Foto Friday Fun 265

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including several from Grand Canyon and the most recent full moon.

Rita chose #798.  The Southwest is known for unusual rock formations caused by erosion of soft and hard layers sometimes leaving behind ‘toadstools’ like this one seen along SR89A near Cliff Dwellers Lodge and awesomely good restaurant.

Jim and Diana chose #283.  They like history so may have heard about Jim Owens, the first game warden on the North Rim before being designated a National Monument.  This is a shallow cave above where his cabin was located and presumably where he kept food chilled.  He befriended the iconic Brighty the burro to haul water from a nearby spring and hunted predators back in the day when that was more acceptable.  Of course there is the current change in protecting wolves and bears. 

Donna chose #1007.  This is what you’ll see at Jacob Lake before the North Rim opens followed by a locked gate.  In 2009 I experienced a little truck trouble on the way to work at the North Rim.

Debi chose #2014.  She’s a morning beach walker and sees way more sunrises than I do, except when I’m on vacation and especially in South Africa.  Bonus during my 2013 visit to Tsitsikamma National Park when I watched the waves from the porch of my chalet.

Yogi chose #6363 because he turned 63 last month.  I turned 61 the month this shot was taken of a White-crowned sparrow on a boulder in Joshua Tree National Park.

Sue chose #7320, the amount she’s saving for a trip to Italy.  It would be cheaper to visit South Africa and go soak in the thermal Roman bath at Warmwaterberg Spa after a hike where I saw this succulent that looked like a Jade plant on steroids.

Diane and Nigel chose #2704 one of 15 in a long panorama.  Enjoyed this long valley view from Swartberg Pass along with many other passes I drove in South Africa.

Gayle chose #1548.  This is a two photo panorama of the beginning of the Widforss Trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  Named after painter Gunnar Widforss, the trail winds through forest and offers a few views into the canyon.

Sherry and David chose #9999, “for absolutely no reason at all.”  Guess my reason for hiking the Estes Canyon Trail was to see more of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.  I believe they would hike it too.

Rosemary chose #5353, “as it’s hubby’s birthday.”  International hoop dancer Derrick Suwaima Davis entertains at Heritage Days on the North Rim Grand Canyon and here his son performs the Eagle dance.

Sallie and Bill chose #3893, “the last four digits of a phone number I actually just had to punch in.”  This is one of at least four Wild Dogs I saw in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Jeff chose #271, “the distance from home to see the first west coast inter-planetary launch.”  Nowhere near that distance from “Uncle Jimmy’s” cabin that was in this meadow to his food cave above those boulders to the left.  The same cave as the second photo above.

Pam and John chose #2704.  Low clouds both highlight and hide features in Grand Canyon from the Walhalla overlook on the North Rim.

My choices for this week are attempts at the full moon, or almost full anyway.  I bought the Photo Pills app and it works really cool for lining up sun and moon, rise and set, plus milky way over the real-time horizon.

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.

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Linking this week to SkyWatch Friday.

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