Plan 10 From Outer Space is Real.

Guess what I did last weekend? You couldn't possibly. My inlaws came up to visit from Provo before they head east for a summer sabatical (FIL is a physics professor at BYU). First we went to Red Butte Garden to see the life-sized dinosaurs, and then we went to dinnner at Chuck-A-Rama. As if that wasn't cultural enough, next we took a stroll around the soon-to-be world famous Gilgal Garden. This place is tucked unobtrusively into the Salt Lake City landscape between a Seventh Day Adventists church, the aforementioned Choke-A-Rama, and a Wonderbread factory. It used to be the backyard of an eccentric yet talented man named Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. who created several bizarre sculptures based on Mormon theology. It's wild, Peaches, just wild. Somebody was going to tear it down a few years ago to build an apartment complex or a Walgreens (no, wait, they tore Bill 'n' Nada's down for that), but a few people got together, raised the funds, and turned it into a city park. If you haven't seen it yet, it's lovely at sunset, especially with the gluey smell from the Wonderbread factory wafting on the breeze.


The Angel Moroni interpreted in rebar.