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| Every year around this time I find the need to go see something breathtakingly beautiful. |
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| Maybe it is because school is in its last month, and it is hard to do the home stretch of school for some teachers….Like me. I hate it and I love it at the same time when school comes to an end. |
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| You can probably guess why I love it, summer vacation and all….. but I hate it too. It’s like a fun party that is now over. That’s how it feels for me. I love my job. I love teaching little kids. It’s the greatest job on earth. |
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| Even though mine is WAY down on the list of The 100 Best Jobs in America…..CHECK it out! My job, Elementary school teacher, #92, isn’t as good as a Funeral Director’s, but is a tad better than a sewage plant operator! LOL |
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This year will be particularly hard for me because I’ve taught most of these darling kids for 2 years and I love them all.
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| So I go to find beauty in the world somewhere……and here it is at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah. |
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| If you need a lift….go see a beautiful flower garden….it will light up your life! JUST LOOK AT IT!!! |
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| How could you not feel joy looking at yards and yards of this? |
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| As I walked from one garden to another I kept thinking, “Well, now THIS one is my favorite….no, no….now THIS one is!” |
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| I had planted tulips in my own garden for the first time this year…and they came up as such a lovely surprise just after winter….right as the last snow was just melting…. |
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| But the deer in our neighborhood found them a week later and ate all the beautiful, red tops off!!! |
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| Now I’m just left with the leaves and stems….it’s pretty funny looking…. |
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| But these tulip gardens are simply breathtaking, and there is a glorious riot of color everywhere…. |
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| I love it at Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival….it’s only at the beginning of April every year….it lasts for just a few weeks! |
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| And then it is gone. Just like Spring in Utah. I dragged the hubs even though he has a bad knee and can’t walk for long… |
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| But he is such a trooper anyway because he knows how much I love being there…. |
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| It’s like Disneyland for a flower lover….. |
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| In the gift shop I loved this wall of clocks…..everything was very expensive there…..We saw an $8,000 couch. Yeah, I don’t think we will be buying our furniture there…. |
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| I think this was my true favorite….purple, white and red….. |
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| Did I tell you red was my favorite color? |
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| We got a nice stranger to snap this pic…the hubs and I. |
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| Then we drove out to Wendover the the Peppermill Concert Hall to see Dana Carvey’s comedy show. Gotta love the church lady. It was so funny I laughted till I cried! These kinds of things make life worth livin….. Beauty and Laughter…2 of the best things in life. |
How gorgeous! I'm sitting out here in the Arizona desert and I am truly envying you 🙂
LOL. Yeah that would be hard, all that harsh dry weather would do me in I believe. Come visit Utah. The 4 seasons do show themselves here.