This week’s Foto Friday Fun features ten images chosen by readers including several highlights of my life’s journey and lots of sedimentary rock with some metamorphic and a little igneous too.
Rita chose #7119. Marvelous shapes and textures found in the dry Southwest while hiking Upper Buckskin Gulch proved water flows sometimes to create mud that dries and curls.
Diane and Nigel chose #812. Rafting the Colorado River in 2011 was a highlight of my life’s adventures. Not sure what day this shot was taken but it doesn’t matter because the journey was awesome from day one.
Pam and John chose #2180. One of the highlights of camping at Anza-Borrego was hiking up Coyote Mountain to the rock snake. This was the view coming back to camp. Can you pick out my unit?
Sallie and Bill chose #9999. When in South Africa I actually see quite a few sunrises. Early morning is a good time to see wildlife when on safari in Pilanesberg Game Reserve.
Sue chose #77. I made this stained glass Grandfather clock, about two feet tall, as a gift while living in Wenatchee, Washington in 1986.
Patti and Abi chose #560. Looking past remaining walls of Wupatki Pueblo, one of the ruins in Wupatki National Monument, Arizona.
Yogi chose #7210 with the help of Random dot org. The granite in Joshua Tree National Park erodes into interesting shapes with holes.
Sherry and David chose #593 “for Winnona’s license plate.” Their RV Winnona wouldn’t make it to Havasu Canyon and I wasn’t too sure about me making the “trail” to the base of Mooney Falls.
Donna chose #827. Yes, there are toadstools in the desert, made of rock like these found in Grand Staircase-Escalante.
Jeff chose #1893, “the year Rancho Tecate was founded.” I found no Ranchos while hiking in the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa. Though there is grazing land below.
My choice from March as I’m labeling photos from then, snowy Eastern Sierras backdrop for the granite boulders of the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California.
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?
My choice this week is No 812 Rafting the Colorado River. This is a sport I always fancied trying, but that was much earlier in life I don’t think I would have the nerve now Gaelyn. No 20 is my choice for next weeks Foto Friday. Thanks for great photo’s.
I would raft the Colorado River again in a heartbeat. With the river flowing twice normal every rapid was the best roller coaster ride ever. At any age. You get #20 next week.
As always a stunning set of photos. I would love to raft the Colorado so long as it is not too angry 🙂 We hope all is well there and that you are warmer than we are! Diane and Nigel (1512 for next week please,)
Thanks Diane. The river is awesome and I’d raft it again for sure. Mornings are almost 0C but days are up to almost 20C. I would like warmer, but it is winter. Stay warm. You get #1512 next week.
Of course, they are all great pictures, but I have to prefer the contrast of the desert of the Alabama Hills against the snow of the Eastern Sierra. I’m changing the number I had in mind for this week to 2010 – the year you hiked to the base of Moody Falls, damn that is an adventure!
Thanks Jeff. I like to see snow from a low desert looking up, not in it. 😉 #2010 it is. That was a gnarly climb down.
What a week of photos!! We have been to several of these places. And, of course, any photo with rocks is tops for me:) We are heading Borrego Springs in January. We’ve made that hike up to the snake while boondocking out there. The Toadstools are so cool and not difficult to get to. So glad I found Waputki NM. Such a neat place. The grandfather clock is beautiful!! Someone got a very special gift.
#4171
I figured you’d been to many of these places. #4171 for next week.
Lots of great shots today, and I’ll pick the toadstools because it was such a fun spot to hike around the last time Mo and I were in the Grand Staircase. I am wondering if they are still protected or are out of the new hopefully contested boundary. The clock was cool, and reminds me of the years my daughter lived in Wenatchee. She moved there just a year later in 87. I spent many years driving between Coeur d Alene and Wenatchee to visit my grandkids.
Ok I’ll play again> 1945 the year I was born
Thanks Sue. I’m not sure if the toadstools are in the proposed cut area. But that fight is still on. I was in Wenatchee into 1988. We may have crossed paths somewhere. Small big world. 😉 You get #1945 next week. Thanks for playing along.
Beautiful shots, as you have spoiled us. I am intrigued by the Alabama Hills. It is getting close to being on my bucket list.
953 is my number next week as per random dot org.
You should definitely put Alabama Hills on your bucket list. Have you down for #953.
I’ve never seen anything like those mud curls in Buckskin Gulch. Great picture. Rafting the Colorado has always been my dream. What an experience. Love that picture. Beautiful moon shot in South Africa. That clock is wonderful, what an incredible gift for someone. You are so creative. Not sure I would have gone down after seeing that Descend at your own risk sign as you came out of that hole in our picture. Glad to know someone was with you to take the picture. Your last 3 pictures are simply calendar worthy. It is just not possible to say which of the things you post is ever my “favorite”. I’ll try 5155 for next week.
Thanks Sherry. I think the mud curls look like false eyelashes. 🙂 I will forever be open to rafting the Colorado again, and again. It was a spooky climb down to the base of the falls. You get #5155 next week.
Fun post as always Gaelyn — I have never in my life seen curled mud! Wow — I do understand how it happens but gosh incredible. I love the gift of the SA sunrise — a perfect golden ball rising behind that beautiful scenery — thanks for that (especially because I know you are not usually an early riser!). It’s getting crazy around here because of the Holidays and I am already so far behind on visiting and blogging, but I will try to be here next weekend — and I will choose (if you have room) # 9879… a random # on a note posted on my bulletin board — end of somebody’s phone number (probably somebody I am supposed to call for some reason, but instead I am having fun visiting your blog!).
In case I don’t get here until after the date — Merry Christmas!!!
Thank you Sallie. I’m getting better at seeing sunrises. You get #9879 next week.
Merry Christmas to you and Bill.
A very nice collection of photos this week. I love our ruins view and the moon scape.
The first photo reminds me of chocolate curls. 🙂
Next week: #570 Merry Christmas, Gaelyn!
Thanks Patti. #570 for you this week.
Next week: #837
#837 for you next week. Merry Christmas!