There is an eagle-like royalty in the fierce desert morning.

"There was a certain magnificence in the high-up day of the desert, a certain eagle-like royalty. In the magnificent fierce morning of the desert one sprang awake. Never is the light more pure and overweening than there, arching with a royalty almost cruel over the hollow, uptilted world."

D.H.Lawrence 

Photos: (Top) Sunrise at Mesa Arch; (Middle) Pinyon Pine and La Sal Mountains; (Bottom) Looking out over the landscape from Island in the Sky. All three photos were taken at Canyonlands National Park, UT, November 30 - December 1, 2014