A few weeks back, I visited the marina at the Great Salt Lake State Park. The Great Salt Lake is beautiful (albeit smelly) but something else significantly left me awestruck this time. There is a large rock jetty at the marina, which is usually a wonderful place to watch the sunset from the marina. I was quite surprised to find this entire jetty, absolutely completely covered in spiders. Thousands of them. They are known as the Western Spotted Orb-weaver, and they thrive in t

This series of photos is a few months old, taken early February. It was a warmer winter day, comparatively to the rest of the days during this winter in Utah; I'm sure, had it not been, the island would have been under a blanket of snow. Between the overcast day and the effects the cold had on the landscape, I can only describe this place as completely surreal. Atop the highest points, you could see storms shadowing parts of the island, and the stillness of the Great Salt Lak

There's something truly different about walking in the woods in early autumn, especially here deep in the mountains. It's almost cathartic to be out here, where almost everything is beginning to sleep; the trees are dropping their leaves, the cold is keeping the birds from their normal flight, and the quiet of winter is approaching. There is snow that falls during the night, yet melts with the morning sun. Rivers and waterfalls are raging from the excess water. It is almost w

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