You know you're nearing Sedona when you begin seeing the red rocks.
Chimney Rock, Lizard's Head, and to the right--Capitol--
Capitol Butte
Lost Wilson Mountain and Wilson Mountain
Capitol Dome and Coffee Pot Rock
Panorama from Chimney Rock to Coffee Pot
Ship Rock
Camel's Head
Gloria and Herb Baum--my hosts
Jerome--once a prosperous copper-mining town, now a ghost town.
Mining in the mountains ended in the 1930's--by 1950's this was a ghost town.
Rock at the Douglas Mansion Museum
Once a hospital, now the Jerome Grand Hotel.
Cement plant
Jerome Grand Hotel is built right against the red rocks
The Jerome Grand Hotel
An overview from the Grand Hotel --the Douglas Museum upper left, the Methodist Church in the Center in front of the mine
Connor Hotel in Jerome
Yes! Support Hillary!
Past Jerome--Overlook
Copper mining,
Wonderful textures in the rocks and greenery
Like an Asian ink painting
Tuzigoot ruins
Herb Baum at Tuzigoot
In the ruins at Tuzigoot
With Herb and Gloria at Tuzigoot
Gloria and Herb Baum
View across the copper filings fields
Tuzigoot
Inside Tuzigoot
Courthouse Butte (left) and Bell Rock (middle)?
With Marie Baum--we watched the Academy Awards at her house
Marie Baum's painting of the red rocks of Sedona
V-Bar-V Ranch petroglyphs
Montezuma's Well
Cliff-dwellings above Montezuma's Well
Cliff dwellings at Montezuma's Well
White sycamore by the outflow from Montezuma's well
Rocky shore of the Verde River by Montezuma's Well
The irrigation ditch from Montezuma's well
Courthouse Butte and Bell Rock
Behind the Chapel of the Holy Cross
View of the Monstrous House from the Chapel of the Holy Cross
Inside the Chapel of the Holy Cross
Outside the Chapel of the Holy Cross
Palatki
Palatki ruins
Palatki Ruins
The trail to the ruins
Palatki ruins--the Sinagua Indians
Hiding out in the ruins
View from the Palatki ruins
Looking at the Palatki Pictographs
Palatki Pictographs
Wonderful textures and shadows
Palatki pool
At Palatki
Did the Indians use this path?
The Church in Tlaquepaque
Church and Cross in Tlaquepaque, Sedona
Coptic Crosses in a shop in Tlaquepaque
Tlaquepaque looks like Mexico, doesn't it?
We went to all these places around Sedona
Montezuma's Castle
A closer look at Montezuma's Castle
More ruins at Montezuma's Castle
The Verde River beside Montezuma's Castle--the Sinagua Indians farmed alongside the river
Gloria and Herb were so kind to me during my visit--they showed me all there was to see in Sedona
What a great tree on the Verde River
How the Indians lived inside the cliff dwellings in Montezuma's Castle
Oak Creek Canyon
Snow had fallen in Oak Creek Canyon
Checking out the Indian Crafts at Oak Creek Canyon
Oak Creek
Snow in Oak Creek Canyon
Look at the road Gloria drove to bring us up here!
Herb and Gloria
Here we are
This rock from some ruin is one of a number of Indian petroglyphs that Frank Lloyd Wright's disciples brought down to place at Taliesin West.