Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

Abel Russell Blood -And he is ----- Abel is the father of Moses, who is the father of Roscoe, who is the father of Russell, which makes him...

I know this guy named Dwight, whose life, so he says, has been quite a plight. He struggled, he loved, he laughed, he taught, He des...

It's the best I could do.  Who's the short thing in the middle?  Look how she looks adoringly at her older brother.  If I could only...

No. 17 today No. 17 before our time. How do we begin to describe what is felt by our connection to this picture?  Anna CHLADKOVA lived in...

Does any of this look familiar? I think Steve had posted the chip carved box that also had a place of prominence on the dresser/bureau. M...

A few weeks ago, Dwight asked me to post a photo of The dresser, so here it is. See how compliant I am - in this instance! Remember dustin...

 The three innocents sitting on the fence. This picture was taken in August of 1955, when we all went with Mother to Valley up the Sout...

In the days when girls were required to wear dresses to school, Louise and I were prepared for the first day of school. Louise wore her stor...

I am borrowing this picture from Dwight's collection.  The watermelon are gigantic compared with the seedless variety we  buy today.  Bu...

1952?  I believe so.  This is the view from the house, facing east and the sunrise and the old church.  Can anyone name that car?  What does...

I realized, as Dwight and I were talking about putting together more of our treasures, I probably had never shared with you some of the p...

Watching the flow of information and photos this past year on Penrose Mornings, and looking through the boxes of stuff I have, have prompted...

Think: Long, lonely, cold nights; Correspondence courses; Lessons.

My friend lent me her family keepsake: copies of the Farm Journal.  I had a delightful time reading articles (one on how to remove whitehead...

Velna and I were married December 22 1953 in the Salt Lake Temple.  Velna had a job and therefore could make payments on her engagement ring...

Nineteen Sixty Eight. Fifteen years after I graduated from the University of Wyoming. Velna receives her bachelor's degree in elementary...

May 1953.  Four years of struggle. I was 20 years old, acquired a wife and a college degree.  I cleaned every building on the UW campus duri...

These pictures are backwards in sequence....on the way home from camp, Leona Banks, Deanna Sedwick and I posed on the sandrock outside of Co...

I know, if I had my own blog I would post this there, but since I don't, and since I have been encouraged to post this on Penrose Mornin...

Check out the shadow - Again, my focus is horribly off, but this shows the burn barrell, and a little more of the Penrose scenery.

Love the haircut and the shorts. The haircut was a "Judy dare". The shorts and tops we made that summer out of pink and white c...

I love this photo of Steve. Does he look confident? Or does he look like he is off to conquer the world? Or does he look like "if M...

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...

Judy played the cello during high school. The focus on this photo is not great, but it does give a little bit of a look at the added on ro...

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...