This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 6 images chosen by readers from my photo archives. I love sharing these memories as photos are drawn up from my past and will keep trying to post as I struggle with intermittent internet connection.
Jo chose #2014, “which is the next time there is a Friday 13th AND a full moon on the same day!” The next photo may have been a little more appropriate for her but instead it’s this unidentified plant seen while hiking on the Arizona Trail. I really like how the sunshine highlights the fuzzy leaves and unusual colored pods.
MaryBeth chose #555 because “I like 5’s.” Do you think there’s 1/5 missing from the sun in this shot of the annular eclipse from May 2012?
Yogi chose #2014, “cuz that is where we are.” Hiking in the Drakensburg Mountains, South Africa is where I was in 2010 and after getting soaked in a down pour I better understood why everything looks like a carpet of green.
Elaine chose #1020, my location in fall of 2011 as I prepared to walk the labyrinth at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.
Diane chose #2356. Sure hope she’s getting more interesting photos than this while traveling around Spain and Portugal. This fuzzy whatever it is on an unidentified plant caught my eye during a September 2010 walk to the rim for sunset at Toroweap, Grand Canyon National Park.
Jonker chose #9995, “just to see what the last photo in the grouping is.” As the camera’s numbering was about to turn over at Pilanesburg Game Reserve South Africa I caught this Zebra trying to hide behind the tall grass. (Note, the highest number has now dropped by one.)
My choice this week as sunset ended the work day walking the Bright Angel Point trail and hoping this ‘touron’ (tourist + moron) didn’t fall off the rocks with friends taking photos. I recommended they attend that night’s evening program called “Death in the Canyon” when I walked below their perilous view point.
Thank you for joining in Foto Friday Fun where readers choose a number from my archives and I share the corresponding photo and a story. To join in the fun for
next week leave a number between 01 and 9994 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.
Do you have a favorite from this week?
I have so many photos to share from this recent journey in South Africa. So as I label them I’ll post every 100th image on the Geogypsy Facebook page where you can follow along.
Capturing the present for future memories of the past
Oh I love the word: touron! Lovely images as always, Gaelyn an interesting stories about all. I love the zebra. I also love the moody photo of the Berg! I would like 9994 if Jonker doesn’t take it as well! Hugs Jo
I figured you’d like the Berg photo. Sure hope to hike there again. Have you down for #9994 and you beat Jonker for it.
Glad you were able to upload the photos this week! It’s a lovely collection, as usual. Love the zebra shot, and I hope the touron enjoyed the Death in the Canyon lecture. He obviously needed it! I’ll choose 621 this week, as the summer solstice is this weekend. It’s the time of the Midnight Sun, but we’ve been having a much needed drenching the last few days, so a little dreary at the midnight hour. Still it’s welcome because we’ve had a very dry spring and this should dampen the forest fire threat. Hopefully the rain will let up by Saturday for all the Midnight Sun festivities: Midnight Sun Run, Midnight Sun baseball, Midnight Sun Festival, plus a multitude of other events scheduled for this weekend.
I do hope your skies clear for the midnight sun and all the festivities that sound like fun. So have you down for #621.
I LOVE your favorite pic. I truly could not believe how many fools were playing at the rim, laughing, jostling, and ruining MY pics in the process. Though yours is a great captouron of the foolhardy… LOL tourons — perfect.
4157 – spells dog in numbers accd to place in alphabet. 🙂 Gracie entering my life today!
Yes, there are a lot of tourons at Grand Canyon and guess that’s why we loose a few every year.
Congrats on Gracie entering your life. Looking forward to pics. Have you down for #4157.
Great set of shot as always Gaelyn. I like your choice of ‘idiot in a rock’.
I see these kinds of idiots tempting fate every day. No number for this week?
Well shoot. If forgot to ask for a number so first thing, next week I’d like 234. Love that labyrinth, love that moon shot, love that zebra. Those mountains are so green they almost look like the Andes. Have you ever been there? Definition of touron=you can’t cure stupid.
I haven’t been to the Andes, yet. But hiking the Drakensbergs was a highlight of my first trip to SA. Have you down for #234.
Great pics, as I’ve become accustomed to with you. The labyrinth is the second photo of such that I’ve seen today. I’m intrigued.
Tourons are always annoying but I like your pic.
That touron did provide a great photo opp.
You put down a lot of miles, but hey vacation is worth it. Have you down for #550.
Oh, and 550 is my number for next week. That is how many miles we drove yesterday.
I believe the unidentified plant seen while hiking on the Arizona Trail, your first picture, is woolly loco weed.
Could be but I’ve never heard of ‘wooly loco weed.’ No number from you to play along?
Oh my that velvet green covering the hills is magnificent. Love all your photos as usual and the Blood Moon is lovely. We were overcast that night.
I will pick number 80. My secret. MB
Have you down for the ‘secret’ #80.
Oh my gosh … I love the word ‘touron’ and hope yours wasn’t the last photo ever taken of this one. (Hope they all learned from the film.) Zebra is my favorite of all this week. I’m still not choosing s number because don’t know if we’ll have decent internet next week (a problem you sadly understand only too well.)
I too hope it wasn’t the last shot taken of this touron. Enjoy your adventure and the time away from the net.
Great contrast between the Drakensberg pic and the one of the labyrinth in Utah. You pictures are always a pleasure to look at.
For next week I choose a number in the middle somewhere. Random like 6653
Thanks Jonker. Have you down for #6653.
Ha ha an interesting bit of fluff but as always great photos. Just been looking quickly through your other posts, love the birthday one. Will look properly when I return later this week. Take care Diane