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Zick Goes To Sedona!

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 5:07

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Every once in awhile…no, every day I am reminded that I may be the luckiest person alive.

I have two healthy kids who are sweet and considerate and smart. I live in a beautiful place that I love fiercely. Everything on me works, and nothing hurts. I can see, walk and run.

Everything I love most is free.

And I get to work up talks about the things I love, and go to cool places and meet awesome people and give those talks.

When I’ve discharged my duties the best that I can, I allow myself to hike around looking at landscapes and wildlife.

That’s not a blue jay.

That’s a western scrub jay!

That’s not an Eastern cottontail.

That’s a desert cottontail! Lookit those giant ears! The better to radiate heat with, my dear.

Zick goes to Sedona, Arizona!! Aieee!! And this was my first Sedona sunset. I will never be the same.

About a year ago, Ross and Beth Kingsley Hawkins of the International Hummingbird Society asked me to give a couple of talks at the Fourth Annual Sedona Hummingbird Festival, July 31-August 2, 2015. It took me about ten minutes to scrabble around my calendar and say HELL YEAH!!

I had always wanted to see the famed red rocks of Sedona. And a hummingbird festival, there??

I had NO idea what I was in for. It was so much more wonderful than I could have imagined.

The blistering heat of Phoenix’s low desert slowly fell away as I drove two hours north.

“Monsoon season” had arrived, and with it a bit of rain and a lot of spectacular clouds. Pardon these through the windscreen shots. Couldn’t help myself.

The mountains rose up before me, and with it my adrenaline. I was SO ready to see this area.

Highway 17′s OMG moment, when you climb, then behold the Verde Valley for the first time. I actually got a little vertigo and slowed way down. Heights. Beautiful heights.

When I got to my destination, the Summit Resort in Sedona, the monsoon skies just blew me away.

I rooted around on Yelp because I was hungry, got the drift of area restaurants (some great, some not so great, and all expensive) and hied me to the Safeway, where for $50 (less than the price of a typical dinner out) I bought a week’s worth of the kind of stuff I like to eat. With a fridge and a microwave in my fabbo room, I was in business! I didn’t want to waste any of my precious time waiting for a waitron to bring me a menu or forget to bring my check. I wanted to stuff my gob and get back out in the red rock desert. So that’s what I did.

Then I hurried back out into the beauty that surrounded me.

I’d been up for about 20 hours, having left home at 2:40 AM, but seeing a humble house finch against the backdrop where it evolved and so richly belongs knocked me flat.

You see this sky? This sky’s in love with you…

Julie Zickefoose is a painter and writer who lives on a nature sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio. She is the author of Letters from Eden and The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds With Common Birds, due in spring 2012. http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com

Source: http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com/2015/08/zick-goes-to-sedona.html

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