The fall and winter season in Cedar City, Utah has been a very dry season in 2024/2025. There was an early snow in the fall which took a toll on trees, breaking down branches all around town because it was a wet and heavy snowfall (around 6 inches). But there has been very little rain or snow since then. There have been some very cool temperatures though, which have made everyone aware that fall and winter have not passed us by. The waterfalls in Cedar City have made that clear! Here is a photo of the first fall on Coal Creek in beautiful Cedar Canyon.

The next water fall, around a quarter of a mile downstream. has also been heavily coated with ice.

Last summer (2024) our grandsons from Huron, South Dakota worked at damming up the water of Coal Creek not far from Dave and Jan’s house

They probably wouldn’t be interested in trying to dam up the creek as it has been in recent weeks!

Farther down the creek, near the Cedar City Visitors’ Center there is a third waterfall which has been icy.

And a fourth waterfall on Coal Creek has displayed lots of ice as well closer to Interstate 15 to the west.

One more small frozen waterfall can be found along the East Bench Bike Trail which Dave often enjoys riding. Some local boys decided that they would explore it up close and personal one recent cool day.

Many of the citizens of Cedar City are praying that the dry winter weather will soon produce some healthy rain and snow. Our recent studies in the book of Genesis have provided reason for encouragement in the Lord’s promise to Noah and his family as recorded at the end of the worldwide Noahic flood (Genesis 8:22): “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, and summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.” It is encouraging that, even in the current dry spell, Coal Creek is still flowing through town because of the Lord’s ingenuity in creating the “plumbing system” on earth!