Spring in Zions

Many years ago when I was selling some of my floral designs at a craft boutique in St. George we did a quick drive through of Zion's and it became a destination place for our family.  Kerry and I love to go and spend time there together and just hike and talk.  We decided to go in the Spring before the heat was too bad.

In some places snow was still visible and there was more water than I had ever seen in the park.

I love seeing these hanging gardens.

In Springdale we noticed these beautiful Rosemary plants growing all over and I was jealous because they could go out at anytime and have it fresh year round.  For most of them it was just an ornamental plant.

This is Marcy and Jonathan who run the Red Rock Inn, they are a really cute couple

At the Weeping Wall Trail we watched the Condors for a long time.  There were five that just glided around

the Canyon.

In all of the years we have been going to Zion's this is the first time we have seen the Desert Sheep once we discovered them and a little about them we found countless numbers it was fun to see them.

At the end of the River Walk Trail we sat down to watch people and these little critters. He could smell the trial mix we were munching on and kept getting closer and closer until he was looking right in Kerry's eyes it was so fun to watch.  In the background you could hear camera shutters clicking as people were taking pictures of the same thing.

Water was running all over it was amazing.

At the beginning of the River Walk Trail these guys were working their way up the rock it was pretty cool to watch them work up the rock and then disappear over the top to go higher.

One of our families favorite places are the "pancake rocks"  on the east side of the park.  It has been hard to watch the changes take place over the years.  This rock used to have the big black surface on top that the kids would  scamper on now they are falling and the black surrounds the base.  It made me cry and then I realized nothing stays the same and even bringing the kids here is different I couldn't help but be sentimental about it.

  I SURE LOVE THIS GUY!!!!!!

From the rocks that we always played on we decided to hike up a little further to one of the arches we could see.  Little did I know my suggestion would be such a strenuous hike or how difficult it would be in places. This is almost to the beginning of the canyon and it is sheer rock below.  It was exhausting but really fun and we explored yet another part of the park, just the two of us.

These were the sheep that we came upon first, we couldn't believe they were just out in the open and that we actually got so close to them.

I love Zion's National Park and the time with Kerry.