… whilst on my walk this morning, I saw two kids heading across the fairway with the older one pulling hi little brother on a sled … fast forward about two minutes and they are gleefully sledding down a gentle slope between fairways and making happy noises! I remember many a day like that when I was a kid in Minneapolis … the sheer joy of being alive and doing something fun. The sleds we had with metal runners would not have worked in conditions like today, but a flattened cardboard box worked great! Great memories for me and memories…
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Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Inspection” showing Dec. 23-29 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Jeremy Pope received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for his leading role in “The Inspection”. In Elegance Bratton’s deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he…
Arizona News – If you’ve ever wanted to take a good look at a forest thinning project up close, pay a visit to the Arizona Capitol Christmas Tree this holiday season. The Douglas Fir, displayed in the lobby of the Arizona State Capitol, was harvested by the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management off the Mogollon Rim Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest as part of the Roosevelt Good Neighbor Authority Project. The tree had been tagged for removal to accomplish the project’s objectives. The Roosevelt GNA Project is part of the larger Cragin Watershed Protection Project, which plans to…
… sometimes it is good to have a change in pace and shoot subjects that you have ignored for a while. So, I’m beginning to shoot some landscape type photos down at the lake and also shooting the small objects like the Nandida berries in our front yard this morning … the bushes were infused with snow. The photo above was taken part way up Castle Hot Springs bay from the launch ramp on the NW side of the lake. In the foreground on the left side is what remains of a peninsula that came out from the east shore…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Broadway Rising” showing Dec. 23-29 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Directed by Emmy-nominated Amy Rice, “Broadway Rising” is an inspiring documentary that chronicles the reopening of Broadway after the COVID-19 shutdown. The film turns the spotlight on the community and highlights their stories of doubt, anxiety, perseverance and ultimately triumph on the long-awaited opening night. There is no New York without Broadway. It’s both a landmark and a community, an industry and a people, making magic in a dark theater, eight times a…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Each expression is a one off, a precious once in any lifetime formation and yet, we aren’t the data points that live within. What we are is unending metamorphosis. We are infinite aliveness – the entirety if there was such a thing. All visible expressions – what we call you, me, and a world — are reflections of the blueprints, mirroring the degree of alignment with what actually is, the actuality of life. The gradation of alignment reflects the expression’s actual direct experience of life, the emptiness of resistance, the innocent simplicity of awareness. We are…
… after untold millennia man has created wings whereby we can mimic the flight of all those beautiful creatures that inhabit earth and have been designed for flight, be they large or the tiniest of insects. While we can duplicate and in some ways go far beyond what nature has created we do not come close to the versatility and maneuverability of natures creatures. The shot above was taken at Sampley airfield near Aquila when I was descending to do a high speed low pass across the field before pulling up and flying an abbreviated pattern and landing. Next below…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to welcome back 5-time Grammy-nominee David Arkenstone for a very special holiday performance — “A Winter’s Eve Concert with David Arkenstone & Friends” — live on stage at the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Friday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. Join David Arkenstone for an enchanting evening filled with joyful holiday spirits, virtuoso musicianship, and some of his chart-topping favorites reimagined and performed in exciting new arrangements. David has plenty of surprises in store for this performance, including the debut of some of his recent neo-classical compositions with strings, flutes,…
Arizona News – The Coconino National Forest is beginning to close several higher elevation forest roads throughout the Flagstaff Ranger District due to snow and wet weather. These closures are implemented for both the safety of visitors and to protect forest roads during inclement weather. Main forest roads along U.S. Highway 180 are expected to close where snow has fallen. The closures are expected to be completed by Friday. Forest Service personnel will be patrolling forest roads starting today and continuing through Friday to alert the public to this pending change. Forest road closures will include: Along US Highway 180 -…
… mornings in the neighborhood provide a lot of beauty which really gets the day off to a good start … after the morning calisthenics and walk it is time to relax with a hot cup of coffee on the back deck … above is a photo of a bobcat walking beside the cart path as he comes up towards our home, backlit by foliage on the edge of the arroyo … below and looking down the path towards the 10th green of Oak Creek Country Club, the golf course is being given a thorough wetting before play comes through.…
Sedona News – The National Theatre of London continues its new season with its acclaimed new production of “Much Ado About Nothing” showing in Sedona on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. The Sedona International Film Festival hosts the big screen premiere at its Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romantic comedy of sun, sea and mistaken identity. The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for…
Sedona News – Experience the magic of a crisp winter day in an imaginary candyland carnival on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Posse Grounds Pavilion. Families and kids of all ages are invited to the city’s first-ever Winter Play Day. Attractions will include inflatables and rides, food trucks and interactive vendor displays. Youth performances will take place throughout the day at the Pavilion stage. Face painting, food and drinks will be available for purchase. Entry to Winter Play Day is free, but for children over six a $5 Unlimited Ride Pass will be…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Everything is energy, is consciousness, the body included. Experiencing is the energetic patterns of perception and sensation, thought and feeling. Experiencing … energy … consciousness … awareness, there is only isness., only this that is. Well that is … if you don’t take ‘is’ too seriously. There is no body separate from mind, no mind or body separate from spirit, no experience separate from the experiencer. What happens at any level happens at all levels – body, mind, world, spirit. They are different appearances in experiencing, but not separate. What happens to me, happens to you,…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “White Noise” showing Dec. 16-22 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. The world premiere of Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” received a warm reception as the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival. The Venice gala audience gave the film a three-minute standing ovation, with big cheers for lead Adam Driver in particular. The film — adapted from Don DeLillo’s breakout novel — tells the colorful and eccentric tale of university professor and well-respected expert in Hitler studies, Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), and his…
By Katie Hamilton Sedonakind “Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” So says the unofficial motto of the U. S. Postal Service. “…Rain nor sleet”…no, but being short five to seven delivery people in a small community like Sedona, yes. If your mail has been delivered late..or not at all recently, that is probably the reason! The post office is short a number of delivery people. Those currently delivering our mail are all now working seven days a week, delivering mail until 10:00 at night. Some delivery people…