Last November the Nauvoo Monument to Women never looked more stunning with its brilliant fall colors. Well, the gardens continue to amaze us. Kudos to those wonderful folks at FM who each growing season plant, tend and care for this sweet, sacred garden. The Nauvoo Monument to Women, a statuary plaza near the visitors’ center at Nauvoo, was dedicated June 28–30, 1978 by President Spencer W. Kimball in three ceremonies. I’m sure he would be pleased.

This was another take the camera for a quick-look-see-at-what-might-be-blooming and again we were stunned, but this time by the beauty of tulips. Each bed was filled with hundreds and hundreds of solid, striped, single and double blooms in red, yellow, pink, white and mixed.

The heavenly scent that filled the air was only surpassed by the breathtaking sight of spring bursting forth in all its glory.