Film festival...just briefly...

So far during the film festival the greatest complaint I heard mostly from locals is how bad the traffic is and there are a few people who would just love for them to be gone...yet they "the locals" seem to forget that they bring a ton of cashflow with them from other places with bookings, hotel stays, tours, sundry items such as film, groceries.  So your complaining becauuuuuuse?  However, 

no matter how hard you try or how badly you want it you can never make some people happy...

On the other hand many of the tourists appear to be having the time of their lives...

So go figure...

peace out for now...

Cliff  

Here's a link I found that's current ...an interview with Joan Collins the actress...

Looks like I need to bring my camcorder...if this is all so far...Click here:  Joan Collins Interview ...Sedona film festival 2013

Morning has broken

Morning in Sedona after a snow on February 22nd 2013

Snow day Winter wonderland in Sedona

Another spectacular snow day for photographs in Sedona, always a mystical experience...

 Cathedral Rock

 Chimney rock in mist and snow

 Courthouse butte with Highway 179 in Foreground.

 

Montezuma's Well in Northern Arizona

My friend Krash and I went to Montezuma's well on my birthday (Feb. 7th.)  This is a relatively deep natural water well, actual depth is speculative.  There seems to be several answers on this.  However, the vents that feed the Well are between 40 and 50 feet.  This is actually, well a sinkhole with natural water and has been an oasis for centuries.  The sinagua indians inhabited the area and fabricated stone dwellings in the rock on the west face of the Well.  The bottom has been measured at 55 feet but with the way the water continuously flows can be much deeper under the sand and pressure.

 View of well facing east.

 Detail of some of the craggy rocks on the south end of the well.

Ducks swimming amongst the web of algae plants

Dwelling where the Sinagua indians lived more than 1000 years ago...

View facing North East.

More Detail of the rock dwellings

Sacred mound in background just before the ridge.  where the Sinagua did ceremony.

Beaver Creek Area where the well leeches into.

Huge Sycamore tree that grows nearly horizontally at the base, then goes vertical

Base of Sycamore.

Munds Trail to Hangover trail ...

The Munds Trail is spectacular with views from outta this world, but then most of Sedona looks as though it was justapositioned and projected as a halogram from another planet.

Many happy trails to you!!!