Posted by admin on April 26, 2013 in
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The red in the rocks to the north of where we stood bled like rusty paint into the juniper-piƱon green. To the south and west, the chalky white buttes and ridges jutted and alternately reminded me of the ends of white spuds and crumbling teeth from a shark’s jaw fossil. The streets in the little […]
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Posted by admin on August 6, 2012 in
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Wayne County, Utah, at 6:00 AM, and the morning breezes crowded around the willow leaves and brought the mosquitoes. First light spread over the red land. With all the Mars hubbub in the news, it made me wonder. We live on a red planet, too. And yellow and travertine green and gray and blue and […]
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