Gayle lead us through yoga this morning and we felt quite refreshed after our hike yesterday, my back and legs appreciated the stretchs. Working mostly legs and back muscles she seemed to know we needed it.
After a hardy granola breakfast we again headed off to paint. This time choosing a creek bed which I remembered as slide rock where the kids use the natural terrain to carry them down stream over slippery rocks. Alas the stream this day was reduced to a mear trickle. We painted what we saw while standing in the creekbed on smooth red rocks. Actually it was very pleasant and now that the weather has cooled less stressful. We met one other painter while we were there and it turns out he is a native of Sedona and teaches plein aire painting.
Once again we just missed the afternoon rain storm which came on us just as we were finishing well almot finishing our second painting of the day. I looked up and thought oh oh we're in for it but we packed up and high tailed it down the trail just before it rained like crazy again. One of these times were aren't going to be so lucky.
This evening we went to a Native American Indian talk given by a native American actually a Navajo. Brian Benali, sounds Italian to me but he says no he really is a Navajo and his grandmother calls him crazy or hummingbird. He said she thinks he moves like a hummingbird and he's a bit crazy. Well that about sums him up; he talked a mile a minute and was very informative and we learned a lot in a short time. Did you know that in the Navajo culture the women are the boss? And he said that to the elders in his tribe being called an Indian is not a slur to his people.
After a nice hot tub and writing in this blog its time for bed.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WILL DO TOMORROW........
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