Picto Diary - 07 to 17 September 2026 - The Roof Restaurant

Above: The Market. Park City, UT. 07 September 2026.
What happens when you leave the house without a wife scan.

Above: Park City Market. Park City, UT. 07 September 2026.
LSDM Walkers.
McClaren.
Also, on this walk saw Astin Martin SUV, Mercedes AMX SUV, and two Audi high-performance coupes.

Above: Tehran, Iran. 1964. Nostalgia, Pic.
Mwah (sic). Here I'm nineteen years old. I'm traveling through Iran overland with three classmates from American University in Cairo. Laurie Parrish and David Parrish, brothers from Connecticut. And John ?? from Indiana. Iran. A friendly, peaceful place back in those days.

Above: The Roof Restaurant, Salt Lake City, UT. 10 September 2026.

The restaurant’s been gutted, polished, and rechristened since I last darkened its door a good many years back. It still sits on the top floor of the Joseph Smith Building, just a stone’s throw east of Temple Square, looking down on the Salt Lake Temple like a proud uncle after the august edifice finally finished its seven-year renovation.

I ate there with TIMDT, Portland, and Mark and Lisa (TIMDT's nephew and niece) who’d flown in from Arkansas. The temple glowed in the background, all fresh limestone and new dignity, as if it had just come home from the spa. I liked the place. I’ll go back.

What tickled me most was how the kitchen leaned hard into Mormon culture instead of pretending it wasn’t there. Beehive rolls. Funeral potatoes. Honest-to-goodness comfort food with a pedigree.

There’s a business idea sitting right there on the table, if anybody’s paying attention. Open a restaurant that goes the whole distance on homestyle Mormon family cooking—the real stuff, not the dressed-up version. Jell-O salads that wobble with conviction. Beanie weenie casserole. Chicken and rice casserole. Potato chip, mushroom soup and tuna casserole. Those dishes that somehow taste like Sunday afternoon. Call it an antidote to the whole frilly Michelin circus. I’m dead serious. My favorite dish on earth is still my mom’s mac and cheese, and I suspect I’m not the only one.

Above: Wasatch Bagel. 11 September 2026.

LSDM Friday Colloquium.
Topics:
9/11. Where were you?
F16 Namibia hunt report.
Box Elder data center.
China behind data center protest.
Utah water. Indian share.
Amazon plane crash in Miami.
Wesley's talk on psychedelics.
Mounting 5 Acres resistance.

Above: Rice Eccles Stadium. Salt Lake City, UT. 12 September 2026.

NCAA football. Arkansas at Utah.

Image looks west into the Oquirrh Range post sunset.

Above: Rice Eccles Stadium. Salt Lake City, Ut. 12 September 2026.
Mwah (sic), Koessler, Lisa and Mark.
The game was won handily by Utah, but us Pig fans enjoyed the game, notwithstanding.

Above: Ivins, UT. 13 September 2026.

A change of scenery for TIMDT and Mwah (sic).

Above; Ivins, UT. 15 August 2026
Ivins Park. Freddie in the van.

Above: Ivins Park. Ivins, UT. 16 August 2026.
James Comey was here?

Above: Black Desert Country Club. Ivins, UT. 16 September 2026.
Breakfast at Latitude.
Makes you want to take up golf. Not really. But setting and view were nice!

Above: Ivins, UT. 17 September 2026.
Palisades. Granny on her new EV trike.
Freddie in the foreground.