The Curmudgeonly Professor

I have Cheerfully Stolen my Sister Judy's Blog Header for Amsbaugh Gardens

Since not many of my blog readers are likely to check my sister Judy's Amsbaugh Gardens, linked on the right, I stole the header photo for her beautiful garden to share with my readers.  I am trading her straight across for the photos of her granddaughter, Grace, which are posted below.  A fair trade, I believe. 

On the Way to Powell WY: A Vintage Prairie Wagon in Evanston WY

I should shrink the following photo, but it just doesn't have the same effect

 

 

The Advantages of Being a Psychoneurotic

Yes, dear blog reader, the Curmudgeonly Professor was diagnosed as a psychoneurotic when he was 20 years old.  Just married, a baby on the way, and in my senior year of college, I and a busload of my fellow students were summoned from Laramie to Denver for physicals and inductions.  No graduation in May.  No college degree for who knows how long.  Gone for birth of first baby.  Straight from infantry ROTC at the University of Wyoming to snow-covered foxholes in Korea dodging bullets.  It was a scary moment in all of our lives.  Then the cardiologist at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital determined that I was psychoneurotic with a psychogenic cardiovascular reaction.  In other words, I had palpitations of the heart and I was nuts.

On the Fourth of July my thoughts wander a bit to the fairness or unfairness of my not serving in the military while many of my classmates left school and some did not come home.  It has been comforting all my life, however, to realize that I am nuts.  This diagnosis excuses me from any necessity to act rationally.  No one wants to mess with a psychoneurotic curmudgeonly professor.  But I have often thought of my friends and classmates and their experiences during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.  One never knows what life has in store for us.  And I have always been grateful for what others have done in my stead.

Roses on the Way to the Mailbox: Photos of the the Day July 4 2009

                                           

   

Gracie the Photographer, Age 5, With Red Lips from Jolly Rancher Candy

 

A Rose for the Fourth of July: Photo of the Day July 3 2009

Wild Roses: Photos of the Day July 3 2009

                                          

The Lowly Tamarisk Tree, Prince of Trash Trees, Adorned for Spring: Photo of the Day July 3 2009

Cottonwoods and Sagebrush: Photo of the Day July 2 2009

On I-80 near Echo Junction in Utah, Headed for Wyoming: Photos of the Day July 2 2009

Approaching Echo Junction.  Not the best photo at 70 mph, but one of the most gorgeous views in Utah

 

Say Goodby to the Tulips from Thanksgiving Point for Another Year: Photos of the Day July 2 2009

                                            

Tulips and Red Blossoms from Thanksgiving Point: Photos of the Day July 1 2009

                                             

 

Photos from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center

A poor photo, but the only standing remnant of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, a haunting reminder.  I think it was the smokestack for the hospital, but I'm not sure.  Does someone know for certain?

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We Were the High School Annual Editors

 We three, Dolores, Elaine, and I, were the Powell High School Annual Editors, spending much of our senior year of school producing the best high school annual ever put together from PHS, 1949                                  

                                        

                                    50th high school reunion, 1999

                                       

                                    60th high school class reunion, 2009.  Thankfully, we three could all be there.

                                      

Traffic Roundabout in South Salt Lake City: Photos of the Day June 30 2009