This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 10 images chosen by readers from my photo files including lots of low numbers that really jogged my memories.
Mary Lou chose #1138. The beautiful Virgin River Gorge along I15 in Arizona through a bug splattered windshield on the way to Las Vegas for my 40th class reunion.
Patti chose #120. From the early 1990s while working at Mount St. Helens, a view of the blowdown around Ryan Lake from the Norway Pass trail. Only 10 years after the eruption and look at all that green.
Sherry and David chose #7689. While on safari in South Africa it’s not just the big animals I look for. There is also a large variety of birds like this Jackal buzzard seen at Addo Elephant National Park during March, 2014.
Pam and John chose #1137. This could almost be my Kirkland neighborhood but was actually taken at the Movie Set Museum in Kanab, Utah back in 2011. Not sure I’d recommend this unless you’re an old time western movie buff as there is so much more to do in the area.
Ann and Bill chose #22. Yes that’s me in 1970 in a scort (part shorts and part skirt) outside the Downers Grove, Illinois house I grew up in. Wonder if that fashion statement will ever return.
Rosemary chose #5353, “as hubby’s birth date.” Not sure this fisherman would be wearing shorts during May in Scottburgh, South Africa where it would be winter. But I was there on a warm summer day in February, 2014.
Diane and Nigel chose #4448. They may remember driving through the standing dead forest from the 2006 Warm fire on the Kaibab National Forest. Many see the burnt trees as sad but I find them rather sculptural, especially against a stormy sky like this August, 2014 day.
Sallie and Bill chose #121, “next Friday’s date.” Another 1990s blast from the past of Mt. St. Helens wearing a lenticular cap of clouds seen from the above Norway Pass trail.
Donna chose #407, my 2011 display of Junior Ranger badges. And to prove I’ve been a busy Junior Ranger during the last five years I’ve included the current collection. This program is not just for kids and I learn so much earning my badges.
Yogi chose #623. One of many native ruins found at Wupatki National Monuemnt when I visited on a stormy day in April, 2009.
My choice this week from the many rainy shots taken through the RV Imax window.
Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories. Please join in next week by leaving a number between 1 and 9999 in your comment below.
Do you have a favorite this week?
Your pick is the winner in my eyes though I love your junior ranger collection. You have been to a LOT of national parks for a gal whose summers are taken up in one and who winters often in Africa. I still have two skorts. They are for biking.one has a secretly padded butt. I love them. Guess I’d better get a picture. Wish I had your long legs to go with them. Love that picture.
I wish I’d known about the Junior Ranger program when fist visiting national parks 40 years ago. My collection would be bigger. Guess I’ll have to go back to those. I love it! Are skorts still sold? Would be perfect for biking, especially with a padded butt. I’m only 5’5″, and shrinking, but my height has only been in my legs. No number?
Oh no, this is twice in a row I’ve forgotten a number. How about 2947?
Have you down for #2947.
Love the Mt. St. Helens photos, Gaelyn. It’s hard to capture how far that blowdown extends on camera, but you did a good job of it in the last photo!
Today I choose 1461; the number I am setting in my digital countdown calendar this morning.
Jim
Thank you. Those St Helens photos are old scanned shots but they sure do bring back the memories of that otherworldly look. Have you down for #1461.
Junior Ranger photos. I wish I knew that anyone could do them. How did we miss that!
I’ve only been turned down once for “being too old”. Sure is a fun way to learn. No number this week?
I’ll be in Quartzsite tomorrow sometime. Maybe get together during the week, if it ever quits raining.
Interesting how many photos have dark clouds. Seems appropriate with the weather across the country this winter.
Our photo chose is perfect. We so enjoyed our stay in Kanab back in our motorcycle days and learned about the old westerns filmed in the area. Our motel showed a different western each night in an old barn. We stayed in the John Wayne cabin which is where he stayed when filming back in the day. I don’t believe the carpet has been changed since his time!!
Clouds are always good in photos and does match what we’re currently getting. Kanab is an, interesting town. No number this week?
4449 for next week please though I may have to find a connection at the airport to see it. Where has the time gone, suddenly we are almost on our way, We leave home Thursday to stay overnight at a hotel for the early flight from Bordeaux to the UK then we leave for JHB on Fri evening from Heathrow.
Love all these photos and I am always amazed by the amount of new growth so soon after a fire, I saw it so many times in RSA and Zimbabwe. My only regret is the slower animals that just cannot get out of the way.
Take care, and I will be back in March if I cannot make contact before. Best wishes and hugs to both you and Bill. Diane and Nigel
Oh how I wish I was going also. Have a marvelous time. Have you down for #4449.
Oh yay!! I can finally leave a comment and join back in the photo fun :-)))) Those Mt St Helens pics are incredible, still beautiful with all the destruction. 6411 for next week please. Oh goody, goody!!!
Thanks and welcome back. Have you down for #6411.
Wow, that’s a LOT of badges. You’ve probably forgotten more stuff than I’ll ever know.
Next week: #417
And not even all the national parks I’ve visited in my youth. Have you down for #417.
Enjoyed them all- my favorite is your pick. Please put me down for 3227 for next week. Mary Lou
That was an exceedingly lucky day. Have you down for #3227.
I chose Friday’s date last week in the hope it would be a good luck charm and I’d get here on that day….only two days late, but I did make it …. love the photo I ‘chose’ …. Mt St Helens sure did recover well and quicker than expected… a hopeful thing to keep in mind. I didn’t know that about JR Rangers….never paid much attention to the program; makes me want to revisit all the National Parks (and for the first time those we haven’t seen of course — those are top of my travel bucket list). Sigh, so many beautiful places, so little time! I think my favorite today is your pick — beautiful view and it makes me nostalgic for our RV traveling days (with the big 5th wheels and their imax window views. I miss those.)
No worry. I seem usually to be a couple days behind catching up with blogfriends. I am always happy to see your comments. Although scanned from an old print I too love that view of St Helens. The 10-20 years of speedy recovery surprised many. Never to late to visit national parks, and become a junior ranger if you choose. 😉 Have you down for #128.
BTW, lots more comfortable camping in the big 5th-wheel than the small truck camper but from either one, the world around us Is the view.
Darn it I did it again — let me try 128 next week — I’m liking you archives and your memories.
The blast pics are amazing. One would think that they would be safe that far away.
I’m late, I’m late, but my number in case it is not too late is 5275
Some people did think they were that safe far away and why there were lives lost. Have you down for #5275, if I have enough signal to put out a post.