I have lived in Sedona for 10 years, and one of things I love most about it, is the changing seasons, without extremes.  I was in Ashland Oregon 3 weeks ago where my daughters and grandson live and it looked unbelievable with the fall colors.

The trees dance with color, and their movement with the wind was magical.  Sedona is magical in a completely different way. Sedona doesn’t have the extreme changing colors, but it also doesn’t have the extreme cold or hot.  If you drive down the Oak Creek Canyon in the fall, you get this feeling that everything in the world is okay.  The trees showing off their colors, the smell of camp fires, and the crisp, clean air.  The days are warm and the nights are perfect, maybe a lite sweater. It’s even beautiful when all the leaves have fallen.

I lived in Ashland for 11 months before I moved to Sedona, and as beautiful as Ashland is, Sedona has become more than a home to me.  Besides being totally breath taking, it holds me in a blanket of safety.   I have never felt like I was home until Sedona.  I lived in Phoenix for 33 years, and I never felt connected to the place or the community.

I was talking with Anne a gal at a party on Saturday night and we were talking about how Sedona either embraces you or unfortunately spits you out. I have seen many people spit out, it’s not pretty. I myself feel very lucky that it allowed me to stay.  What really seems to be the ongoing thread is that, Sedona brings up the issues you need to work on, if you work on them, you’re in, if you don’t  “toowee”.

It really allows me to live in a place that has 4 seasons without being brutalized by any of them, all of them are mild. No 20 below, yet, no 110 degrees.  So, I guess I’m going to stay for awhile, as long as Sedona will let me or I keep working on my stuff.

Where do you live and what do you love about it most, and how does it make you feel?