Category: june 2018

Portland||OR||Hoyt Arboretum

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Beyond Downtown Portland cool… Just 15′ ride on MAX Light Rail to Washington Park and the scenery changes completely. The park is so huge they offer a free shuttle service looping around the park’s main attractions, but we thought we’d take a trail through the Arboretum that would eventually lead us to the Japanese Garden. Eventually it didn’t (we got lost on the way* and switched to one of the main roads skirting the park; more ”urban” but no less stimulating, lined as it was with beautiful houses, completely surrounded by nature).

*All trails are clearly marked, some of them paved. We got lost only because we were taking shortcuts, thinking they would lead us faster to our destination.

Portland, OR

June 8th, 2018

Salt Lake City || The Beehive House

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We walk past the Lion House first; a large residence built in 1856 by Brigham Young, second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to accommodate his extensive family. Brigham Young was a polygamist (a practice discontinued since the beginning of the 20th century) who fathered 57 children by his many wives, and was also father to a number of adopted, foster, and stepchildren. It is adjacent to his other residence, the Beehive House, built in 1854, which served as his primary residence as well as the offices for the Church and Brigham Young’s work as governor of Utah Territory.

Today, the Lion House is an event space, not open to the public for visits, but the Beehive House functions as a museum with volunteers (missionaries of the LDS church) giving free tours into the various rooms with period furniture – most of it original – and wonderful woodwork with bees, the emblem of Utah – curved everywhere.

Salt Lake City, UT

June 6th, 2018

 

Salt Lake City || South Visitors’ Center

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A replica of Thorvaldsen’s Christus, commissioned by LDS Church ”to help visitors understand that Latter-day Saints are Christians”. A towering marble figure of 3.4-metres (11-foot) replica displayed in front of a star-studded mural. It certainly is convincing.

PS: The original Christus is displayed in Denmark’s Church of Our Lady, in Copenhagen.

Temple Square, Salt Lake City, UT

June 6th, 2018