Thursday to Sedona

One of the places that we wanted to visit from Cottonwood was Sedona, so Thursday was the day we decided to go there.

A friend had recommended Javelina Cantina for lunch...

We got a table on the patio...

And enjoyed our lunch!

The small shopping center it was in had a number of art stores... one had this "stone rocking bench" outside...

There were views of the red rocks too.

The art gallery also had these glass sculptures that would turn in the wind -- this one is the "Glassinator".

You can own it for $9500...

Check out its moves:

There were a lot of these glass wind-movement sculptures:

I suggested to Carl that we could mount one on top of Gracie and we thought that it would really go around in the breeze as we drove down the road... until we went under a low overpass...

We decided to go to the Sedona Airport - I had remembered an overlook of the city from there -- when we got there, we found that there was a charge for parking, but we decided to go ahead and pay the fee because it looked like the views were very nice...

Looking out over Sedona

Obligatory selfie

We had been planning to drive to a trailhead to take a hike, but realized that a trail headed out from the parking area where we had paid to park to see the overlook of the city, and decided to take it instead...

Appropriately named "Sedona View Trail"

There were beautiful views over Sedona

On our way up to Sedona, we had talked about jobs that we were glad that we had not had to do... Carl saw these guys working way up high -- and that is a job he *had* done and not liked at all!

I don't know if you can see that there is a guy in the cherry-picker basket, but there is also one on the ladder that goes up the side of the pole. Carl said that working from the basket was much preferred to climbing the pole.

The trail was well-worn, but there were lots of rocks that made tripping hazards...

Especially if your attention got drawn to the beauty across Sedona!

I zoomed in my camera on this one to try to get a picture of what appeared to be a hole through the rock...

I don't know whether it has a particular name or not...

We enjoyed our trip to Sedona!