Red yucca is apparently a landscaping staple around here. It’s everywhere! These ones are at the park just by our house.
Some people keep the flowers trimmed back, but more often than not they stretch long and graceful toward the sky.
Just when I think something is done blooming around here and everything has gone to seed, it starts up with another round of bright colors.
Oh, desert plants. You’ll never stop surprising me.
I work with the 16- and 17-year-old young women at church. On Wednesday this week we went to the nearby family history library and learned how to digitize old records, such census reports or death certificates. It was kind of awesome! Of course it was super awkward when someone’s race was listed as “colored”–way to be classy, 1919 Virginia–and sad to see records for mothers who had died in childbirth, but it was also quite fascinating.
We also looked at our family trees. I started tracing mine way way waaaay back and found some great stuff. Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish royalty. Some king known as “The Wicked”. One line went back into the BCs to the King of the Trojans. As in they of the giant wooden horse. No big deal.
(BIG DEAL! SO COOL! *insert much geeking out here*)
Anyway, my only link today is to Family Search. You can sign up for free so you can help with indexing or just play around in your own family tree. And, for you Mormon folks, you can prepare family names to take to the temple, which is the next thing on my list. It’s surprisingly fun and really easy to figure out.
I hope you all have a beautiful weekend!
All photos taken and edited on my iPhone with the VSCOcam app.
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