This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 10 images chosen by readers including lots of mountains and a couple of old ruins.
Rita chose #7324. She’ll be happy to get another shot from Grand Canyon even if it mostly shows Humphrey Peak seen across canyon from the North Rim.
Diane and Nigel chose #1201. This mountainous view was seen along the Colorado River just north of Bullhead City, Arizona when Berta and I took a little trip to Laughlin, Nevada in 2012.
Yogi and random dot org chose #4736. One year to the day after the above picture was taken, the Outeniqua Mountain view from Wild Spirit Backpackers Lodge in Nature’s Valley, South Africa.
Pam and John chose #2110. These scattered rocks along the Transept Trail on the North Rim are the remains of a three-room abode around 1000 years old. The Ancestral Puebloans farmed during summer months on the rim of Grand Canyon. Not a bad place to live.
Jodee and Bill chose #2190. Amazing how much some of the landscapes in South Africa look like the Southwest desert. Well, except for the Black Wildebeests. This is at Camdeboo National Park.
Donna chose #867. I could watch ants all day. But didn’t see any during this rainy first visit to Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park near Kanab, Utah.
Jeff chose #5250, “the cost of a San Diego Parking ticket $52.50.” Although this is called a Laughing Dove, that’s no laughing matter. (And he’s fighting the ticket.) This dove hung out in camp at Forever Resort in Badplass, South Africa where there is a thermal waterslide.
Sherry and David chose #5224. February 2015 was a great year for flower blooms in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. This Brittlebush was everywhere along the Palm Canyon trail.
Patti and Abi chose #600. Another look at Humphrey Peak from a different perspective. This shot taken in 2009 from Citadel Pueblo in Wupatki National Monument, Arizona.
Sallie and Bill chose #111, their “oldest grandson’s 35th birthday.” And this is the oldest shot out of this week’s choices. Not only a giant root-wad but also a nursery tree seen along Quartz Creek trail in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington from 1992 when I worked as a Forest Ranger at Mount St. Helens.
My choice from this week is a crazy sunset sky over the Weaver Mountains as seen outside my Yarnell, Arizona door. Be ready for desert shots next as I’m not in Quartzsite, Arizona.
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?
That’s a great shot of Humphrey Peak across the Grand Canyon Gaelyn. My favourite today is No 1201 Mountain View along the Colorado River and I think I will choose number 4649 for next Friday Photo. Love all your photography whatever they are so thanks for sharing them with us.
Thank you Rita. I do love to share the memories and sometimes the old photos are decent. Have you down for #4649.
No favourite really this week, all fabulous shots though the tree is fascinating. Sorry I am not being very active at the moment my cough is getting me down and interrupted sleep does nothing for my moods!!! 1901 please for next week. Take care Diane and Nigel
Thanks Diane. Sure hope you two get feeling better. This is taking way too long. #1901 for you.
Great week of photos!! You know how I love ruins so our photo this week is perfect!! Boy the photo with the wildebeest sure does look like the southwest. I sure wish the brittle bush were blooming right now while we are in Anza Borrego. The bright yellow blooms sure do light up the desert floor. The clouds in your choice are just spectacular.
#9110
Thank you. I do enjoy seeing some of these oldies pop up. Not quite the right time of year and too dry for flowers where you are. Here in Quartzsite also. You get #9110.
Boy I sure do hope some day to see some of those desert blooms in person. Glad that was my picture for this week. For next week, I’ll try 1212 since that’s what time it is.
When the desert blooms it’s spectacular. Have you down for #1212.
I always love seeing nurse trees and also enjoyed the reminder of our other home , the Pacific Northwest. I would just love to be in the desert sometime when it is a good flower year — we never did really make that goal. Loved the travel photos as always. What about 9879 for next week… it is just part of my library card number which I just used to check out a couple of ebooks for free! Yay libraries!
I miss that lush growth of the PNW but not the rain. #9879 for you next week.
I’ve always loved the mountains.
Next week: #877
Mountains, deserts, forest, and beach, I love them all. You get #877.
My favorite is the scattered rocks of the 1000 year old abode. Just amazing that is something still there after all these years.
We don’t build houses to last like that. You get #3624.
Oops, random dot org says 3624 next week!!
Always interesting to see identical geological formations across the world – love the tufts!
Wonderful gnarly tree in Washington. They have so much character.
3020 for next week please.
South Africa has lots of sandstone bluffs. Have you down for #3020.
The nurse tree is a great specimen, there are lots of nurse logs/stumps also in the PNW, but not many nurse trees. I’d like #1829 the year Jumal Rancho was granted to Pio Pico.
Although I love the desert, I also love to see the lush life in the PNW just not this time of year. You get #1829.