Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

This is the second time today I've posted this - the first time was a real mess, and I finally figured out what to do about it. ...

No remedies existed for this photo.  However, it tells so many stories the way it is--the summer day, the wash on the line, Louise in the...

Sometimes it is a sight, sometimes it is a smell and sometimes it is a sound that takes us back to the love of our Penrose home.  I captured...

The shop is on the right, the lean to garage straight ahead, the light pole that the cat named Holstein (a coward) would shinny up and sit...

I apologize for feeding the blog so much this morning. Recovering from the flu bug that was generously shared while we were together last ...

The pictures on the wall have changed. I wonder what they were? Judy is busy with something and now you can see the stencil on the end of...

This photo of Judy is on the same negative strip as the one with Steve under the truck. Note the baseball glove on her left hand. Did she...

What do you think that Steve is looking for????  Name this truck....year and model.  Remember when Mother laid the bricks so she could have ...

How did I ever get Ann to take all of these pictures?  I'm sure happy that she did as I think this is the only picture of the old sewing...

A couple of years earlier with a more reasonable pose.  Notice the pansey curtains and Elizabeth's graduation picture on top of the ches...

I suspect if I played with this photo I could cut back on the glare, but oh, well. And what can you see in this photo? Note, the curtains ...

Here are a few lines from a poem by Thomas Hood I included in my book "Echoes of My Wyoming Boyhood."  I hope I am not infringing ...

Morning get-out-of-bed-and-get-going time always came early at our house. Dad always had to get up and milk the cows, 30 below zero or not,...

Kemp took this picture when he visited Penrose this last winter. At first glance, I did not recognize the picture as THE house. The hills ...

Whose turn is it to bring in a load of coal from the coal shed? Got to keep the fire going so the stove can keep us warm, cook the dinner,...

I have borrowed this photo from Dwight's archives. Just as his photo of the lilacs brought to remembrance the sweet perfume, so does th...

How does a cat keep from freezing to death in the Wyoming winter cold? Where did we get this cat? How old was he? Any stories to share? ...

I don't know who we owe for this photo of our Penrose home. The winter of 1959 I spent at BYU. The day I left to return to school the...