Fielding Garr Sheep Ranch

hello little owls, are you up there?

didn't see any owls, but I spotted a pond of watercress,

pretty, old bottles in the root cellar,

old cars and a tractor in the field,

wrought iron relics,

and a horse saddled up, ready to ride...

The first settler on Antelope Island, Fielding Garr was sent by the LDS Church in 1848, to establish a ranch for "church tithing herds". The ranch was owned and operated by the church until the 1870's for the purpose of providing funds for the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which financed the emigration of Mormon converts from Europe to Utah.

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Pilgrimage

Hiked through the hills of Antelope Island over the weekend, amidst deer,

antelope, buffalo, coyotes, bald eagles, hawks, falcons, sage grouse...

an ephemeral yielding of the modern world

to the wild stillness of the landscape.

Mamas keep your children close...these

creatures are on the prowl!

Antelope Island

Almost every Spring I come here. The salt air and bird song,

clear away the winter webs.

My mother loved this island, it's otherworldliness.

The Native Americans believed

it to be the spirit world.

So do I.