Wild About Utah

The Canyon, like there is no other. It’s a place we go to get away from, or get into, it.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Wild About Utah! We’ll talk with four of the contributors: Shannon Rhodes, Patrick Kelly, Jack Greene and Mary Heers.

Jack Greene writes, "I consider tree squirrels to be on par with many primates for intelligence and agility. Those who have bird feeders may agree with me as they vainly attempt to thwart squirrel’s from invading their feeders."

This world, this here, this beautiful now, I choose and choose nowhere else, because today I see beavers, and grasshoppers, and eagles and get to wonder when the ducks will again fly south.

Did you know that Mormon crickets are not crickets, grasshoppers or cicadas, but large shield-backed katydids that walk or hop rather than fly?

As your summer progresses and perhaps you find yourself in need of a sigh of relief from woe, leave your flashlights, glowing rectangles and worries inside.

The minute I heard there was a well-stocked community fishing pond just five miles down the road from where I live, I dusted off my old fishing pole, slipped out of the house and threw my line into the Wellsville Reservoir.

We humans aren’t the only ones suffering from our disappearing lake.

My Grandma Eda asked that thistle be a prominent flower at her funeral. I’ve always been struck by how she saw past the prickly spikes to find beauty in the flower I know as a weed, certainly a metaphor for how she saw her life.

A piano in the gazebo strikes the first chords and the May Queen and her entourage step around the corner of the church and onto the green.