Nighttime in Sedona

Wowee-
It is BLACK,BLACK,BLACK!!! Pretty much as soon as the sun goes down, it's pitch black. There are NO streetlights-they've been "outlawed" & not many buildings w/ lights on. While driving, if you turned off your headlights, you'd crash cuz it's just black nothingness. The cool thing though is MILLIONS os stars come out! I knew New Mexico is a big star gazing place, but so is this. It's beautiful.

Last night, I saw the grandest magic trick I've ever seen in my life. You know how David Copperfield makes huge things disappear, like cars & trains?
Well...remember how I was going on & on yesterday about the drive up w/ all the amazing Red Rock Country? I mean HUGE rock mountains are everywhere-it's so outstanding. Well, at night they completely & utterly VANISH. It's like darkness drapes a huge, black veil over the landscape or more like hangs a black curtain in front of everything to conceal it.
It was so unbelievable to have seen such AWEsome beauty driving in, then to have it all disappear at night. You can't see a darn thing. Not even a shadow. It kinda reminds me of something I heard about fear. For instance, you could be driving on the edge of a cliff or canyon, with no guardrails & feel incredibly afraid. BUT-if you were driving the same road in darkness, not knowing you were on the edge of a cliff- there would be no fear! You'd have no idea that there was something there to harm you or be afraid of. Isn't that a neat concept? Darkness can camoflauge what exists or make you believe there is something there that doesn't exist. Like monsters in the closet.
But in Sedona, at nighttime, it's almost like a hidden secret-these majestic Red Rocks...that only those of us who know they exist can smile a secret smile & know they are still there.