… I love this place and every once in a while it is fun to imagine what the Sedona area looked like before it was Sedona … just another nameless place on the map, but it had been visited and made home by the Sinagua for hundreds of years, perhaps a thousand years. I spent a couple of hours this afternoon restoring the photo above to what it must have looked like back then … all traces of humanity have been removed!
I worked this photo up in 48″ x 24″ format if you are interested in one that size or smaller. I’ve just about given up on an online portfolio for the website … it takes too much time. Maybe I’ll just put up a portfolio of the email photos? Some day 🙂
In 1876 an early Anglo settler, James John Thompson, came here and received a grant under the Homestead Act of 1862 for property up Oak Creek Canyon which is now known as Indian Gardens. He was the first person to settle in the area.There was still a Yavapai garden on the property which was producing and is to this day. It is outside the city limits of Sedona, so others who settled in what is now the city of Sedona are credited with being the first settlers.
Fascinating reads on the history are available: Sedona Heritage Museum and HMdb.org the Historical marker database.
Below is a photo that I took of a Bobcat in the back yard waiting patiently for a vole to make its appearance from the mound of dirt on the far right side of the photo. They are among the creatures that keep the varmint population in our neighborhoods down … we may not think of it very frequently, but there is an order in nature which tries to keep things in balance.
A friend and neighbor saw a Coopers Hawk make a kill of a rabbit a few days ago … of course it was way to big to carry off, so he spent the day perched on the rabbit feeding on it … the next day the rabbit was gone and likely a Bobcat finished it off.
Into another new day and week … choose to have wonderful days … keep breathing, be kind and smile!
Cheers,
Ted
Love some one—in God’s name love some one—
for this is the bread of the inner life, without which
a part of you will starve and die; and though you feel
you must be stern, even hard, in your life of affairs,
make for yourself at least a little corner, somewhere
in the great world, where you may unbosom and be
kind.
Love Some One by Max Ehrmann
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The easiest way to reach Mr. Grussing is by email: ted@tedgrussing.com
In addition to sales of photographs already taken Ted does special shoots for patrons on request and also does air-to-air photography for those who want photographs of their airplanes in flight. All special photographic sessions are billed on an hourly basis.
Ted also does one-on-one workshops for those interested in learning the techniques he uses. By special arrangement Ted will do one-on-one aerial photography workshops which will include actual photo sessions in the air.
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