More Temple Windows at Winter Quarters Temple

 There are 12 window murals in the south window of the temple.  They are each teaching a lesson about the immigration.  I was able to find nine pictures of the 12 on line.  The are much prettier in person with the light shining through them.  Some almost look like rainbows in the clouds.

The odometer to help measure distance traveled

Florence Mill

Brigham Young who lead the emigration

I assume Chief Big Elk who parlayed with Brigham Young near Cutler's Park

Handcart-- Didn't travel this way until 1856, 10 years later

Enlisting in thr Mormon Battalion

river crossing

Poetry I Like: A WIdow's Lullaby at Winter Quarters, 1846

A WIdow's Lullaby at Winter Quarters, 1846 by Edna S. Browne in Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Thomas X. Smith Camp 2005-2006

Sleep, my little one--
Sleep while Mother dreams
Of your comely smile
And your small hands cupping my heart;
Of my completeness, holding you;
The happy burden of your trust,
My pride in your unfolding;
The wonders wished for you
Since our first touch.

Even here--
Here in the wind-whipped place,
This savage wilderness,
You have been my courage
And my star.

Sleep, my little one--
Sleep in your narrowbed
Under your coverlet of prairie sod
And stones gently piled . . .
Sleep, while Mother dreams
And weeps--
Walking the long, lonely miles ahead.