The Southern Utah landscape is simply quite amazing and inspiring!  While still cool here in Rexburg with 8 feet of snow in our local mountains, South Eastern Utah is warm and bug free. Each year we are drawn back to this region to enjoy its uniqueness.  Ed Abbey in the preface to his classic “Desert Solitaire” eloquently describes his experience with Souther Utah... He said “The wind will not stop.  Gusts of sand swirl before me, stinging my face.  But there is still too much to see and marvel at, the world very much alive in bright light and wind, exultant with the fever of spring, the delight of morning.  Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb, bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock.  The extreme clarity of the desert light is equalled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms.  Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”