This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers from my photo files including an appropriate oldie for the holidays.
Pam and John chose #8967. Camping during January in crazy Quartzsite with 1000s of your new best friends, and a dozen or so you know and like. So fun I plan to return in 2017 to gather with Grand Canyon friends and hopefully the third Blogfest. Let me know if you’ll be camping in the desert near Q.
Mary Lou chose #1040. A special sight, a sundog seems so prominent yet faint at the same time, and difficult to photograph. Taken through the RV window above the Weaver Mountains in Yarnell, Arizona 1-30-12.
Diane and Nigel chose #4442. I love learning from interpretive signs and take photos of them for later possible ID. I didn’t see any frogs while visiting West Coast National Park, South Africa although I did see a lot of birds in wetlands so maybe they saw me. Wonder if they have signs for ID.
Jean chose #1944. A barren landscape called the Badlands in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. Yet if you walk into the twisty canyons the sculpted rock is good, not bad.
Bibi chose #2017, “which I hope will be a better year for the world.” What better to do when stuck in traffic at a road construction site but take photos. I believe this is when a Huge flash flood took out one lane of pavement on SR89A below the Vermilion Cliffs in 2011 and left behind garage-size boulders.
Sherry and David chose #2262, one of two in a lousy panorama. They are enjoying more colorful sunsets, and rises, daily in Florida than this soft pastel in Camdeboo National Park, South Africa. Taken on Valentine’s Day 2013 that we forgot about until the end of the day.
Shane chose #4754. In South Africa a lot of animals run free even at the Wild Spirit Backpackers Lodge right outside the kitchen window.
Yogi had random dot org choose #9362. Called “Place of great noise” for a good reason when the flow is high like I experienced at Augrabies Falls, South Africa.
Donna chose #347 a panorama. If visiting the North Rim Grand Canyon don’t miss out on the Cliff Spring trail, one mile round trip through forest, along cliff edges and ultimately to the slow drip of water where animals frequently gather.
Patti chose #60, “Another leap by 10.” Takes us back to a 1983 Christmas in Tonasket, Washington at my craft and yarn store decorated with hand-made ornaments.
Sallie chose #1209. As she is on the way to a winter home in Florida I feel like she’ll soon be seeing crashing waves. Wonder if they look different than the waves I watched at Storms River Mouth, South Africa back in 2013.
My choice from going out to play on the RR tracks for the first December sunset. Please don’t worry as not many trains come through this way and you can hear the horn toot four times for many miles. Makes me dream to take a journey. Have you traveled by train?
Please join in next week by leaving a number between 1 and 9999 in your comment below. Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories.
Do you have a favorite this week?
Once again, Gaelyn, your photo of the sunset over the tracks is spectacular! Have a wonderful weekend. Jo
Thanks Jo. Sure is a good location for sunsets.
Great photos- my favorites this week are of the sun dog and the sunset over the railroad.
Please put me down for 1292 for next week.
Thanks Mary Lou. Have you down for #1292.
Love, love my photo choice!! Desert, mountains, rocks, and my beloved saguaro!! Can’t wait to return in Feb! Someday it would be nice to attend the Blogfest, but we never seem to be close enough.
#9182
I figured the desert might be a tease for you. One of these years you’ll make it to Blogfest. Have you down for #9182.
A number(?) of solo train trips from Douglas, AZ to Ontario, CA at age of less than 10 – summer vacation with grandparents.
Then in 1998 I rode trains from Miami, FL to Washington, DC. Stayed a week and then Washington to Toledo, OH where a friend picked my up. Stayed with him for a few days and then Ann Arbor, MI to Denver, CO where I got off and stayed at a hotel overnight. Last leg was Denver to Sacramento, CA. A great way to travel!
You make train travel sound fun. Only tried one trip from Chicago to southern IL and I think the train went backwards more than forwards.
I loved the photo of the waves crashing around the rocks.
Next week: #357
Thanks Donna. I could listen and watch the waves for a long time. Have you down for #357.
The sunspot is my favorite. 1870
We will be at KOFA volunteering. Quartzsite’s backdoor
Have to try for a meet up.
My pick for the week definitely fits the spirit of the season! And, 1983 is the year our son was born, so a good year!
I think my favorite this week though is the picture of the train tracks, it’s hauntingly pretty. Just something about trains, right?
While in Europe last year we had a 10-day Eurail Pass and traveled through German, France, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland by train and we loved it! I love just gazing out the window and watching the world whoosh by.
Next week: another 10 digit leap to #70.
I am drawn to those RR track and have only once traveled by train any distance and we went backwards more than forwards. I wasn’t impressed. You get #70 next week.
I commented on this earlier and I thought it had worked!!!! I love the waves at Storms River. Interesting the sign for the frogs, I can never identify them! At our village in Wantage in the UK, there was a sign on one of the roads saying please be careful frogs crossing here! They always seemed to pick the same place at certain times of the year. 4443 for next week please. Will try to keep up while away but no promises. Have a good weekend Diane
Thanks for trying again, I do appreciate your comments but don’t worry about keeping up while you’re away. Joan and I saw a frog invasion in Kruger once. Have you down for #4443.
WOW your last picture is fabulous! Just love it and our panorama. The water at the Place of Great Noise and at Storms River Mouth looks so powerful in your great pictures. Wonderful picture of the sundog. I’ve never seen one. Sure would like to be in Quartzite and at Blogfest. I’d like to have 8122 for next time.
Thanks Sherry. The sun is setting right at the end of the tracks lately. Won’t last so I’ve tried to take advantage. I’m surprised you’ve never seen a sundog but it takes cold atmospheric air. Would LOVE to see you at blogfest. Have you down for #8122.
The photo you picked for me was my favorite. So next week I’mm going with 9361, just one less than this week.
Those falls were an amazing site. So next week we’ll see what you get with #9361.
You’re putting those train tracks to good use!
My horse is very cute. The clotheslines and colored clothespins add a warm, friendly touch to the shot. It’s very nice.
#7742 for me this week, please.
Yes, especially as the sun is currently setting right in their line. The clotheslines is what made the scene. Have you down for #7742.
Beautiful, Gaelyn! The train tracks reminded me of a train trip from Chicago to Glacier. As we were looking out the window in the middle of Montana, my friend commented, “I think I know what ‘yonder’ means now.”
3073 for me, please
Thanks Anne. That must have been quite a train ride. I love ‘yonder’ and believe your friend was spot on. Have you down for #3073.
Here I am, courtesy of Internet Explorer, since I can’t seem to leave a comment when I go through Chrome. I like Shane’s horse best, and your railroad tracks. Next week, put me down for # 635, the time of my flight to the US this coming Monday….too early….
OMG, is the sun up that early? 😉 #635 for you. Safe journey. And thanks for using IE. I’m a Foxfire girl.
Those crashing waves are beautiful and remind me more of the Oregon Coast than here — Florida oceans are more calm. (I really like the crashing waves better.) The beach is not my main reason to be in Florida.
We traveled across the country on Amtrak back when we planning to buy our first live-in-full-time RV. Bill wanted to see the manufacturing plants for the ones we had narrowed it down to. I just wanted to go on a train trip. We met both goals — had a great trip, It’s really a fun way to travel — I just wish it weren;t so expensive. Came back home and bought one that was made in Yakima Washington (at a plant we’d visited before the trip, being relatively close to home)…. but then he knew for sure that it was the best buy for us.
So a train trip to FL ultimately got you to live there at least part of the year. That’s a long ride but I’ll bet it was an interesting way to see the country.