This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers from my photo files with almost half the photos from the same place. Is that a coincidence considering all the possibilities. Plus #208 marks four years of Foto Friday Fun. And last Sunday was my birthday. So, next week pick a number from 1954 to 2017, for the years I’ve been alive.
Pam and John chose #3641, and figured out the commenting problem. Maybe they’ll share what they did different. Or I may have to sic the dragon on them. Just one of many amazing metal sculptures by Ricardo Breceda on display in Galleta Meadows. This post has seen a major number of recent views with all the major spring blooming going on around Borrego Springs, California.
Mary Lou chose #3242. Taken during the same winter 2015 as the photo above. But this time from a hike in Palm Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
Diane and Nigel chose #2403, using last week’s date. Unbelievably, this shot was taken on a different date from above but also in Anza-Borrego.
Sherry and David chose #9909. A baby water monitor seen in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa exactly four years ago today.
Patti chose #210. I believe hiking Grand Canyon is on her bucket list. Hope seeing the Devils corkscrew on the Bright Angel trail doesn’t change her mind. This shot was taken the first time I hiked rim to rim. And although this section is never easy, it gotten easier every time.
Jeff chose #4682 for the “next rotation of even numbers.” So he gets an even number of elephants seen in Kruger National Park, South Africa in February 2014.
Sallie gets #117 for the number of words in her last comment. I don’t know how she does it getting pics from one of her home states so regularly. This from a float on the Rogue River in Oregon back in July 2007.
Jim and Diana chose #1732 in honor of the year George Washington was born. This shot is of Bull Valley Gorge—instead of Valley Forge—along the Skutumpah Road in Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah.
Yogi chose #5300. And it’s back to Anza-Borrego, this time in February, for another Palm Canyon hike to see wildflowers with a bonus of Mountain sheep right along the trail.
My choice, because I’m a nepholographer, more amazing clouds at sunset over the Eastern Sierras from California’s Owens Valley. Do you enjoy nephelococcygia?
Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories. So remember, next week pick a number from 1954 to 2017, for the years I’ve been alive. Should be fun to see what that brings up.
Do you have a favorite this week?
Interesting that so many photos are from the Anza Borrego Desert area. We love that place and always enjoy the sculptures. This is the first year we’ve been west and haven’t spent time here. Next fall we’ll be back for sure!
I didn’t do any magic trick to be able to comment. I just shut down to allow an update and I was able to comment!!
#1978
Been two years now since I made it back to AB and know I missed an amazing bloom this year. Wow, maybe the comment problem isn’t from my end. I’m terrible about allowing updates myself. Glad that did the trick. Have you down for #1978.
Happy Birthday! I pick 1957 for the year I was born. Thank you.
Thanks Cheryl. Guess we’re not too far apart in age. Have you down for #1957.
Beautiful pictures! It’s hard to pick a favorite, but 210 is great. How about plain old 1954?
Thanks. I do like that view of the Devils Corkscrew, from the top. Have you down for #1954.
Beautiful collection of photos this week. I would love to hike the GC but not sure I’d make it back up again! We’ve done the mule trip twice and that was an awesome (if not pain-inducing) experience.
Next week #220
No matter how you go down and up, something hurts. Have you down for #220.
Love all the AB pics, and the Utah gorge is beautiful. 1971 for the year Bill and I met 🙂
Hard to go wrong in the SW, as you know. Have you down for #1971.
These are all really great pictures. Anza Borego has been on my list for 7 years now so all pictures of it are always welcome. Really love that shot of the canyon trail and the elephants in Kruger. Hope you’ll be going back there perhaps next winter. I need to do more cloud searching. I did a lot of it as a kid on my back in the grass. I guess that was somehow before chiggers. I’ll have # 1980 please.
Thanks Sherry. Keep Anza-Borrego on your list like I do South Africa. And if you’re someplace with no chiggers, I hate those things, lay back and watch the clouds little girl. Or maybe just look up. Have you down for #1980.
I like clouds too. Does that mean I have that disease you mention on your last (beautiful) photo? (LOL — it really does sound like a medical condition — I am going to look up the word — I think I guessed, but I’m checking it out for sure). Love your choice for my picture and if I didn’t trust you implicitly I’d suspect you of cheating to make me homesick (which is a bit of a problem for me this time of year) … but I love the memories. Our grandson and his wife floated that river last summer when we were in Oregon … great stories. Loved all the other pics too — the elephants shine like gold!
Happy Belated BD — and for next week before I forget, I will pick 1958, the year our oldest was born. (Holy heck we are elderly.) Thanks for doing this fun weekly.
Welcome to the nephelococcygia club. No cheating from me, just the luck of the draw. I know that feeling of being pulled back to a place. I start back at the North Rim May 1, and I’m just about ready. The Rogue is gorgeous. Have you down for #1958.
Nope, I’m not a nepholomaniac, but I am glad you enjoy it. I imagine that I am a cloud, sometimes way up in the air, sometimes really close, but always moving.
I like the Bull Valley Gorge pic among all your great photos today.
I am going for 1955 next week.
What a wonderful vision and way to see the world. Have you down for #1955.
Happy belated birthday! Thanks for all the wonderful photos. Please put me down for 1969 ( the year I got married) for next week- Mary Lou
Thanks. Have you down for #1969.
For the year I was born: 1959
You got it.
A great set of photos as always and I think your last photo of the sunset is amazing. Having said that, I like our photo of you at Anza-Borrego almost as much. 2005 for next week please, the year we bought our house in France. Hope all is well. Diane and Nigel
Hard to beat a grand sunset. Have you down for #2005. BTW, thanks for the postcard.
I choose your favorite because I learned that unbeknownst to me I’m also a nepholomaniac!! Thanks for the new words to my vocabulary and happy belated Bday. I’ll pick 1997 for this week!
Welcome to the cloud club. Have you down for #1997.