This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 9 images chosen by readers picking a number out of my photo archives. Lots of pics from Grand Canyon and a few oldies.
Arija chose #999, “part of my mobile phone number and because I like it.” No mobile service along this forest road on the North Kaibab, and I like that. Because who would want to be chatting on the phone with all this brilliant fall colors on the aspen.
Jo chose #30, “as Debbie has a birthday on Monday 30th (so does my brother, Phillip) and she is very special to us.” I feel like digital cameras were my best birthday present ever. I’ve taken photos for 50 years and always like panoramas which I used to tape together. Sure is nice just to push a button now. This funny pano was taken in 2001 at Quartz Creek waterfall in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington long before I owned digital.
Yogi chose #97, “cuz if my Cowboys can beat Philadelphia this weekend they will have a 9-7 record and win the NFC East title.” So is that a game of chance like these kids trying to win a piece of cake? Just one of the fun activities for Halloween back in 2005 when a friend and I helped a local business entertain the Congress kids.
Sherry chose #737 and she likes a challenging hike so perhaps slipping between the cracks along the Wire Pass trail to Buckskin Gulch Slot Canyon would appeal. Note the tree wedged high in the canyon which indicates just how much water can flow through here.
MaryBeth chose #57. Now I know she’s a horse loving woman but don’t know how she feels about mules. At the Grand Canyon mules have been hauling people and supplies for over 100 years. I rode a mule 5 miles into the canyon and back from the North Rim. They are wider than horses. Awesome experience, but, no matter how you go down and up at the canyon something is going to hurt.
Patti chose #14, “because it’s my birthday and it’s the day you’re taking off!” I sure hope it doesn’t look like this on January 14th. Although it’s more likely at Oregon Caves, like this image, than Phoenix. I volunteered part of the winter of 2004 and learned how to use snowshoes, amongst other things.
Bibi chose #777, “First number that came into my head.” Here’s what’s left of the home of the first people to live at Grand Canyon. The Ancestral Puebloans grew crops on the Walhalla Plateau during summer and returned to the river for the cold winters.
Melissa chose #914 as “random fun.” Definitely fun to listen to the Kanab Symphony with Grand Canyon as a backdrop.
Diane chose #653 which provides a window into the Grand Canyon from along the Cape Royal Trail on the North Rim.
My choice this week is a sunset at Kruger National Park, South Africa. And I’ll be back there soon to see more of these.
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 150 and 1500 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.
Do you have a favorite from this week?
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Love that window to the Grand Canyon, it is stunning. The sunset is also very special and I wish I was joining you to see this in real life. Maybe one day I will get back there. Have a good weekend Diane
Thanks Diane. Sometimes, at the right angle the Colorado River can be seen through that window. I think you should come visit SA, while I’m there.
No number this week?
Ooops dreaming 1499. How I would love to meet you there!!
I love them all Gaelyn but it is what is left of the Pueblo settlement that gives me goose bumps. I would also dearly like to ride a mule, especially up the track. There may be a possibility of me making it down the track but getting back up is something I can no longer aspire to.
For next week, could I please have 47, it just popped into my head.
PS A tip on packing: pack what you think you will nee, then leave half of it behind. We never need as much as we think we do and we are the only ones who see us in the same clothes since we never stay long enough in one place for others to notice. I wore the same skirt in Europe for 3 months, after that, I burned it.
Sometimes I hear women talking and children laughing at the ruin. It’s not scary, just unusual.
Love your packing tip, and follow it.
Have you down for 47.
Neither scary nor whacky, those ruins sing to me from way, way back in history, they fell like I’m coming home.
That’s perfect, it is like coming home.
I really liked the mule shot and the wintery, snowy building scene. I choose for next week, 169 because that is 13 squared and it just popped in my head.
LOL! You and numbers. I wouldn’t know anything squared.
Have you down for 169.
I also loved the mule shot as it reminds me of our hiking days in the Drakensberg. Thanks for another super post, Gaelyn. My number for this week is 10, the date we leave site next week. Grant can’t wait to go on leave; I would love to stay here always but it’s not possible. Blessings. Jo
Didn’t know mules were used in the Drakensberg.
Have you down for 10. I leave 10 days from tomorrow. Hope we meet up again in SA.
Boy you’ve got some good ones this week. You are absolutely right that I would totally LOVE that hike. I’m amazed at how you know so much about all your commenters and are able to relate the photo they have chosen to them. Very nice! When does the symphony play at the Canyon? I need to figure out how long I have to stay there to see the Native festival AND the symphony. Boy what a concert hall!! I think I’ll take 675 for next week.
Thanks Sherry. You commenters are my long time followers, who I follow also, so I feel like I know you.
And you’re in luck with the Symphony because it’s August 10th, just two days after Native American Days.
Have you down for 675.
Thanks for the ‘house’ photo. When I see things like that, as I have in Mycenae, Greece, and can’t help but imagine people back then walking around, talking, cooking, leading their everyday lives never even imagining that one day what they left behind would be studied, photographed….
I especially like the group photo and the ‘window’ one just below it.
I’ll go for 1492….the year that Columbus ‘sailed the ocean blue’…and subsequently wrought havoc.
I swear that sometimes I hear voices from the past when I’m at the ruin. Think someday someone will take photos of our old crumbly houses?
Have you down for 1492.
An awesome set of pictures and enjoyed the commentary as always (laughing about ‘no matter how … something is going to hurt!’ Yep!)
Can I have 954…(part of a phone number)? Happy New Year! And thanks for the great posts all year.
Thank you for following along all year Sallie. Have you down for 954.
Again super shots and great dialogue. I like the native ruins. I too qould hear the talking and laughter. I do love horses and would try a mule and after 10 miles I guess we all would be a little butt sprung. I really would like to hear the symphony with the canyon as the back drop. I have the grand canyon suite which I really enjoy. MB
How about 280 because that’s how many miles it is to the ranch from here. MB
You should try to make it to the North Rim August 10th for the Symphony.
Have you down for 280.
I would have loved to have done the mule trip down the Canyon when I was there but time was not on my side.
I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite from this collection–all are wonderful! Put me down for 2014 for a good start in the New Year.
Thanks Elaine for all the compliments. You are so right about how we react to things in life. I have one book maybe I should make another. Have you down for 2014.