Happy Memorial Day!

Last year I resolved to make Memorial Day more meaningful than 
just another three day weekend.  Well, I kind of forgot about that 
until Friday.  However, since we weren't up in Salt Lake to visit
family graves we decided to go somewhere a little closer.
There is a pioneer cemetery in Silver Reef, about 30 minutes south of 
Cedar City, that Steven and I have visited a few times.

We picked up some pretty flowers and headed south.

 

The graves are so old, and a lot of them don't even have 

names, or the names have been rubbed off.

I kept thinking about the people who are buried there.

I have no idea who they were, or what they did, but I like to

wonder what their lives were like.  What did they do to further

the growth of southern Utah? What was their home life like?

Where did they come from?  What's their story?

It was neat, and it helped to make Memorial

Day more meaningful.

Then we drove to Red Cliffs

We'd considered camping there the night before, but

we got lazy and camped in our front room instead.

We probably wouldn't have found a campsite anyway, it

was super busy.

We hiked around looking for dinosaur tracks that I don't 

think really existed.  But we did see some old Anasazi ruins.

Plus, the landscape alone is worth the tiny entrance fee.

We've always seen this house from the freeway, 

so it was neat to actually find out what is was.

I think it's the last remaining home from what used

to be the settlement of Harrisburg.

 We drove by Quail Creek (which we'd never seen before), then 

into St. George for lunch, and took the back roads home to Cedar.

 It was a good day :)