This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 7 images chosen by readers from my photo archives. Our meme number for this week is 2694. Please link in any day this week by digging into your archives and sharing a photo and story on your blog. Plus check out the other posts linked to the Foto Friday Fun meme.
Shane chose #2694, a piece of stormy sky which is one of four in a panorama. Thank goodness the rain held off on that 4th of July so we could have our annual water parade. This shot taken later in the afternoon from my RV window looking over Transept Canyon.
Diane chose #0072 hoping that James Bond will “pop up” in one of her choices. The long blasted exit tunnel at Oregon Caves National Monument kind of reminds me of a place James would be running for his life, though I never saw him while leading cave tours during 2006 when this shot was taken. Notice the door to keep outside air from entering this artificial opening in the cave.
Bruce and Becci (Facebook friends) chose #6878, a delightful Joshua Tree bloom from my recent visit to Joshua Tree National Park.
Elaine chose #1313, a view from one of my many walks into the neighboring Weaver Mountains. This shot was taken in March of 2012, before the Yarnell fire changed the landscape drastically. I haven’t been up there since though I know there’s new growth.
Sherry chose #4680, a pair of female elephants seen in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Good chance this is Mom with one of her growing daughters as the females tend to band together with multiple generations in a herd. I could watch them forever.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Yogi this week as he turns 60 and that’s his number. Miller’s Chapel in Oregon Caves National Monument reminds me of a birthday cake. So your present is a cave tour.
My choice is a panoramic shot of the travesty called Lake Powell returning to river as years of drought prove the mistake of Glen Canyon Dam. Note the “bath tub ring” depicting over 100 feet (30 m) below full pool. I stopped at an overlook near Page on the way home from Kanab Sunday. I’m sure Lake Mead looks even worse at only 45 percent of its capacity. And don’t even get me started on what’s happening with water shortages in California.
Please join in by:
1) Sharing a #2694 photo index number from your photo archives in a post on your blog with a story that goes with the photo. Then add the URL from that post to Mr. Linky below along with your name (Gaelyn, AZ), and link back to Foto Friday Fun 106 in your post so others may read and join in.
2) You can also leave a number between 01 and 9999 in a comment for next week’s Foto Friday Fun.
3) One or both of the above.
4) Spread the word.
First commenter will chose next week’s photo index number.
Do you have a favorite from this week?
Gotta love those elephants! I’ll chose 2607 for next week.
Always love the elephants. Have you down for #2607.
I love the cave shot. The Weaver mountain shot looks beautiful and it looks very snakey to me.
I think the era of the big Corps of Engineers dams is over. I hope. I remember even as they were building the talk about how fast it would silt over.
Thanks Yogi. We don’t see ‘bad’ snakes very often at 5,000 feet, thank goodness.
Oh yes, silting behind the dam is another problem.
No number this week?
I don’t think there is a shortage of water in California. I think the problem is an overage of people using what water is available.
So true Ed!
Nice panoramas this week. I’ve tried to make a couple recently, but they didn’t work out too well. I need more practice. You do great work with those.
#6228 for me this week.
Thanks Shane. Does take practice. I’ve been taking panoramas for many decades and remember taping prints together. Have you down for #6228.
Love the cave shots,also the panoramic shot, beautiful. 0073 for next week, I am sure James is going to turn up in the end 🙂 Have a great weekend. Diane
Thanks Diane. I’m keeping my eyes open for James. 😉 Have you down for #0073.
Well I LOVE your choice and the commentary. Travesty indeed. I have vowed never to visit until the river is freed. I second Ed’s comment as well.
BUT I also love my choice. Elephants are such fantastic creatures. I admire them so much more than many of my species. that’s a great picture. We were just in Florida Caverns and your lovely picture of Oregon Caves looks just like many of the formations we found here clear across the country. I find that amazing. Put me down for 7847 for next week.
Maybe someday we’ll realize the errors of our ways.
We could learn so much about compatibility from elephants.
Lots of cave options in the southeast and unless they are dry caves the formations are created the same way, yet each looks entirely different.
Have you down for #7847.
Picture of elephants is lovely!
Thank you Maja. So are your penguin shots. Very different than the Jackass penguins I saw in South Africa.
OK. So no comments about California water. I kind of wish you would get started; would love to hear” your thoughts. So, I love the elephants. And Joshua Tree. And I want to visit Oregon Caves when we’re in Oregon this summer — I have a long list of things we haven’t seen in way too long. If not too late give me 1963. Another kid. I have a lot of em.
I mostly have to agree with Ed about over population being the major reason areas run out of water, and pollution that is human caused. The Earth, and most of her other inhabitants, would probably survive drought by reducing their numbers.
Does seem that our travel lists just keep getting longer. Hope you make it to Oregon Caves.
Have you down for #1963.