Sedona, AZ

Thursday morning we left Needles for Sedona Az. on the way we stopped at:

The Dinesphere, often called the Golf Ball House, is a 40 foot in diameter geodesic sphere. It was built in 1976 as the Dinesphere nightclub and restaurant for a land development project. The Dinesphere never actually opened and the company went bankrupt around 1981. Around 1981, new owners bought it and spent about seven years converting the building into their three-story house. There is now a convenience store on the property with a few other spaceship sculptures next to it. The son was at the store and said that they are thinking of opening it to the public. we would love to see the inside.

Our first snow since Nov…

Eric is having a hard time giving up the shorts.  It is about 32 degs and light snow…

beautiful views, imagine if the sun was out!

we stopped about every 10-20 minutes to enjoy the views..

finally got to our hotel and met up with the gang for pre dinner snacks

then off to dinner

the gang

Ed and Helga Westell

Roberta and John Gaskill

Us

Eric’s Cesar salad and my linguini and clams  all good!

Friday: we began our day at Red Rock State Park for a 2+ mile hike on the Eagle Nest trail, beautiful scenery and two new birds!

 

off to Oak canyon creek to see the Bell Rock Formation and Court house butte

time to go to Up town Sedona for a walk around

cute javalinas

beautiful sculptures

me and a new friend

we are thinking of starting a band…  need a name

the sun was in and out most of the day (mostly out) but when it came out oh so beautiful

time for our jeep tour to the Vortex and beautiful canyon sites. (one guy (Lloyd) from Canada joined us)

time for a bite to eat

prickly pear fries

vegetable pot pie

mac and cheese with sirloin tips

bison meatloaf

bison burger

all was very good, everyone cleaned their plates!  great day with great friends!

Saturday: Eric and I headed back to Red Rock state park for a 9 am bird walk.  we seen one new bird… 

western scrub jay (not new)

very good group, John the leader, Gene his friend, Peggy the naturalist and Lois her friend

this is Peg’s favorite tree.  when they first put the trail in the workers asked for a chain saw to cut the limb, the ranger in charge said “dig out the trail, no cutting this tree!”

Gene told us this little ditty: Alice Algae and Freddy Fungus took a Lichen to each other but now their marriage in on the rocks!

can you see the “A”’s on this tree?  it is the Arizona Alder

Met back up with Roberta and John (Ed was feeling under the weather and stayed at the hotel).  First a little session at the casino (was not friendly to any of us).  we stopped at

a very cute chapel with a fabulous view point

and now its time to eat.. 

after eating we walked around the town for a bit before Roberta and I went to a Tarot card reading!  Our reader was very good and it was great fun.  Life is good!

Sedona is a great place to visit. lots of hiking, food and sites to see and of course tours. We might be back some day!

thanks to the Gaskills and Westells for a great couple of days in Sedona.