Sunday, January 30, 2011

Progress...and I just beat the snow!

I parked in the construction entrance at the NW corner of the lot
and took this picture looking towards the SE.
 Same vantage point except a little more to the N. 
See the tabernacle?

 The picture below was taken from my usual vantage point
directly South of the Temple looking north.  They're either building a
huge dog run, or else parking's going in.  Lot and lots of rebar.
 See...it does look like a dog run, doesn't it?

 I took this picture while standing on the steps of the tabernacle.
 I just had to take a picture of the tabernacle.  It whispered to me
that it's standing watch, in eager anticipation, over the temple.
 I'm standing just East and South of the temple.  You can clearly see
each of three corners.  I wonder when the last corner's going in?
One of my frends in the ward is concerned that the temple is sitting too
close to Main Street and wonders if she should contact someone to
tell them they got it wrong (that silly Janet!).

If you're not checking the Box Elder News Journal weekly for "arial" pictures
(taken from Smiths roof), you really ought to.  It gives such a great
overall picture of what's going on.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Where did the time go?

It's been awhile since I posted. Lots of progress is being made!  Since the last post all the snow has melted (except for a few dirty clumps here and there).  Can spring be far behind?  I'm just dreaming I guess.  The announcement was made last Sunday that the Ogden Temple will close the first week of April for the remodel to begin there.  According to a sister from our ward who works there, it sounds like it could take more time to remodel than to build a temple from scratch.  It will be interesting to see what happens.


I started taking my pictures while standing on the sidewalk to the east
of the temple looking  to the southwest (above). 
You can see the SW corner (tallest structure), the NW corner to its
right, and the SE corner (orange) being filled with cement.

Above is the cement going into the SE corner.

Above is looking to the NW.

I'm standing in the middle of the block to the south of the temple
looking north.  You can see all three corners of the temple. 
Check out all the rebar to the south of the temple.  Any guesses? 
Looking to the NE.  You can see the tabernacle on the right edge of the picture.

I took this from the SW corner of the temple lot.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Baby Steps...

I'm sorry the pictures are so dark, but it's a gloomy day. Rumor has it that the tall chimney looking thing is one of the corners.  It'll be interesting to see what it actually is. 
 Aren't you glad you're not one of the fellows clinging to it today!



Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Picture perfect day!

It looks like things are really moving along at the temple site. I'll bet the construction workers are glad when the sun shines. We've had some pretty low temps the last week or so.




It's so interesting to me that it looks like a lot more is going on than is portrayed in the pictures. 
They seem to be so flat looking where in real life,  the eye likes the 3-D experience.  Strange.