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One of the great things about living here in Southern Utah is that we have accessible mountains, with the plethora of things that they offer from recreational activities to enjoying the natural beauty.  One of my favorite benefits is the incredible vistas that one gets from the mountains.  On a clear day you really believe that you can see forever!

Bing Crosby sang this Country Classic years ago.  I thought of this song when I saw this photo:

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above, 
Don’t fence me in. 
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love, 
Don’t fence me in. 
Let me be by myself in the evenin’ breeze, 
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees, 
Send me off forever but I ask you please, 
Don’t fence me in. 

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle 
Underneath the western skies. 
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder 
Till I see the mountains rise. 

Another entry for today’s Photo Friday, this one I thought was just a beautiful shot.  It is a day or two after a storm, so the roads are at least passable, and it allowed these mountains a brief solo moment in the sun!  We should all have our moment in the sun!  Have a great weekend!

This is our entry into the Wordless Wednesday format.  This is a tree that is West of our office parking lot.  We love tree lined streets here in the old part of Cedar City.  I hope that you see the beauty and humor that was intended with this post!

In a blog by Russel Ray he questioned why bees didn’t respond as well as his cool cat did.  I was jealous that in San Diego the trees and plants were in bloom, here not so much.  Then I thought of some photos that Darcy took this morning.  It wasn’t a terribly cold, but the after affects of last nights fog looked like the trees had been flocked.

The black spots are English Starlings.

This is a photo from last winter of the snow in the sage brush and on some ledges.  It seems that this Winter not very many parts of the Country are exempt from snowfall!  I wanted to point out that even after all the storms out there, the sun comes out and there are blue skies ahead!  Have a great Weekend!

Brian Head is a wonderful ski resort, I know that it sounds odd for a Native Utahn, but I have never skied.  I injured my knees playing football when I was young, and to be honest, never had the desire to attempt skiing. Brian Head offers year round recreational opportunities.  This is a view of the sloped during the summertime when everything is beautiful and green.

I just posted in another blog that one of the things that I am so thankful for is that we live so near the mountains, with the cool air, pine tree forests and vistas.  I am also grateful that we live in the basin and range landscape of large open valleys.  Here they are mostly sage brush covered and offer unbelievable solitude, these combined with the mountains allow us to get away from things in a few minutes to whatever terrain that we are looking for! 

I need to get some more sleep or something.  The Sundance Film Festival opens today in Park City and Salt Lake and I got thinking about one of Robert Redford’s Films that was filmed around here; “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” It also starred Paul Newman as Utah’s Robin Hood, Butch Cassidy.  The song Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head by BJ Thomas was featured in that film, so here is my take:

Okay so they were hitting the window!

Here in Cedar City we are blessed with all 4 Seasons, we are currently expecting to receive some storms this week that should bring more snow to us.  We are blessed when the weather gets really bad or cold we can make a short 50 mile drive to St. George.  I think that St. George only has 2 Seasons temperate and the face of the Sun.  (Just kidding)  Anyway, back to what I was saying it is a lot of fun to get away and go to St. George when the weather is cold.

St. George is a lot larger than Cedar City and enjoys several very good golf courses, a lot of great restaurants, and it makes a great place to get away and spend some not so cold time together.  This isn’t a great photo, but it is a photo of St. George from the Stone Cliff Area:

This is another of the many reasons that we love living where we do, lots of fun things to do!