The Desert Blooming

Last week we barely survived all the spring break visitors.  About five hundred people a day tried to visit the Brigham Young Winter Home.  This week has been calmer.  We actually got to give people some personalized attention.  I gave out two English Books of Mormon to some people who were from India but now live in California.  I told them I had friends serving a mission in India.

It's beautiful down here in the desert right now.  The cacti are blooming and the yellow desert daisies and orange globe mallow are all over the place.  I was able to get pictures of our own Argentine cactus in bloom.  I also bought a red one this year.  I was surprised to see the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly fly into it for nectar.

A desert spiny lizard has taken up residence in our back yard.  They grow to be 13 inches long.  He's very shy and hard to capture in a photo.

More cactus pictures!

Our Karen was with me when I took this picture.  She and Jim came to the mayor's meetings in St. George.  We were together on National Siblings Day.  It was really fun.  I love all my sisters and my brother.  Rich stayed with us a couple of days and played golf with his friends.


Susan Easton Black and George Durrant are leaving on Monday.  George is an artist and has painted a watercolor picture of the St. George Tabernacle, Brigham Young Home, Jacob Hamlin Home and just finished the St. George Temple.  They have made prints of each of these places and given them to all the senior missionaries.  We will miss them a lot.  Their talks each Saturday at noon in the tabernacle have been excellent and well attended by the community.

                                       Elder and Sister Burt and Sister and Elder Durrant