This week’s Foto Friday Fun includes ten images chosen by readers from my photo files including plants, minerals, and animals.
Diane and Nigel chose #907. Sandstone, up close and personal has a lot of character lines, color, and texture making a hike past the narrow walls of Wire Pass slot canyon all the more interesting.
Kelley chose #8252. Guess you all might know this is my favorite animal and I really could sit for days and watch the herds gather at a waterhole, large or small like this one at Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa.
Pam and John get #104 for the number of words in their comment. From back in the early 1990s when working at Mt St Helens. In the blast zone I often wondered how some stumps kept hanging on.
Sherry and David chose #8900. Seeing tall trees like the Camel-thorn growing on desert dunes in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park South Africa was a little unexpected.
Donna chose #587 and gets to see me hiking the Widforss trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon.
Mary Lou chose #6920. Another close up view, this time of a Joshua Tree in the national park with the same name in California.
Yogi chose #5000. Very similar to the boulders in Joshua Tree but this time at Alabama Hills near Lone Pine California.
Jodee and Bill chose #8390. Lots of tall grasses for grazing at Mountain Zebra National Park in South Africa.
Patti and Abi chose #320. Guess this one speaks for itself.
Jeff chose #8595 because those are the temperatures he’s experiencing in Ajo, Arizona. I believe he would have preferred the February temperatures in the 60s when I saw this Fairy-duster blooming along Darby Well Road near Ajo.
My choice is the lupine along the Cape Final trail a week ago.
This week has been both crazy and productive but no photos. Monday the seven hour drive to Yarnell took ten hours with napping stops along the way because I’ve been either sick or suffering allergies since Saturday. Either way, my head is totally plugged up, I’m coughing up a storm (or something else indescribable), and generally feel like shit. But I made it to a Tuesday dentist appoint. Lots of rest and Berta pampering me Wednesday. Camper loaded Thursday morning followed by way too much Prescott shopping and finally a delightful green and gold ponderosa view just north of Flagstaff for the night. Friday the last four hours home to the North Rim. Well, maybe a stop at Navajo Bridge for a possible baby condor sighting.
Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories. Join in by leaving a number from 1-9999 in your comment below.
Have a favorite this week?
I hope that you are on the mend, nothing worse than a blocked up nose and coughing continuously. I was expecting you to take a break from Friday fun knowing how you were feeling.
I love our shot of the sandstone, interesting, and of course the elephants. Having said that though I love them all . 1606 please for next week.
Take care and get better soon, hugs Diane and Nigel
The cough and nose stuff is getting better but still not gone. May need a few more days off. You get #1606.
The sandstone is very interesting up close. I also liked your purple flowers.
Next week: #597
Thanks Donna. #597 for you.
Thanks for choosing a number for us. I was surprised I forgot. Our photo was perfect! We loved our visit to Mt. St. Helen’s on a motorcycle several years ago. Hope you are beginning to feel better:)
#6016
#6016 for you.
Hope that you are feeling better. Enjoyed all the photos especially mine of the Joshua Tree and yours of the lupine. Please put me down for 2206 for next week- Mary Lou
Thanks Mary Lou. #2206 for you.
My allergies are awful too. How can it be so bad so far apart? The cough is miserable but Zyrtec helps. I’m having a terrible time sleeping. Hope you don’t have that part. I just love lupine. It’s all over Maine now and it makes me smile here and in your lovely picture. Are those arrowheads your collection? Color me envious if so. They are fantastic. The picture looking out through the grasses to the distant hills and darkening skies is a wonderful shot. South Africa is beautiful. Love seeing you out hiking. Some day I’m going to be with you in a place just like that. But my favorite today has to be the elephants. So many wild elephants just makes my heart sing. I’ll try # 4605 for the zip code we are now in.
I’m not sure it’s allergies anymore. At least I’m sleeping, a lot. The arrowheads are all reproductions. I’ve never found one. As you know, elephants make my hearts sing too. #4605 for you. Thank you for the lovely comment.
Oh! I love the grasses :-)))) That stump at Mt St Helens looks like it’s ready to walk itself off the hillside! Have to love the elephants, and be a bit green with envy that you saw them like this.
2350 for next week please. Hope you’re soon feeling 100%!
Thanks. #2350 for you. Still not up to snuff but doing a lot of snuffling.
Gotta go with the Lupine for the your best of show. It grows so tall in upper Yosemite and the fields are awesome. Please put me down for 1929 next week – the height (656) + length (1273) of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.
I love the way wildflowers grow different sizes depending on their environment. You get #1929.
I love the elephant photos. They are fascinating animals. Years ago at a Tulsa Zoo behind the scenes event we got to talk the guy over the elephants and he described how sensitive and intelligent they are and that it took them several months to get used a new employee working with them.
I may never see them in the wild so a zoo is invaluable but for some reason they don’t look too happy there.
I get that zoos are the only place some will every see animals like elephants. Yet they are too big in size and personality to be caged. No number this week?
Augh! I missed this until today. My excuse is that my brain is distracted by the process of waiting for our visas to come through.
Very cool collection of arrow heads, not something everyone has.
I can well-empathize with the allergy symptoms. It’s exhausting and unless you walk in the path of the sufferer, you can’t understand. And, for me, “nothing” helps, I’ve tried everything. Most people welcome spring because of the natural beauty and the rebirth of so much life, but for me, it’s hell, until the blooming passes. Hope you’re feeling better.
Next week: #330
Being I’m new to this allergy BS I now sympathize more with sufferers. I still like spring, but summer is always my favorite season. I’d be happy to follow it all year long. So what kind of visa do I need for that. Crossing fingers you get news soon. Next week, #330.