Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

A lady in her stylish hat taking her dog out for a drive in her amazing automobile. If someone could identify the car and year, maybe we cou...

As per request, these are a couple of pictures from the book. There are more than one that were in black and white that were embellished w...

I don't know how or why this book came to be mine. Originally, it was a book from the School District No. 1 (Powell). The story would pr...

I received the following message this morning from my lifetime friend, Jack Davidson, who spent most of his professional career at the Unive...

OK, so I couldn 't trick anyone , there is only one bunny here , but it is one bunny of a bumper crop . The object of this is ...

Sometime ago, Ann posted this unknown photo. I wrongly identified who these children were and would like to make that correction here. I ...

In Mother's things was this little memory box for me, containing the Tiddley Winks cup and game pieces, my jacks, and the keys to tight...

Old Main, where I was an occasional student janitor 24 years later My sister Liz and I both studied this annual repeatedly.  I did not know ...

This is Rosebud, who will be forever immortalized in the hearts of Steve and Mary Lynn and anyone who came to see them. Mary Lynn's ga...

I asked Robert Petersen to elaborate on his mountain climbing exploit and he kindly furnished the following information, which I thought oth...

To celebrate finding a scanner driver that works with my Mac and my old Epson, saving me from having to buy a new scanner, and also simultan...

Good morning all, Greetings from my little corner of the world. Most of you know my story however, I will not assume that is true of all; at...

I just visited Steve Blood's new website as well as his blog. Both are a smash. His website is http://www.penrosedesign.com Take a l...

These pictures were taken last year - Top to bottom, Dwight, otherwise known as The Curmudgeonly Professor, his wife, Velna, and sister, Lo...

Judy told me I had omitted flowers for Louise's birthday.  I hereby correct this oversight with some orange cactus flowers, some dusty p...

I had to look hard to find another picture of Louise since my sisters have been busy, busy!  But here's one, San Bernardino (somewhere a...

I've always loved this picture that Dwight took of Louise and me doing the dishes. We didn't notice that our surroundings were very...

Eyes closed or not, this is one of my favorite pictures of Louise. It was a happy day at the Portland Temple and I was privileged to share t...

This picture was taken in the mid-80's when Stanley Allgeier, Dad's cousin, visited in Olympia. From left to right, Elna (Wasden, ...

This photo was taken in their later years.

As many of you know, Paul's 91 year old mother passed away last week. Her funeral was held on Monday, which meant that our family began...

In the late 1970's, Russell and Minnie Blood's grandson, Ron Blood, was in Vienna, Austria on a mission, and he sent a tapestry wit...

Aunt Lucinda (Cindy) Sorensen and Uncle Norman Sorensen were more frequent visitors to our home in Penrose. Cindy was the youngest girl in ...

This is the last of the photos in the collection of Aunt Rose with "Will" (William) by her side. In all of her letters to our par...

When Dad and Mother moved to 93rd south of Tumwater, Washington, they met many new people. One woman had Dad cut out wood for her tole pa...

Ann's table reminded me of the time I shared an office in an old building on the oval at Colorado A & M with a colleague.  First he ...

This picture was taken in Rose's garden in Deer Park, Washington. It was well known that Aunt Rose loved to garden. In her waning years...

"Father decided he would try digging a well. It was in a draw where it was very rocky. The farther down he dug the more rocks we found....