing a little less rain so far this month. That can change in a day.
Not much going on in this part of the world. People are coming and going as is usually for BYU-H and the PCC. Doug Lyons who was head of finances for the PCC left last week. As is usual a big celebration was held with all the trimmings. (Great food, lots of it, and wonderful going away gifts). That is Doug with the head dress on. Someone found out he had a little native American in him. The table shows the beginning of the gifts. He has been here quite a few years and made many friends.
The called him the Lyon in Zion and created this picture for him. It is an original and notice the prints that are going through the mane. It is absolutely gorgeous. There are some real artists among this group of people. They can dance, sing, carve, paint and many other artistic talents. I have some pictures that my bishop, Bishop Mahoney did that are just beautiful.
I love to go to the beach after work, read, and listen to the waves crash against the rocks. It is very soothing and relaxing after a hard days work. As I was watching the waves, along came this couple and I just had to take a picture of them. I saw them point up the beach and heard them say that they were married on the beach a little ways from here. It was a very nice scene. I should have told them how to make that marriage last for eternity 😇
Polly and I both had Labor Day off so it was time for another trek. We decided to head for the Buddhist temple for a look around. We were really surprised at the cemetery that surrounded it. It was a very beautiful and serene place. We saw a place where people had their ashes placed. Many of them had Families are Forever and other such sayings that were very LDS sounding.
This was a mausoleum but I thought the mountains were especially beautiful behind the cemetery.We then entered what seemed to be a Japanese part of the cemetery.
I also thought this one was very beautiful.
We then took a side road that looked like it didn't go anywhere and it opened up to a whole bowl like valley and a very new part of the cemetery.
This was a small house that enclosed a very big bell. It had a log on the left and you would swing the log and it would hit the bell. The sound produced was a very soothing gong. Here is the temple.
and of course Buddha!
The gardens and ponds surrounding the temple were also very beautiful, although seeing so many fish looking up at me kind of gave me the creeps and this was only a very small portion. It said that these koi could live up to 80 years old.
Here are a couple of flowers that I have never noticed before.
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One day I will figure out the names of all these plants and add them.
