The Salt Lake Temple

In the past few days, Dearie and I had been hosting her cousin and nephew from New Zealand who came to the reunion (Purcell Reunion).  As typical of us Utahns when we have visitors from outside Utah and/or America, we would always include a Temple Square tour/visit as part of their itinerary.  Temple Square according to Forbes, is the 16th most visited site in the United States with about 5 million visitors a year.  The Salt Lake Temple (or the "mountain of the Lord's House" according to the prophet Isaiah), is an iconic building of the LDS Church, with a remarkable history.

And so as we took our Kiwi guests for a tour there, and while they were documenting their visit through their own pictures, videos, etc., I spent some time taking some of my own creative shots of the temple with my iPhone.

A couple of things that added to the beauty and majesty of the temple on this day - as hopefully reflected in the pictures - were the weather and season (being late Spring with its flowers and blossoms in and around the site).  The sun was also bright and imposing adding to the glow and divine appearance of the edifice.

Here are some of the pictures.