Hazy (and cough-inducing) evidence of the Slide wildfire in Arizzona. Human-caused, by this morning it had covered more than 25 square miles and was 25 percent contained.
Dinner at Sedona’s Heartline Cafe.
Lunch wineSalad and roasted tomato soup (except for two tiny floating marshmallows!)––very fine.Dinner wine at Sedona’s Heatline CafeAchiote- (annatto-) marinated walleye in a tomatillo coulis. I “can’t believe I ate the whole thing”!
Rose at 6:30 this morning, grabbed a coffee and apple and headed out to see if I could find some shortly-after-sunrise vistas on Red Rock Loop Road or Dry Creek Road. But Arizona’s raging Slide Fire (so-called because it started in the Slide Park area near Flagstaff) may take as much as 20,000 acres before it can be extinguished. The conflagration is on a steep, treacherous mountainous incline, so access is sketchy. Combine that with winds and falling rock and there is all too little fire fighters can do. This morning I could hardly make out the vistas because of the density of smoke and haze.
Just outside my balcony at Rouge Hotel & Spa. Note how left arm pushes the column until it leansBraised Pork Kahrabi Ribs (Burgundy Fig Risotto, Garlic Demi with Chef’s Fresh VegetablesPan Seared Salmon (Roasted Tomato Olive Tapenade, Parmesan Risotto, Chef’s Fresh Vegetable Selection and a Lemon Chardonnay Essence)
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