This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 10 images chosen by readers from my photo files including a young prom miss and a not so young canyon hiker, both wearing a dress.
Diane and Nigel chose #207. The Kaibab Plateau on the North Rim has forests and meadows among the diverse ecosystems found at Grand Canyon.
Imkelina and Michael chose #2000. It almost feels like Zion National Park is in my back yard but I don’t get there very often as it’s extremely crowded during the summer. Yet when Pat visited in June of 2014 after showing off the Grand Canyon I took her to Zion for a different perspective looking up at canyon walls.
Jim and Diana chose #746, “as that is how far (in millions of miles) Saturn is to Earth at its closest approach.” This Wolf spider was way closer than that but I didn’t send it to outer-space, just outdoor space.
Pam and John chose #3542. A peek through the trees of SR67 from the Arizona Trail that runs from Mexico to Utah although I’ve only hiked a few miles of it in the park and forest including rim to rim. Here’s a challenge for these intrepid hikers.
Yogi chose #3. Dad said boats ran on beer so he named this boat “Six-Pac” and we spent many weekends on the Illinois river. Notice how far the water is down, almost like a tide, because when barges went by there was an undertow so we kids always got out of the water when a barge approached.
Donna chose #637. Lomaki Pueblo at Wupatki National Monument just north of Flagstaff, Arizona. I last visited during a stormy spring day in 2009 and really need to return.
Sherry and David chose #7. This takes me back to 1970 going to my boyfriend’s Prom when I was only a Sophomore. I remember we were having a fight, don’t remember about what, and I got home on time for probably the first time of our six months of dating.
Patti and Abi chose #380. I’m celebrating completing the second rim to rim hike across Grand Canyon in 2009 by posing like a Condor in flight on the South Rim. Yes, I often hike in a skirt.
Jodee and Bill chose #232, one of three in a panorama of the Bright Angel Trail near 3-mile rest-house below the South Rim Grand Canyon and a view of the North Rim where I started. This is from the first time I hiked rim to rim in 2008 and wondered if I’d make it out of that big ditch. Being it was Cinco de Mayo my mantra for the last mile was “crusty, salty, margarita” yet by the time I topped out was too tired to drink anything but more water.
Sallie and Bill get #117 for the number of words in their comment. A panoramic shot of my summer 2007 backyard while I camp-hosted at Cave Creek in the Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon. Nice because the campground was only four miles from where I worked as a Ranger at Oregon Caves National Monument.
My choice this week–added to prints for sale–the gorgeously grand gift of a rainbow pouring into Grand Canyon while I enjoyed dinner on the Lodge veranda with visitors.
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?
I asked Facebook followers which two of these photos are not like the rest? Only the third and seventh were not taken on public lands.
Our photo this week could be here in Washington if you added some moss:)
Love the skirt!!
#4322
Not quite as dense a forest as most in WA, especially the peninsula. Hope John isn’t feeling claustrophobic. Have you down for #4322.
That last photo is truly stunning but I think my favourite is you flying like a condor. As ever a lovely set of photos 2907 for next week please. Hope all is well, have a good weekend Diane and Nigel
Thanks Diane. Been another busy week with little reading or writing of blogs. You get #2907.
A the Celtic fest yesterday saw a T-shirt “It’s a Kilt, if I was wearing anything underneath it’d be a Skirt”. Too many mosquitoes to be hiking in either! Wow – talking about being in the right place at the right time you rainbow rules!
I see 1905 (year of controller powered flight) was recently taken, I’ll request 1913 the year of the Great Dayton Flood for next week. Thx
It’s a Kilt. No mosquitoes in Grand Canyon. You get #1913.
Love your trail mantra, but even that wouldn’t get me on a canyon hike these days! Absolutely love the pic of your celebrating pic :-)))) 6560 for next week please.
Was a good mantra but I won’t be hiking the canyon again. #6560 for next week.
Love your opening description. Couldn’t wait to see the pictures. Well I have to say that rainbow pouring into Grand Canyon is hard to beat but you in the prom dress is giving it a run. So glad I chose that. I like to hike in skirts too. Makes certain things a lot easier. Though I avoid them if I’m in poison ivy territory. Really like your backyard at Cave Creek and the Lomaki Pueblo. Definitely think John and Pam should hike the Arizona Trail. Since 7 was so good to me, I’ll try 17 for next week.
That rainbow was definitely a score. Love being in the right place at the right time. Skirts are so comfortable. Don’t think I would have hiked in the prom dress. 😉 You get #17 for next week.
I love all the shots. I am intrigued by the Arizona trail. It seems that we have a lot more interstate trails than before. My research on a few of them kind of tell me that many are only loosely described.
The Arizona trail has taken a long time to all be connected. Put it on your list. You get #998.
And my number for next week is 998
Love the Cave Creek shot — we’ve camped there so it was perfect for ‘my’ picture that I didn’t even choose for myself (thank you). Loved the prom and the hiker both in skirts. (Just read an article about a woman hiking the Florida everglades trail and how she always wears a dress when hiking — she had hiked every trail in the country i think. She said easy to put on and off, cheap to buy, and nice not to have to unbutton, unsnap etc for those ‘necessary stops’…. made sense to me.
Enjoyed all the pictures and before I forget (if I’m not already too late): 819 next time.
Where haven’t you camped? 😉 That’s cool that you camped at “my” campground. Skirts are usually my hiking preference for all of those reasons. You get #819 for next week.
Next week: #647
#647 it is.