This week’s Foto Friday Fun includes 10 images chosen by readers picking a number out of my photo archives. Just a few real oldies this week along with several more recent memories from the North Rim of Grand Canyon.
Jo chose #10, “It’s the age of our oldest granddaughter, Eryn.” I met Eryn while camping at Monks Cowl in the Drakensburg when she was seven. Jo’s son John, father to Eryn, guided me on a hike into the Draks where we saw these baboons watching us on the way back from our overnight up in the lush green mountains.
Elaine chose #68, “Having just had another birthday roll around, I’ll go with my age this time.” Happy belated Birthday young woman. This crazy quilt was made way before our time and the owner graciously allowed me to display it in my store for the Western Art Show held during the town’s Founder’s Day 1984. Sorry for the awful quality of this pre-digital photo.
Bibi chose #55, “the first two digits of my social security number.” Which only tells me she wasn’t born in the mid-west but probably in the western US. Yet I believe we are similar in age so think she will identify with this piece of my high school art from 1971. Remember those bell-bottom pants?
Diane chose #312, for a “Porsche tractor model.” Won’t need a tractor for this light dusting of snow seen on the meadows of the Kaibab National Forest just north of the park in early October, 2011. Winter can begin early at over 8,000 feet (2438 m).
Arija chose #180, “the street number of our farm. It means that it is 1.8 km from the main road.” This rainbow over Roaring Springs Canyon seemed only a little over 1.8 km (1.1 mile) from where I stood. But the pot of gold was way down in the bottom of Grand Canyon.
Sherry chose #432, “for no reason at all.” Well, there is a very good reason to have a yurt near the North Kaibab trailhead for winter rim-to-rim hikers across Grand Canyon. What a delight to be off the ground with a wood stove to keep you warm. This yurt can be reserved by permit from December 1 to April 15.
Mary Beth chose #70, “because that was my LAST birthday.” I don’t know if that’s how old she was on her last birthday, or when she quit having birthdays. But I do know she’s getting ready to take a “ROADTRIP!” I sure would love to think of her cruising north on this highway past the Echo Cliffs and headed for Vermilion Cliffs on her way to see me at the North Rim.
Melissa chose #225, “For some unknown reason, maybe the sugar high from lunch, I just did some math! Our choice of 450 photos divided by 2 = 225… Silly I know!” No sugar, or any other kind of high, from these delicious Shaggy Mane mushrooms that should be popping up soon here on the North Rim. What a fun way to pick a number.
Firefly chose #137. This puts us on the Transept Trail for sunset at the North Rim.
Sallie also chose #55, “because we will celebrate that wedding anniversary this coming fall.” I believe she’d enjoy receiving flowers for her anniversary like this Tiger Lily which grew along Caves Creek campground in Oregon where I was the camp hostess in 2007.
My choice this week was a fortunate capture of the infamous Kaibab Squirrel drinking from the water fountain in the campground at the North Rim.
Thank you for joining Foto Friday Fun. It’s always a real treat to dig through my archives and pull the stories from my memories. For next week leave a number between 100 and 1000 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.
Which one is your favorite from this week?
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Oh I love the hut-room that Sherry’s number 432 came up with. I also LOVE that you saw baboons when you hiked with John. Little Bethany, six years younger than Eryn, calls them Bumboons! Too cute. I would like to choose number 777 today as it was a hymn my dad loved to get us to sing when he lead our Sunday School in the mid-sixties. (((Hugs))) Jo xxx
Bumboons is a great name for those beggars. So enjoyed hiking in the Draks. Have you down for 777.
Got to visit there again Gaelyn and see more of the mountains. It is a really beautiful part of the country.
I’d like to spend more time in the Draks.
Wow Gaelyn that sprinkling of snow is early but so beautiful. I am glad our snow does not start generally until just after Christmas, January and February are the worse months but as the weather seems to be changing we do not know what to expect any more! I am loosing track now of numbers but do not think I have given you 918 Spyder Porsche. Have a good weekend. Diane
At the North Rim it could snow in June as well but doesn’t usually stick around thank goodness. Have you down for 918.
Great pictures Gaelyn! I can would have been SO excited to be watched by baboons. So glad Jo chose this. Seems we like each other’s pictures. I like mine too. Rim to Rim in the snow now that sound pretty amazing. Wish I had known you when I was driving down the highway toward Vermillion Cliffs and the North Rim. That’s a longing kind of creating picture really like it. And I’d love to know enough about mushrooms to know which ones were delicious. Clearly I like all of these fotos but my top favorite is that squirrel picture. What a shot! That is just a really fabulous picture. Can’t wait to see what we all come up with next week. How about number 278, the only numbers that aren’t zeros in my daughter’s birthdata.
I wish we’d known each other then too and still hope for a meet up someday. The Kaibab squirrels are cute anytime, but that was special. Have you down for 278.
#55, “the first two digits of my social security number.” Which only tells me she wasn’t born in the mid-west but probably in the western US.
Those first two digits tells me that she had her Social Security card issued while LIVING in California but it does NOT tell me where she was born. I was born in California but my card was issued in Arizona where I lived at the time that I applied for a card.
I forget that we didn’t get our SS cards at birth back then. I still lived in the mid-west where I was born.
Oh I loved the tiger lily…and not just because you gave it to me for an early anniversary gift! Reminded me of a place we visited often before we sold our Oregon home …. we need to get back there again this summer…or next (so many places …..). (And thank you to the link back to your original post…I wasn’t reading you back when it was posted and I loved it!)
Loved the whole photo tour of your past and present …. my next favorite after “mine” is the baboons…it must me such an incredible thrill to see something like that.
I loved to see the Tiger Lilies in Oregon. Maybe a time for me to visit the PNW also.
Baboons are mischievous so I prefer seeing them from a distance.
No number this week?
So fun to revisit these great photos!
Hi, there, and many thanks for the bell bottoms! I had a pair of navy blue ones with tiny white polka dots that I adored.
Ed commented on the 55 on my social security card. Indeed it was issued in California when I was about 16. Maybe I wore my bell bottoms to get it? P.S. Was born in Pennsylvania!
I so loved my hiphugger bells. Have you down for 66.
Forgot to say I’ll choose 66, for Route 66!
Great shot–all. Oh do I remember Bell bottoms. I was playing softball and was running bases when I tripped on my own bellbottoms. How embarrassing! haha
I’d love to be going down that road to adventure. MB
The bells covered our bare feet nicely but did trip me up once in a while. Have you down for 200.
Thanks for remembering Buck with us. MB
Me again—-I’ll pick the #200 just because! MB
I’ve always liked crazy quilts, and perhaps that says something about me, but let’s not get into that! I love the road heading to the Vermillion Cliffs–road trips are one of my favorite things to do. Love the tiger lily shot too. Growing up in Oregon I decorated many a mud pie with them, so I’ll go with 1952 for next time. I would have been at the top of my baking career right about then.
Nothing wrong with crazy, join the club. And of course I love road trips. You are down for 1952.
Awesomeness. My number got a sunset over the Grand Canyon. *fist pump* I like the pic of the squirrel drinking water as well. Great photo opp.
A number between 100 and 1000. Mmmmmm……. 762
I got very lucky with the squirrel. Have you down for 762.
My dear Gaelyn, I have not been able to visit and won’t be for a while, Peter is now in palliative care and I spend most of my time at his bedside in the nursing home. 55years is a long time to walk the same path.