The early morning has to be the finest part of the day! On the side of the canyon that I live on, the sunrises are magnificent. Weather fronts create the most dramatic effects. If there are clouds behind the mountains that you can’t even see, only the tops of the clouds that you can see [...]

Zion National Park takes a tentative first step to restore a forgotten part of the natural environment.
As I write these words, a light plane – undoubtedly some tourist with enough money to rent one for a few hours – is circling over Zion Canyon and Springdale making a sound like an angry lawnmower. A couple [...]

This last storm had a lot of water in it.
When I fed the birds this morning, their seed dish had at least a full inch of water in it. That’s a lot of water in a 24 hour period. The mountains are white. The little ponds I have dug around the house are all full [...]