This week’s Foto Friday Fun features eight images chosen by readers from my photo files including canyons, forest, and desert.
Sherry and David chose #2947. An afternoon in June, 2015 a storm blew through leaving wisps of low cloud hovering around Wotans Throne. This Wedding site view can be experienced at the end of the Cape Royal Road. Would make a magical wedding backdrop.
Jim and Diana chose #1461, “the number I am setting in my digital countdown calendar this morning.” When looking at the walls of Grand Canyon I have to think of geologic time. The top layer of Saddle Mountain is about 300 million years old, ancient sand dunes. This northeastern view is from Point Imperial overlook on the North Rim.
Diane and Nigel chose #4449. They are currently flying to Southern Africa for several weeks so chances are exceedingly good they will see Impalas, a small buck much like our antelope, that left these prints and scat along the road in Kruger National Park.
Jodee and Bill chose #6411. In contemplation? Perhaps. This is my previous supervisor admiring the foggy view from an overlook below the Grand Lodge on the North Rim Grand Canyon.
Donna chose #417, a bullseye on a dead aspen seen along the Arizona Trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon.
Mary Lou chose #3227. You probably know I like rocks, and I’m a pareidolia so I see a hound dog in this boulder. Although I’m not sure what drew me to photograph this while hiking the Borrego Palm Canyon trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park a couple years ago. What do you see?
Sallie chose #128. From back in 2007 when rafting the Rogue River in Oregon I saw this huge nest and an Osprey nearby.
Yogi chose #5275. Spent almost as much time walking in the lush gardens at Forever Resort Badplass in South Africa as the warm water pools, but not the water slides. Those were the best.
My choice is the light and shadows dancing across the KOFA Mountains not too far south from my current Quartzsite, Arizona location. I should be looking at those more next week.
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?
Love the variety of colors in photo 1461, Gaelyn! I do sort of see the hound dog in 3227, but I think it is wearing goggles.
For next week, let’s try 3340. That’s the height of Red Shirt Table, the highest point in Badlands National Park, located in the South, or ‘Stronghold’ Unit.
Maybe that hound dog is riding in a sidecar and needs goggles. 😉 Have you down for #3340.
All the photos are wonderful- can’t select a favorite this week. Please put me down for 1272 for next week. Thanks for sharing all your great photos- Mary Lou
Thank you Mary Lou. Have you down for #1272.
3331 for next week please. Sitting at the airport waiting for our flight. Sure we will see plenty of impala. Hugs from us both.
Have a wonderful flight and trip. Looking forward to updates and maybe some photos to fill the gap for my not being there. Have you down for #3331.
3227 – the beautiful varnish! Amazing.
Isn’t that boulder awesome? Have you down for #3227.
What no number!! How did that happen! Very strange!
I love that rock you found in Anza Borrego SP!! I immediately thought of a big old bloodhound lying in a heap:)
#1277
Oops, you’re covered this week with #1277. That’s exactly what I saw too!
Love Wotans Throne – what a view! Glad your supervisor braved that spot for my photo – makes me hold on to my chair :-))) Wonderful bullseye pattern. Mother Nature is always the best artist. 3010 for next week please.
My supervisor didn’t even know I was taking the photo but she liked it. Nice thing about the Cape Royal overlook is you don’t have to get close to the railed edge for amazing views. So I think you’d be OK. Have you down for #3010.
Did I somehow miss a week?! My bad! My mind has been preoccupied of late fighting the good fight.
We lived in Ashland, OR for 3 1/2 years quite near the Rogue River and it is beautiful country.
Hmm… now I don’t remember where I left on in my leap of 10. Do you? 🙂
Ooops. Please keep fighting the good fight. The Rogue River is superb. You’ll get #130 next week.
Rafting the Rogue sounds like so much fun — those low numbers mean I’m getting a lot of your Oregon memories (which are mine too) and isn’t it a beautiful state!! In an entirely different way, so is Arizona — as based on your pictures here and in the previous post (and also on my memories)… Enjoyed it all == keep on having fun in Q and the surrounding area. And I guess I’ll go high this week just to be different. Maybe 9998?
The beauty of nature can be found almost everywhere if we look for it. Thought you’d like the OR pics. Have you down for #9998.
Count me in on seeing the bloodhound. Just love our picture the very very bestest but that second one is also wonderful. I hope you gave your former supervisor a copy of that great picture. How wonderful to have that framed as a memory of that moment in time. Really gorgeous shots Gaelyn. I’ll try 3592 for next week please.
Thanks Sherry. I figured you’d see something in that boulder. Yes, I did send her a copy and she was surprised not knowing I took it. Have you down for #3592.
I always love your canyon photos and your descriptions of the various hot and warm springs you have tried out. My number is 2020 this week.
Thanks Yogi. I may have to order one of those mugs so I can look at the canyon every morning. 😉 Have you down for #2020.
I see your hound dog too.
Next week: #427
Ain’t it cute? Have you down for #427.