Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

After watching Matlock today, I felt inspired to add a comment to the ongoing discussion of poultry.  Matlock was gathering eggs, and a cont...

Has this been posted before?  I am getting ready to go scan journals etc. at BYU and found this clipping in the back of Mother's ledger ...

A few posts back, Dwight posted a photo from our family gathering when Paul and I lived east of Salem, Utah.  He asked if anyone had any ...

The title of this picture is "Liz, get your hand off this pitchfork."  The look on my face is one of utter disgust; the look on...

As many countless times as I have seen this photo from Mother's collection, I never noticed until I blew it up that a woman was stan...

I reworked this classic picture the best I could.  Scene on lawn in front of Grandma and Grandpa Wasden's. Louise, Mom, Elna (can...

Apparently this year (probably 1933) was the first and last year when weather conditions were perfect for growing cantaloupe because I do...

Here it is July 14.  Velna told me a week ago to send a card, but my busy itinerary intervened.  Maybe this will do until I get a card se...

This is for sure Veronika (Sarah).

 This is a sad lesson in why we shouldn't crop photos.  These are photos I took of Dwight's two oldest boys, Russell and Ron, wh...

This photo was taken when Uncle Stanley came to visit. Dad's shop in Penrose. This is a fun photo that shows the old cellar e...

The note on the back of this is unfamiliar handwriting, but it says "Russell M. Blood at Dewey Riddle Ranch about 1930" Ther...

One of the all-time favorite pictures of early Penrose

This is a photo that is new to me (ok, so it was in my stuff???).  It is a photo of the Dewey S. Riddle Ranch in Painter W...

 

Elizabeth and her mud pies in her Sunday dress.

The Shumway house, which was always called "Rosie's", is in the distance.  The mailbox is barely discernible, but was our co...

A bit fuzzy.  Amazingly, I remember the skirt Louise is wearing in this photo.  Had we gone to Church?  If so, where?  When did church sto...

Thanks to whoever took this picture.  Liz, maybe?

One of those rare times when someone else took a picture and I was in it.  We had no idea what we were in for when we headed for Ann Arbor...

This Penrose visit occured late summer 1956.  Ron was born shortly after and, when he was two weeks old, Velna and I and two kids took of...

Are there childhood smells you sometimes long for?  Fresh baked bread or Mother's fried chicken, the smell of the sagebrush after a rain...