Reflections on the American Southwest

Loving a landscape that will never love us back.

Author’s dog taking in the view at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, USA

My dog Athena and I were about two miles up Arch Canyon within the recently created Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. It was the final day of our stay there before heading south into Arizona.

The wind was picking up in advance of the season’s first potential snowstorm, but for…