Bryce Canyon in Snow

I have always wanted to visit Bryce Canyon National Park, and I got my wish last February. We parked the car and walked over to the edge and I just started giggling. OH. MY. GOSH. How could something this breathtaking actually exist!!! (and it WAS breathtaking - it was 3 degrees outside!!) We piled on the layers and hiked down into the canyon. It was such an amazing day. We only saw 1 or 2 people walking up as we were walking down, and then we had the canyon to ourselves for the day. What an incredibly magical place! I can't imagine it without snow, or with crowds of people. It was just phenomenal.

Painting snow in the desert is fun too because it takes on a bit of the red/purple of the rock. Snow is NOT white. I so enjoyed painting this series; each painting transported me right back to that spot, to that time. Where we were having lunch and when we stood up, our emergency blanket that we'd been sitting on took flight, and my husband chased it as the wind danced around with it, poor Kenny post holing it in snow up to his knees! (we did catch it - no littering in the park!!) Or the hoodoos that sometimes felt like we were in the game Candy Land! My absolute favorite though was the amphitheater. This was such an incredible landscape to tackle and I'm so proud of how it turned out. The amphitheater painting sold (of course!) but the others are still available, as well as prints, note cards, and coasters.

If you've never seen Bryce in snow, put it on your bucket list!