Flowers, Fences, Friends, and the Fourth

Eldon loves the split rail fences

At the brickyard showing how the walls were made 3 bricks deep

Gigantic water lotuses on the Mississippi

Near the school house

Our front yard

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye

A picturesque barn

Queen Anne's lace at the edge of the river

We went over to Fort Madison because they were commemorating the 4th. They dressed in period costume.

They had cooked chicken stew and biscuits over an open fire on the hearth.

The flag over Fort Madison

Preparing to give an 18 gun salute

It was LOUD

                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                          

That evening there was a potluck barbeque. Sister Franklin took a lot of pictures:

Wonderful strawberries!

 Here are some of the friends we've made here:

The Heils are from Colorado where he teaches art. He studied at BYU where Uncle Glen was on his committee.

The Pollocks are from California. He's a chiropractor and a jokester.

The Roses are from West Jordan. He was on the church curriculum committee.

The Lances met while young missionaries in the British Mission. To their left are the Ekins, cattle farmers from Delta.

The Winegars and the Olsens

The Rockwoods like to geocach.

The Andersons were Uncle Clif's home teachers.

The Memmots have 26 children between them.

The Jensons are from Sandy. He graduated from the U of U in Industrial Engineering two years after Eldon. They've been going to the YMCA with us.

The Ashes are a friendly couple from Canada.

The Langfords were our mentors.

The Turners are from Magna, Utah.