This week’s Foto Friday Fun includes 7 images chosen by readers picking a number out of my photo archives.
Arija chose #400, “the mid-way number of those you offered.” I know that Arija loves to watch birds but doesn’t see snow very often. So here’s a combination of a snowy bird dance in my Yarnell yard December 15, 2012. I’m hoping Not to see this again this year. The snow part that is.
Bibi chose #555, “for no reason.” No reason to turn down this barely singed property deal in the boulders of Glen Ilah Yarnell. Well, except for having no money. Plus there’s no utilities. But if you like rocks…
Yogi chose #300, “Because that is the dividing line between good and great hitter’s batting averages in baseball.” Don’t know about baseball, but when rafting the Colorado River floating under the Navajo Bridge has to be some kind of dividing line. I haven’t done the upper river, yet, but a fellow Ranger was on one of these boats while I was on the bridge.
Jo chose #799. Now this shot is from my rafting adventure on the Colorado River. Even though I’ve crossed the river by foot several times I usually am looking down from the North Rim. I think being engulfed by the canyon walls while on the river is an experience everyone should do.
Sherry chose #127 and she’s a tree hugger, but maybe not with these charred snags from the 2006 Warm Fire along the road from Jacob Lake to the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park. The new saplings are too small to obscure the view of the Vermilion Cliffs to the northeast of the Kaibab Plateau.
Diane chose #111, “for no particular reason.” So, for no particular reason she gets to see a family of Blue Wildebeest in the morning light at Kruger National Park in South Africa.
MaryBeth chose #900, a Rainbow skink also seen at Kruger National Park where fascinating animals come in all sizes.
My choice this week shows one of my neighbor’s many cats enjoying a scratch on a burnt tree.
Thank you for joining in Foto Friday Fun. I really enjoy digging through my archives and pulling the stories from my memories. To join in the fun for next week leave a number between 1 and 500 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.
Do you have a favorite from this week?
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, you could not possibly have picked something better for me. I have watched the feeding dance a couple of times already and will watch it many more times. The quail really give scale to the little birds. Just a wonderful video and yes to see snow at this time of the year when we swelter, is a real treat.
If you grant me another choice, I’ll have 89, a number that so often has been or been part of the number of various places we have lived in.
So glad you like the bird dance, and figured the snow would be appreciated. If any falls here soon, I’d be happy to send it your way. 😉 Have you down for 89.
Pleeeze do, I’d love snow for Christmas!
Hi Gaelyn, what a lovely video on Arija’s number. I never knew birds pecked in the snow! I love the wildebeest too. Please could I have number 7 for next week, which is tomorrow’s date and on which something good is supposed to happen in the Hedges household. Hugs Jo
Birds have to eat even in the snow. Now I’m curious what is coming to the Hedges tomorrow. Have you down for 7.
Nice pics, My favorite is the wildebeest.
Let me see, I pick the number 2, just cuz.
Have you down for 2.
It’s always wonderful to see nature renew itself. Being a “mostly” east coaster, I don’t remember the Warm Fire so I hope it was a natural occurrence. I think Mother Nature should get to choose when she wishes to renew. But my favorite today is Jo’s. I REALLY want to get down on that river one day so I’m going to need your help picking just the right rafting experience. I’d like to have # 361 please.
The Warm Fire began with a lightning strike and the Forest Service fire management decided it was a part of the forest that needed to burn. Unfortunately, a huge storm cell came in with high winds and whipped the fire across the road twice. A backburn was lit, the North Rim was closed and evacuated for almost a week (it is located at the end of a dead end road), and almost 60,000 acres were burned. It grows back.
You REALLY do need to take a river trip. I am unfamiliar with the commercial rafters but have friends that can make recommendations when you’re ready.
Have you down for 361.
while I do love all the photos this week, I have to say the Rainbow skink is my favorite. what a little cutie! 8*)
But is that litter on the ground around it? 8*(
My number this week would be 31 the age my daughter will be if she has her first baby on my brother’s birthday!! 8*)
Thanks for continuing this wonderful exploration!!! 8*)
There is a moth and some litter, unfortunately, by the skink. Have you down for 31.
Really like your blog. Am new at this but like the letter 5 .
Thanks for joining in the fun and welcome. Have you down for 5.
Thanks for the memories,long time since I saw a wildebeest Love that skink I do not remember seeing those! How about 222 again for no reason next week 🙂 Take care Diane
I like bringing you memories of South Africa. Have you down for 222.
Gee, I could almost afford those rocks, but that’s about it then. I love that lizard…
Okay, next week (and I hope to be back visiting every day…) I’ll choose 66, what I’ll be next year….
Can’t eat rocks. Hope you are feeling better, and Mom too. Have you down for 66.
Interesting selection of photos.
I love all the wild (and tame) life, but my favorite this time is the shot from your Colorado rafting river trip. I think you have enough numbers for a post already… I’ll be earlier next week. Oh yeah, I love the bird feeding in the snow video and I love that it was the perfect choice for Arija. If you need another photo, I will take #6. It is my lucky number.
Sometimes the numbers just fall in perfect place. Have you down for 6.
Amazing photos, those canyons look like the ones of the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan! I love nature and would love some day to see those places. As others said, the Colorado River picture is great. I’ve never been to the US, your photos gave me a really good reason for a visit!
Thanks Tom. There is a lot of beautiful natural places to visit throughout the US. Plan to stay for a while or make many trips.
My favourite photo is the one taken from the bottom of the canyon with the river and mountains all around. Beautiful. I don’t have money to buy a plot of rocks either, but I’ll choose 13 cause I think the number rocks. Even if others think its unlucky.
Rafting the Colorado through Grand Canyon was one of the highlights of my life. Have you down for lucky 13.
Always fun seeing what you come up with. It is fun for us too. MB
PS: My youngest birthday was on the 7th and she is now a grand 39—Jack Benny’s forever age.
So how about #39
MB