I lived in Utah for one year.

dry baked cracked desert land. no. just in my mind, not in the visual... 

the visual: endless sage brush. sage brush has the amazing
effect of appearing to be very short, but in reality being
as tall and scrubby and able to hide things as the trees
back here in the east. Used to go and scan the fields for
my neighbors horses, and they'd have disappeared into
the sage brush...

it's a good thing that i went there for the year, although
everyone hears me say how much i hated it. but i hated
it purposefully. i didn't want to like someplace where 
i'd only be for a year. but it's what happened all the same.
everything really does happen for a reason...

                                                                    (moths)