Temple Square and more

Temple Square...

...or is it square Temple?
Either way, this spot of Manhattan is pretty cool, even sacred.

The flowers on Temple Square - earlier this Spring

Temple Square flowers even spread across the street onto Broadway.
The heat of July is taking it's toll...
Our Temple Square...such a blessing to the Latter-day Saints.
Serving 15 stakes; 8 in New York State (5 of these are in New York City limits),
6 stakes in New Jersey and 1 in Connecticut.

The temple offers a place of peace and spiritual renewal just
steps away from the honking of taxi's, sirens of fire trucks
and jack-hammering of construction.

Construction is 24/7/365 in NYC. If not an area of the temple building,
it will be a street, or subway, or neighboring business. Currently it is
the 3rd floor of the temple building AND our apartment building.

Our apartment entrance should look something like this.
The whirling corner revolving door has been
ripped out and will be replaced with a side entrance.

Our elevator access has been reduced to 2. The other
is walled off for use by workers remodeling the hallways.
The remaining elevators work hard to service the 37 floors
of this building. Some residents are unhappy about the
changes but we think the upgrades are needed.
After all, we are located on Temple Square!

Our formerly grand/but dated lobby now looks like this...
(You can understand why we are using a temporary entrance
and have walled off the elevators.)

To get away from construction at work and home we meandered
up the street for a FHE treat at the ice cream truck. On the
way we pass Loews, a 15 theater complex two blocks away.
It often looks like this...

As we walked up we saw this. Take a guess...

...only in Gotham City, the Batmobile!
And the World Premiere of the latest version.
Cheers for Bruce "Christian Bale" Wayne.

The crowds were scarier than the movie. Coming through
the crowd to say hello was our friend Amy, a producer at ABC.

Following our FHE treat and "activity" we went home.
Quickly, our focus and perspective were reinforced with our lesson.

***Howell Family Marquis***
Upcoming features:
Jerry turns 27 tomorrow!
RayDean & Jon see Times Square tomorrow!
Luke turns 363 days tomorrow!
We await Meredith's baby, tomorrow????

Have a great day...TODAY,
because tomorrow never comes...but don't tell that to Meredith :)
xoxo