Everyone may think it strange, but I do LOVE LOVE LOVE Southern Utah. It. Is. Gorgeous! Everyday I ride or drive to work looking at the mountains, desert, rock formations, clouds, and ever spectacular views feeling inspired. I can hardly keep myself from stopping the car, jumping out, photographing everything, and then going back later in the day to paint it. Every day that I get to spend outside is so beautiful I often fear that the next day I will find out I have just a few more days to live or something! That sounds morbid, but I don't mean it like that. I guess I mean, as sappy as it sounds, I feel truly thankful that the powers that be allowed me to experience the beauty of the world. I am so blessed to have the eyesight to see it, the legs to hike about it, the work that takes me out into it, and the soul to appreciate it.
I smile when I hear people complaining about this little snowstorm in May, or the fact that it's not 'summer' yet, or 'I'm so tired of rain'... because I realize that they haven't been able to look at the snow clouds dropping snow on the Pine Valley Mountains with the red and tan sandstone cliffs of snow canyon in the foreground, dotted with soft, new, baby green sage brush... or that maybe, they looked and couldn't see how amazing and gorgeous it is! In a month, it will likely be a sweltering 110 degrees everyday and everyone should just look out the window and soak up what little, beautiful spring we have here... it's gorgeous!
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