"Shapes - of things before my eyes,
Just teach me to despise;
Will time make men more wise?
Here - within my lonely frame,
My eyes just hurt my brain.
But will it seem the same?
Come tomorrow ..."
The back-country northwest of Sedona is a hiker's dreamscape, full of secret canyons, towering cliffs, rocky spires and natural arches.
Here, three hoodoos and a spire seemed to leap out at us from above the
northern wall of the mesmerizing Long Canyon Trail.
April 13, 2011