This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including multiple seasons at Grand Canyon, some cute frogs, and more.
Diane and Nigel chose #1105. Every year is different as the North Rim Grand Canyon prepares to open in spring. This snowy view greeted me on April 30, 2010.
Jim and Diana chose #1859, “the year of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry.” Monsoon season is that time of year that brings rain often followed by the gift of a rainbow. Saw this double beauty after an early dinner at the Kaibab Lodge not far from the North Rim grand Canyon.
MoHobyDick chose #523, for their 20th anniversary. They could celebrate at the North Rim Grand Canyon and visit Harvey Meadow. But they’d have to wait until fall to see these golden Aspen.
Jeff chose #1911, “the year Solvang (sunny meadow) was founded by Danes from the midwest.” These semi sunny meadows are part of the Monks Cowl Nature Reserve where I hiked in the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa during March 2010.
Sue chose #199, “for the highway with the Rough and Ready site.” [from last week] This site, looking downstream, is where the silver bridge crosses the Colorado River at ~88.1 miles from Lee’s Ferry. From here it was all uphill my first time hiking rim to rim across Grand Canyon in 2008.
Jodee and Bill chose #3060. Jodee isn’t all that keen on heights but she’s been challenging that so maybe would climb the 120’ Dry Park fire tower. Having climbed it before, I stayed at the bottom with Bill and Gayle while Jim climbed to the top.
Yogi chose #6363. The clay base Cottonwood Road in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is frequently not open if it rains in southern Utah. Yet when you can dive it the geologic formations are worth seeing more than once.
Rita chose #5347. During the winter of 2014/15 I visited Anza-Borrego State Park in California a couple times camping along Rockhouse Trail and enjoyed many gorgeous sunsets.
Sallie and Bill chose #3917. Jumpup Point is the most remote place I’ve been on the rim of Grand Canyon. It’s also not easy to get to. Looking below onto the Esplande and up canyon.
Sherry and David chose #1170, “for no reason at all.” The reason I have this shot of myself on the roof of the old 5th-wheel is because I asked Berta who was standing below to take it. I would have been getting ready to roll to the North Rim on 4-20-09.
Patti and Abi chose #720. This shot of Echo Cliffs along Highway 89 in Arizona was taken only days before the previous photo when I took the truck camper north before returning for the 5th-wheel.
My choice from a recent walk with a friend in Model Creek Canyon near Yarnell. How many Canyon Rock Frogs can you see in that crack in the rock?
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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As always a fabulous post with great photos, I think I can see four frogs 🙂 Love our shot but only as a photo neither of us are very fond of the cold or snow. Love the view across the hills at the Berg, and of course a rainbow is always top of the list when it comes to choices. 1805 for next week please. PC on its way to Yarnell, hope it arrives safely. Hugs Diane and Nigel.
Thanks. I get that about the snow. Love how green the Drakensberg were. Thanks for the PC. #1805 for next week.
Oh wow! At first glance I thought those were rocks until I read the word frogs! That’s crazy!
I like our photo pick for this week, nothing like the open road!
I could never climb that tower, wicked fear of heights but also it looks exhausting!
Next week #730 and I’ll try not to forget! 🙂
Those frogs blend right in. The climb is long but so is the view. #730 for you next week.
The green meadows are inviting, the rock frogs amazing the way they camouflage themselves, but I like Jumpup Point. A quiet place to reflect. Next week I’d like 516, the day a favorite blogger, Lynne Braden of Winnie Views, passed away.
I am so sorry to hear about Lynne yet know she deserves to go. #516 in her honor.
Nice variety of superb photo’s Gaelyn. My favourite this week is Model Creek Canyon Nr Yarnell. Would like No 8959 for next week please. Thanks.
Thank you Rita. The canyon provided a much needed getaway and the frogs were a bonus. #8959 for next week.
Hello, Gaelyn! Thank you for your beautiful photos, especially the ones that bring back fond memories of our days on the North Rim as volunteers. I found the photo of the Canyon Rock Frogs very interesting. When I saw the photo at first glance, I tried to make out a rattlesnake but quickly realized that there were too many eyes. Then I read your words below and mystery was solved.
I am going to pick number 1951. That was the year we immigrated to the United States, arriving on the troopship “General R. M. Blatchford”.
Thank you George. It’s fun to prompt the memories. #1951 for you.
I see 4 of those interesting frogs, so I will choose #4 for next week (or add some zeros if somebody else had the same idea). Anyway, that is a fun picture and I love ‘my’ remote view (and always appreciate when you show places I’d never be able to get to even if we’re lucky enough to get back to the Park someday. Enjoyed seeing you up on the roof!
You get #4 for the four frogs. I may never get back to that remote view either so I’m glad to have the photos.
The view of Jumpup point is my favorite this week. Pure spectacular, if that makes any sense.
My number next week according to random dot org is 9651.
I would love to be soaking up the solitude at Jumpup Point right now. That makes total sense to me. You and random get #9651.
I don’t think I’ll ever be ready for that kind of heights!! Do they give you a safety rope to climb that?? Love that amazing sky at Anza Borrego. The green in South Africa looks like it was painted!
You’d have to bring your own safety rope.
One year we will be in the area when we can finally drive Cottonwood Road! We’ve tried from both ends, once it rained, once it closed because of too much damage. What a fantastic sky over Anza Borrego! Love that photo down into that area of the Canyon:) Oh, my! Those frogs are so darn cute. Can’t believe you saw them.
#5081
I know you’ll get to Cottonwood Road eventually. #5081 for you.
Foto Friday Fun is always a collection of such wonderful pictures and each one is my favorite until I see the next one. So here are my thoughts of some of them. The green valley of Monks Cow Nature Reserve is stunning! So Green!! I really love looking downstream on the Colorado and envying you the rim to rim hikes you have done. I never seem to be able to get great shots like the one of the fire tower that truly give the feeling of how tall my subject is. The skies above Cottonwood road in that wonderful picture and those of winter in Anza-Borrego are so beautifully captured. I think being anointed by a sunbeam is reason enough for the shot of you on the roof. I’ll have number 5192 for next week please.
Thanks Sherry. Sometimes I look at the poor quality of the old photos and cringe a little. But they still bring back memories. I take a lot of multiple frame panoramas to get shots like the tower. #5192 for you.
Gaelyn, photo #523 is perfect! We have plans to be heading north this autumn, and will now put Harvey Meadow on our list of locations to visit. Thank you so much!
Thanks. Almost anywhere you go on the North Kaibab during fall will give you amazing colors.