HughHarris

The Postmasters Wife – Sedona

Yes that’s right, Sedona, AZ is named after the first Postmasters wife – Sedona Schnelby, T.C.’s wife. There was no postoffice in what was known as Indian Garden or Oak Creek at the time so T.C. applied to the U.S. Postal Service to start a Post Office and the place needed a name and his first two submissions were rejected so on his brothers advise he turned to his wife and asked if she wanted a town named after her. It was said she was a beauty and very hospitable which is very fitting. The Red Rock country holds great beauty!

Yesterday, 7/8 we hiked the West Fork trail in Oak Creek Canyon yesterday about 4.5 miles. The trail follows a stream back up into the canyon.

At sunset we hiked up the Summit trail that overlooks most of Sedona for a beautiful view of a brief storm that often blows through Northern AZ this time of year (they call it their Monsoon season). With some refreshing beverages and some Pepperidge Farm Macadamia Nut cookies we marveled at the beauty of God’s creation from high atop Summit butte.

Today 7/9 we hiked Boynton Canyon trail. Boynton is a box canyon with a trail of 2.8 miles making the round trip 5.6. We hiked at 10:30 am and the day was already beginning to heat up. About half way into the canyon the large pine & oak trees begin to cover the trail & with the summer breezes the hike was cool enough to keep us going. Some claim that Boynton Canyon is one of the key locations for the “New Age Vortexes”. Not to sure about that one. I did recall what was said to Job:

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
⁵ Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
⁶ On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
⁷ while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels^[a]shouted for joy?

⁸ “Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
⁹ when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
¹⁰ when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
¹¹ when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?

¹² “Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
¹³ that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
¹⁴ The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
¹⁵ The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.

¹⁶ “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
¹⁷ Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
¹⁸ Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.

July 10, 2011 - Posted by hughharrisfca | Uncategorized