This week’s Foto Friday Fun features eight images chosen by readers from my photo files including a funny family photo at the beach.
Pam and John chose #4322. When visiting Port Elizabeth, South Africa my friend Jonker toured me all over town seeing cultural and natural sites with the Mannville Outdoor Theater in St. George’s Park including a mix of history in an outdoor setting.
Diane and Nigel chose #2907. Having lived in South Africa they will understand my love for the land. While visiting in 2013 Swartberg Pass was my favorite drive out of about a dozen mountain passes. Possibly the rocky landscape reminded me of the Southwest.
Jeff chose #1913, “the year of the Great Dayton Flood.” Although I love the Suspension Bridge trail in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa, I wouldn’t want to be on the bridge if the Storms River flooded.
Jodee and Bill chose #6560. Another shot at Tsitsikamma National Park the following year’s visit as the sun set into the Indian Ocean. Hope they are getting some colorful sunsets into the Pacific Ocean.
Sherry and David chose #17. Although I’ve never been keen on the state of Texas I sure did enjoy the winter visits with family, despite the humidity. Dad loved to drive his big Lincoln on the beach at San Padre Island. Mom and his sister Kay collected shells while I took photos. This was in 2005 and they are all gone now, but I will always carry the memories.
Yogi chose #998. The first day of my first visit to Kruger National Park in South Africa, 2010, and I saw lions and the rest of the Big Five. These two young males are just growing their manes and will probably sleep on the warm road over night with the rest of their pride.
Sallie and Bill chose #819. They may soon be seeing mushrooms where they are in Oregon but not like these stone toadstools in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah.
Donna chose #647. Doesn’t get much better than the views from Crazy Jug Point during July 2010 monsoon with a double rainbow gift. I’ll be out there next week and hope to get that lucky again.
My choice from a recent drive into the Kaibab National Forest. Due to snow weight the young aspen saplings often bend and to me look like they’re dancing. This time of year they get to dance in a field of wildflowers like these lupines.
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 always love the scenery pictures, but I think the big cats won me over this week.
Next week: #657
Seeing lions in the wild is a most amazing experience. You get #657.
Wow…I like both the lions and the aspen. Tough choice!
Let’s go with 9517 this week.
Thanks. Me too. Have you down for #9517.
My favorite, the aspen. 23 for next week?
Me too Ann. #23 for you next week.
So much of the South Africa landscape does resemble the southwest here! Lovely photos! The lions are gorgeous. Love those little black tips on the tail that stick up! Your dancing aspen are a great find, especially the lupine below:)
#8040
Thanks Pam. Each lion I saw had a unique personality. You get #8040 next week.
Oh you know I love it all …. we sure do have mushrooms in Oregon, but certainly nothing remotely like those. Amazing how much those formations do look like giant ‘shrooms tho! The lions are just amazing and I remember them from your trip … all of which I enjoyed vicariously.
We’ve been on that beach on the TX gulf coast and as Oregonians were (and still are) sorta’ shocked that it is OK to drive all over the beach. We did have our RV somewhere out on the sand and it was almost free to stay there. Except no electricity and I am spoiled so we moved to a park when we could get a place.
My favorite is actually the crooked aspens because it’s a great photo and because you explained what made them like that. #100 next week please (I’m looking at your sidebar and thinking about how I need to contact a couple of those 100 and the icon below as well.0
Didn’t realize you could camp on that Texas beach with an RV. Maybe because my parents wanted hookups too. Have you down for #100. Please do contact as many of them as it takes.
Wow Gaelyn what great pictures this week. Just love the dancing aspens and the WOW double rainbow over the canyon. That is a calendar photograph. Actually so is the aspens and lupine. Well and then the Lions. Just can’t believe you saw them right there on the road. Of course I love all beaches. I’ve never been to the Indian Ocean or even to South Padre but am happy to see your memories of it. How about #27 for next week?
The potential photos for a 2018 calendar file has so many pics I’ll struggle to choose. #27 for you next week.
I must have forgotten to put in my number for this week, but next week put us in for #390 as I think that’s where I left off in my leaps of 10.
I love Aspen trees, they are one of my favorite trees. I didn’t know the weight of snow would bend the trunks like that. Funny that you see them as dancing because that’s how I see Aspen leaves when they “dance” in the breeze. They’re just so pretty!
I see the leaves as dancing too. That’s one active tree.
My bad leaving you out this week. #390 for next week.
Love our ocean pic and wish we were still on the Pacific where it is cooler than it is inland 🙁 The lions made me laugh – they are the kings after all!! Nature is so wonderful to give us dancing trees in the forest :-)))))
6011 for next week please.
I am behind on reading your travels. Heck, I’m behind on just about everything right now. Sorry to hear it’s hot again where you are. #6011 for next week.
The double rainbow over the Grand Canyon is awesome. For next week I’d like 1796 the year George Newcom built the first tavern in Dayton.
Thanks Jeff. 1796 sounds like a very important number in Dayton.
I’m finally catching up to reading your posts. I truly love following your adventures.
Thanks Kat. I’m trying to catch up on my adventures too and just returned from three days at Crazy Jug.