Sedona

 I always enjoy looking at the travel posts of blog friends-- it is vicarious travel for me & so interesting to see places people visit.  So I thought I would post some of my recent past travels.   Last February BB and I visited our friends in AZ.  Our friends drove us north to Sedona to see the rock formations.  It is always sunny in AZ -- except the day we went to Sedona! It was rainy and cold when we got there so we decided to take the shorter of the jeep tours down into one of the valleys.  Luckily, it cleared as we were out so we had some good views.  Sedona is known for its beautiful red rock formations and the crystals embedded in the rock.  Many old western movies were made in Sedona and in Monument Valley because the landscape is so dramatic and the colors are so vibrant. I didn't get as may pictures as I would have liked because the weather cooperated only at the end!

 

 

Below are the naturally occurring crystals in the rock -- Sedona used to be a big New Age hangout, but that seems to have waned somewhat.  

 

 Our guide pointed out the agave plants -- these are the plants that provide us with margaritas!  So they are obviously very important.   They only bloom once in their lives, and after they bloom they die.

 

 

Here we are -- you can see it's cold as we are all bundled up!  Our friends are on the left and we are on the right. 

 

Several years ago BB and I traveled to Monument Valley with Nana and Daddy Bill -  I'll have to post some of those pictures some time.