We had just hiked to the top of a formation that gives one a 360° view of Sedona and the mountains. We enjoyed a picnic lunch, rested a bit more and then started down. It was late afternoon, thus our lengthened shadows.  I love how Martin looks like a cowboy in this photo with his Tilley hat securely on his head. I’m wearing one of my hiking skirts; my Tilley hat looks like a sun bonnet. We have been pioneers of a sort (if you r…e…a…l…l…y stretch the metaphor.) Who would have ever thought a boy from Brooklyn and a girl from Georgia would find themselves joyously hiking in red rock country day after day?

But we have. And we do.