When you tell most people that you are going to visit Utah… they respond with:  “What the heck is in Utah?”

Yes.  It is the underestimated state… in my estimation.

There is plenty here.  Really.

Big rocks.  Lots of big pretty rocks.  (And yes….this is yet another evening in which I have provided additional visual evidence to support my claim of all the huge rocks.)

At the very top of some of the big rocks….   more than 500 inches of snow falls  per year.  Powdery snow.  People come here with skis strapped on to their tootsies as a result.

Now…. if you are an actor, you may want to go to Kanab.  It is known as Little Hollywood.  Who knew that a large number of motion pictures are filmed each year… there in little Kanab.

And since we speak of towns…. Levan is located smack dab in the center of Utah.  Look at that town’s name backward, and it spells navel.  Huh.

Utah has five national parks: Arches, Canyonlands, Zion, Bryce and Capitol Reef.  It also has six national forests:  Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-LaSal, Uinta, and Wasatch-Cache.

The state bird is the California Sea Gull.  Now what is wrong with that picture?

The state cooking pot… is the Dutch Oven.  First they borrow from California… and then from the Dutch.    Thank goodness the state tree is a Blue Spruce.  If it were the Buckeye Tree, I’d really start to wonder about these folks.

However…. these folks out here…….  They ARE a little quirky here indeed.  I asked one lady where she was from….. and she said: “You Tall.”

I said… “No.  Me not tall.  Me short.  So where you from?”

“You Tall.”

Again…. “Nope….  I am not nearly as tall as some.  So then tell me….. where are you from?”

Oh….this went on and on.  I never did get a straight answer.  And she just walked away shaking her head.

At any rate.  The day was good.  I saw more cliffs, and formations, and great big boulders.   One of them teeters… way up on a ledge.  Yep.  It Rocks.

I’ve also noticed this about some of the graveyards and headstones out here.  They look the same as they do back east, and down in the south.

The thing that I’ve seen is this.  It appears that “life” is the dash between the birth date and the death date.

So…  Make YOUR Dash Count!  – Polly the Kronyish