This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers from my photo files including the lovely light of morning and night plus an old toy you might be able to recognize.
Mary Lou chose #5535. Seems like we’ve seen a lot of this sunrise over the Indian Ocean in Scottburgh, South Africa. Maybe that’s because I took so many shots of it.
Pam and John chose #9182. I believe they’d like this hike on the Dassie Nature Trail, except for the down pour experienced along the way. Sometimes it’s a challenge to find the trail markers at Augrabies Falls National Park, South Africa. Do you see them to the far right?
Diane and Nigel chose #4441. I enjoyed a front row seat with a delicious Greek dinner two nights in a row at this musical light show on the Boardwalk Mall in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. If you two get to PE I highly recommend this.
Bibi chose #112, “the number of my usual systolic blood pressure, ha.” I think my blood pressure would rise trying to weave sandals and bags like these examples on display at the Mesa Verde National Park museum in Colorado. These are similar to our flip-flops but we don’t use yucca plant fibers, yet.
Sherry and David chose #1227. Although I don’t care for the travesty called Lake Powell the contrasts of light and shadow plus blue and orange make for a breathtaking sight in this otherworldly landscape.
Patti chose #50, making her choices “taking leaps by 10.” Another old scanned print from my days as an animal keeper at the California Living Museum back in the 1980s. Wasn’t easy to see or photograph the nocturnal Ringtail Cat.
Jodee and Bill chose #4070. The afternoon view with a sundowner (evening cocktail) when I stayed at Never Daunted’s cottage in Hogsback, South Africa.
Donna chose #337, a necklace I made with coral, turquoise, and Japanese glass beads. Lesson learned about photographing jewelry against black with flecks of who knows what when I started over four years ago thinking about an online store. I’m still thinking about it and just ordered a portable light box which I hope helps clearly show the products against white. We’ll see.
Yogi let random dot org choose #5084. Long before moving to Kirkland, Arizona I drove through this range land and enjoyed a few sunsets over the Weaver Mountains.
Sallie chose #1205, one of two in a panorama. Fall along Cottonwood Creek displays a bit of yellow-green colors in an otherwise gray-brown sandy environment. One of few drives found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Check road conditions in Cottonwood Canyon because it’s sometimes closed due to slippery mud or worse.
My choice from Thanksgiving Day while wandering around Berta’s gardens. She collects interesting stuff, loves rusty things, and gives them a home. Hard to say how long this toy has been around. Anybody recognize it?
Please join in next week by leaving a number between 1 and 9999 in your comment below. Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories.
Do you have a favorite this week? I can’t choose.
Hi Gaelyn, the Boardwalk Mall looks so festive and inviting at night. Did you see that Jonker received an award for a radio program or slot where he promotes Port Elizabeth. Have a great day. Jo
I saw that Jonker was given a well earned reward.
Great week of photos!! Love your opening photo…never too many sunrise/sunsets:) So wish we could hike that trail in our photo choice But I couldn’t find any trail marker. We have tried to use Cottonwood Canyon Road twice. Once it was way too muddy after rain and the other year it was closed to washed out areas:( I am trying to get to the Grosvenor Arch. One year we tried from the Kodachrome State Park area and last year when we were in Page. I am determined to get there this coming May!!
#8967
Thanks Pam. Trail markers in South Africa are usually either yellow footprints, or in this case short white lines. A real challenge to find. Grosvenor Arch is very cool and worth being persistent for. Hopefully in May. Have you down for #8967.
Great photos- can’t pick a favorite. Please put me down for 1040 for next week.
Thank you Mary Lou. Have you down for #1040.
Wow that show at PE is amazing, I have only ever driven through PE I don’t remember stopping there at all. We now have friends who have bought a house at Bushmans, not so far away, but they will only be there on a permanent basis when they retire so we still may never get to see it. As always I love your photos, that toy at the end is something I have never seen before but it looks like a digger if some sort! 4442 for next week please. Have a great weekend Diane and Nigel
Thanks Diane. There’s a lot to see in and around PE. I agree the toy was some kind of digger. Have you down for #4442. All the best to both of you.
Hi Gaelyn
I love the necklace photo flecks and all. Pretty colors. I choose# 1944 for next week.
Thanks Jean. I’m crazy about turquoise. Have you down for #1944.
Wow….those are some sandals indeed. I often wonder how long they lasted…. And that ringtailed cat is really cute.
I love that necklace you made…BTW, are you still into jewelry making?
Next week, put me down for # 2017, which I hope will be a better year for the world….though it for sure won’t for the US….
The sandals probably last longer buried in this arid environment than they did being used. I have Lots of jewelry, and beads, but haven’t made anything in a long time. Have you down for #2017, also hoping for a good year.
I’m in to sunrises lately. Love that first picture. I feel as you do about Lake Powell and have never gone there. Probably never will. It would seem like a betrayal of Cactus Ed. Sure would love to see those colors without the lake. Wonderful shots of Cottonwood Creek. I’d like 2262 for next week please.
Thanks. You’re in the perfect place for sunrises. There is plenty of other redrock country to see and sometimes even a little water. Have you down for #2262.
A ringtail?!?!? Very cool.
That toy looks like one of the Tonka tractors we used to play with when we were kids. It would have had rubber tracks and been painted yellow.
I’m catching up with last week (again). I like all the panoramas and love the Desertview shot. That watchtower is goofy, but it’s tough to beat that spot at sunset.
#4754 for me this week, please.
Oh yeah, that is a front end loader on tracks. Yep, I had one. I’ve always wanted to drive construction equipment.
My number for next week according to Random dot org is 9362
What a cool toy. And it would be fun to operate a Big one. You get #9362.
Great job on the necklace.
Next week I choose #347
Thanks Donna, one of many. You get #347 next week.
The first image makes me feel really peaceful. Love it. And the one of the ringtail? I get the feeling he might just jump right down atop the viewer (if only he finds the courage). Very cool.
Agree about the ringtail as it was very skidish yet I always wondered if it would attack. Thanks for stopping by Beth.
Did the ringtail have a name? He/she is certainly unusual looking with its big ears and ringed tail.
The sunset over Weaver Mountain is beautiful – so serene.
Next week: Another leap by 10 = #60
I don’t remember the ringtail having a name. Most of the animals named because the keepers and docents interacted with them. Will go another leap for #60 next week.
i always wondered what ever happened to that Tonka truck my brother and I left out in Mom’s garden back early in the last century ;>)). I saw a ringtail up in a tree one time — people said it was a raccoon, but I knew it wasn’t. Beautiful skies both morning and night, your wonderful SA memories, and I loved my panoramic shot of the colorful (when you look for it) desert landscape. 1209 next week please and I hope we’ll have Internet all set up at the Canal Cottage by then.
Thank you Sallie. Tonka survives! Awesome sighting as ringtails are not easy to spot. Have a safe journey back to FL. Have you down for #1209.