This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by seven readers include ancient rock, a classic car, and where I sit my lazy old bones. Do you see a theme here?
Sue chose #1919. A view I enjoyed while backpacking in the Drakensburg Mountains and camped just below those ‘Dragon’s teeth’.
Yogi chose #5001. If you visit the North Rim Grand Canyon during early August check out the Heritage Days celebration. I’ve seen International Hoop dancer Derek Suwaima-Davis at this event for 10 years.
Rita chose #9531. Saw this 1932 Ford Roadster at the Yarnell Car Show in 2015. Looks like a fun drive.
Diane and Nigel chose #206. During their tour of the American Southwest I’m not sure they visited Zion National Park. This fall shot from 2008 in the Virgin River Canyon was taken along the paved Riverside Walk before I continued upstream in the river.
Jeff chose #457, “the number of kids advancing with Aj from her middle school.” This is one shot in a two image panorama with rock temples in the middle, no school, as seen from Walhalla overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Jim and Diana chose #1530, the height of the peak of Cadillac Mountain were they’ve been playing in Acadia National Park. No peaks in the Illinois farmland west of the Chicago suburbs. Much further west than I used to drive in my youth.
Sherry and David chose #137. The Square Tower in Cliff Palace from when I worked in Mesa Verde National Park summer of 2005. Note the dark color around the lower doorway where oils from countless hands have touched the rock to look inside.
My choices: a shot from the recent Yarnell Fire Memorial Run that went past several times, and where I’d rather be sitting on the shed porch reading and enjoying the cool breeze along with my secretary.
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Lovely set of photos and yes we drove through Zion canyon but went no further. I love the last shot of the flowers, amazing.
806 for next week please. Best wishes Diane and Nigel
Glad you got to see Zion, looking up at the rock after looking down from the North Rim. #806 for you.
Oops jumped two posts on the phone, last photos here were of Yarnell memorial run 😊. Hugs
Love the secretary, Gaelyn. Diana’s mom had one that was similar to that…less the pen. Let’s do 8890 for the number of steps we did on Mr. Rockefeller’s carriage roads at Acadia yesterday.
After following Sherry and David down those carriage roads before I look forward to seeing them again now through your eyes. Acadia is so on my list. #8890 for those steps. 😉
I am curious if you signed in differently as it’s the first time your comment didn’t go to spam. Or maybe the stars just aligned correctly.
My favorite is #137. I love how intact the tower structure is. 🙂
For next Friday, how about #1956, the year my BFF was born. Her birthday is Sunday.
Those Puebloans were true masons yet time and the elements works on these structures. Happy Birthday to your BFF born in 1956.
Gorgeous shots of the Dragons Teeth and the Virgin River Canyon. I love my choice and the info on the oil from hands. Mesa Verde is one of my favorite places. Something sacred there. 731 next time?
Ancient rock speaks if we listen. Cliff Palace was one of those places. Happy sounds. #731 for you next week.
Lots of great photos this week. In 2006 we were able to score permits for a couple ranger tours to normally closed areas in Mesa Verde as part of its ‘open house’ Centennial. For next week I’d like 1977 the length of the OB Pier, the longest concrete pier on the west coast.
Good score. As a Ranger at Mesa Verde I saw some off the visitor radar sites. #1977 for you next week.
I still love the canyon shots, and you have an eye for photography so I love all your shots.
I remember, as a kid, being able to climb all over the place at Mesa Verde and not too many people around. Last time I was there, I was with Heather about 20 years ago and we couldn’t even get a parking space so we moved on. People are loving are parks to death! I think the answer is more parks.
1005 for me next week.
Justice for seasonal rangers is my motto now.
Thanks Alan. Sure am missing the canyon. Only because I was a Ranger did I get to “climb all over” the ruins. Visitors haven’t been able to do that for a long time. Totally agree we need more parks. Then maybe I’d have a job. #1005 for next week.
Loved that first photo that I got, Gaelyn. You are determined to get me to South Africa, aren’t you! 🙂 Also loved that shot of the Virgin River canyon in Zion. I have never managed to get into the wet part there. Keep thinking I would like to follow Mark and Bobbie around, but as the years go by I am getting a bit worried about that. LOL again. OK, how about 1987. The year of the Harmonic Convergence…remember that one? The world was supposed to change for the better…I wonder
I know you’ll love South Africa. I couldn’t keep up with Mark and Bobbie. I honestly don’t remember the Harmonic Convergence. But that could be because I lived in the Okanogan in Washington state in 1987 and we didn’t get anything but local news.
Well you knocked me right out with the first picture. I must go there and see it for myself. Is that possible as in must be a ranger or must have 4 WD? 3 nights there – oh sigh!!
Beautiful Salton Sea Sunset and what a picture from Tuweep overlook. The Lioness is a beauty what a face. Your last picture is spectacular I sure think it should win something in the North American nature photography contest. I’d like number 624 for next week please.
Hike, horse, or helicopter to Havasu Canyon and permit or reservations way in advance. #624 for next week.