talking about the land

Salt Lake City is a pretty good place for a conference about The Land, although, this being a conference about the novel, no one has yet - at least not in my hearing - mentioned Spiral Jetty.  There's a tiny sliver of the salt lake visible to the right of the picture: this is the bridge that you cross to get from the tram station to the part of the campus where the conference is being held, with snow covered mountains as the backdrop.  As you can see, spring hasn't quite arrived yet.