Since I am certain that I have seen this butte before during one of my Google Earth drives – probably through southeast Utah – I have titled it the Temporarily Lost Butte, confident that I will find it again. And yet I have just tried again and failed. I looked mostly to the south of Moab, Utah. That is where I imagined that I saw it earlier. But now I have come upon so many buttes that resemble this one that my hide-and-seek is like confused by the sprite or hobgoblin or leprechan who has tied ribbons around every tree in the forest. Still I will stay with “temporarily” and expect to come upon it again and learn its confident name.

