City of Sedona City Manager Karen Osburn invites residents to participate in a new program, called Straight Talk with Karen, in which once a month, they can come to City Hall and sit down with Osburn to discuss any topic of their choice.The goal of the program is to facilitate open office hours so that residents can meet with Osburn on any question, concern, issue or general topic they would like to talk about. “I’m excited to provide this new forum and to engage with residents that I may not otherwise have the opportunity to interact with. I look forward…
Author: Sedona Best
I’ve never had such a great series of shots as I got today, which over about 20 minutes and 600 plus shots covered my time with a Red Tail Hawk near the north end of one of the bays on Lake Pleasant. When I first saw him, it was from a long ways off and he was perched on a cliff overlooking the bay which was about 600′ across to the far shore. The photo above was taken about half a second after he left the perch and cruised out over my head and he continued across the bay dropping…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the award-winning documentary “A Song for Cesar” showing Jan. 14-19 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. History will remember the blood, sweat, and tears shed by late civil-rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez while standing up for American farmworkers. “A Song for Cesar” is offers a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement. The film tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists — including Joan Baez, Maya Angelou, and Carlos Santana, among others — who…
Have you heard of macular degeneration? Learn about this common eye condition at The Sedona Women (“TSW”) program on January 12, 2022 at 10:00a.m. via Zoom. Sedona Optometrist Dr. Kendra Ivy will describe the latest science on this condition and discuss how to keep macular degeneration at bay.Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss among people 50 years and older in the U.S. It can affect the central vision needed for reading and driving and may significantly impact independence. Dr. Kendra Ivy will discuss the causes, symptoms and latest treatments during this important eye health discussion. Dr. Ivy…
Keep Sedona Beautiful will host Desert Botanical Garden’s Wendy Hodgson, on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This event will be held via Zoom. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details.The evening’s topic is titled “Agaves in the Southwestern United States: Discovering Lost Crops Among the Hohokam and Other Pre-Contact Arizona Cultures.”.Ms. Hodgson is the Herbarium Curator Emerita and Senior Research Botanist at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and has extensively researched Sedona’s rare domesticated Agave species.According to Ms. Hodgson, “Researchers have long recognized the importance of Agaves to…
… it was a very good day at Lake Pleasant today if you like eagles … we saw more bald eagles, adults and juveniles than we have seen before and had great opportunities for wonderful shooting most of the day on the lake regardless of where we were. The lake level is up a couple more feet and encounters with the lake bed are becoming fewer.This is a sequence of three photos of a juvenile bald eagle taking off from a tree limb near shore. The total elapsed time for the sequence is only 1/6th of a second … things…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “June Again” showing Jan. 14-19 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.Live again. Love again. In the heartfelt comedy “June Again”, a twist of fate gives family matriarch June (Noni Hazlehurst) a reprieve from a debilitating illness.Much to their amazement, June re-enters the lives of her adult children, Ginny (Claudia Karvan) and Devon (Stephen Curry), and learns that ‘things haven’t gone according to plan’.With limited time but plenty of pluck, she sets about trying to put everything, and everyone, back on track. When her meddling backfires, June…
By Dave MyersWe hope your 2022 is off to a grand start. Maybe you acquired a new Apple product (iPhone 13) and/or related software (IOS 15, Monterey OS) in the past few months and would like to know more about how things work. Any user of Apple products is invited to attend the January 2022 Zoom meeting of the Oak Creek Apples Macintosh User Group (OCAMUG, or OCA, for short). Alan Gore will facilitate a general question-and-answer session. He often covers recent and upcoming trends, as well as bugs and fixes. There is no charge to participate. OCA will continue its monthly virtual/online meetings…
… in flight … beauty that has intrigued mankind since forever … we watch the beauty of birds of all kinds as they wend their way through unseen and unmarked highways in the sky. The photo above is an Osprey that has just launched from his perch on a tree in Lake Pleasant and is on his way to do some grocery shopping … nothing like fresh fish for dinner! And then there is the view … what does it look like to see what they do and without the aid of devices we make we would never experience? Perhaps…