Brigham City Temple...

 We live approximately twenty miles from the two grocery stores from which we do most of our shopping. Because of this distance, we take our trip into town once a week--sort of like the settlers of America's history when they hitched up the horses and went to town for supplies. In or modern world, we hitch several dozen horses (fueled by gasoline and not hay...) and do the same thing.

Normally, we'd go in the mornings, but the last couple of weeks we've been driving in to Brigham City at night. And one of the incredible buildings in that city is the LDS temple. Announcement that the temple was to be built took place in August 2009. They broke ground in July the next year, and it was completed in September 2012.

Before we moved up here, we hardly ever saw the building. We'd see it whenever we drove north to Idaho, and of course, when we came back home. Now, we're seeing it at least once a week, and at night, you can actually see the double spires from our house...they're really small, but you can see the building.

A week ago, we picked up groceries from one store. As we drove away. I looked back and saw the temple spires rise above the Smiths Grocery Store. I snapped a picture and posted it with the caption "Smiths...Temple." It generated a lot of comments. I wrote what I wrote to point out the two buildings, a Smiths and a temple. I think people might have thought I meant I was implying this was one building, not two. So, instead of the Brigham City Temple, I was saying it was the Smiths Temple.

Not really what I was going for.

A week later, and without the grocery store in the shot, I found myself at an intersection with the temple and the tabernacle all lit up. I prefer the second shot, unobstructed by commercialism. Don't get me wrong...I'm not anti-commercialism, just not in the shot.

It's a beautiful building, and it looks spectacular at night.