Also from the hometown -- the spiral jetty is back! The level of the Great Salt Lake is low enough that this old earthwork artwork has reemerged.

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And a touch of fine writing surfaces from the Deseret News -- that was unexpected.

"The jetty curls into the lake where the water is an eerie lemonade pink because of algae growth. Nearby are black basalt boulders that apparently tumbled down from the adjacent Promontory Mountains. Across a stretch of driftwood and sagebrush, the boulders meet the lake -- and at that point, with the lake lowering, they are encrusted with dazzling white salt.

"The jetty is exposed at the base, then farther out the boulders lining its sides stick up, white with brilliant salt crystals. As it reaches into deeper lake water, waves break on gleaming white lumps of rock. The pastel lake shades from pinkish into blue. Distant islands in Utah's inland sea, and even more distant mountains on the opposite shores, are a pale purple."