This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including South African wildlife and ancient Native ruins.
Susie chose #1019 because it’s her birthday today!!!! Her photo is a view she may have seen when leaving the Kaibab Plateau if her and Gus headed east on SR89A when they visited me at the North Rim way back when. There’s an overlook with this view of House Rock Valley and the Vermilion Cliffs in northern Arizona.
Lisa chose #1030. This shot taken less than ten minutes after the above shot now in House Rock Valley.
Jodee and Bill chose #8211. I could watch elephants all day, and especially young ones like this at play. This was my third visit to Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa during March 2014.
Yogi chose #7659. Not quite as fascinating to watch as the above but I do find hyenas fun to watch, especially the pups, and from a distance as they really do smell rotten.
Pam and John chose #3101. A spent quite a bit of winter 2014/15 in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California. While there I watched a lot of stormy weather like this over the San Ysidro Mountains to the west.
Diane and Nigel chose #1210. The Iris is first flower to bloom for Spring in Yarnell, Arizona.
Steve chose #612. From my first visit in 2009 to Wupatki National Monument where Southwest Native Peoples lived less than 1000 years ago.
Jeff chose #2117, “the final score of the lightening delayed SDSU vs Air Force football game.” If I’d been scoring it would have been 1, for how many sea otters I saw at Tsitsikamma National Park in South Africa from my chalet porch in 2013.
Sherry and David chose #8473. The antelope-like animals in South Africa look very different than in the US. These Springbuck were seen at Mountain Zebra National Park and in other parks I visited.
Rita chose #3985. She likes to see photos of the Grand Canyon so this might work with a major difference of an in camera sketch. Not like I do that often. For the real and amazing views from Jumpup Point it’s worth following the link to the most remote place I’ve ever seen the canyon.
Sallie and Bill chose #622 for the “time it is at this moment.” And this photo captures a piece of time at Wupatki National Monument on the same day as above.
My choices are sunsets first one from home looking at the Weaver Mountains and the second one part way down Yarnell Hill on the Weaver Mountains across the valley and mountains beyond.
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?
_________________________________________________
If you have problems commenting try this: leave the cursor after the last word of your comment, then use the Tab key to move the cursor to the Name, Email, and Website boxes before you click the submit key. The Fatal Error message doesn’t seem to stop the comment from coming through. I’m working on it. Otherwise, feel free to comment at https://www.facebook.com/Geogpsy , use the contact form found below the header shot, or send an email. Please know I appreciate everyone who lands here and stays long enough to read. I really do like comments and try to respond to them all.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BTW, you can now shop for photo prints directly from this blog by clicking on the ‘Photography’ tab under the header image.
***************************************************************************
2019 Calendars are ready to ship.
Good morning Gaelyn. Thanks for the link to Jumpup Point. Those photo’s are spectacular. It looked very lonely and as you say very quiet. But its at a place like that you can sit in peace where your thoughts must be, “How beautiful this world is”. This week my favourite is the Elephants at Addo Elephant National Park. No 8989 for next week Thanks. Have a great weekend.
Thanks. Glad you followed the link. Gotta’ love elephants. #8989 for next week.
That last photo is spectacular, Gaelyn. It really has some depth to it.
This week, we will take 1481…the mileage from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to our winter home in Florida.
Thanks. #1481 for next week. Wondering if you’re there yet?
ALL your photos are awesome but I really like the ones taken in Africa and Arizona and the Grand Canyon and … you get the picture. Ha.
This week I think I will choose #2008, just because it’s in my head right now.
Thank you Steve. #2008 for next week.
The Yarnell sunsets are awesome! I say even unemployed rangers are also paid in sunsets. I followed the link to Jumpup Point – OMG, does it get any better than that?
Oops forgot to put in my number … I’d like 53 as I prepare to join the Snow Bird welcome party at the 53rd Borrego Days.
Whether Rangering or not, I always love sunsets. Glad you followed the link, Jumpup is the BEST yet getting there is a true challenge. #53 for next week. Have fun at AB.
Wonderful set of photos. Still on the phone but hope I will be back on computer ASAP. 1910 for next week please. Have a good weekend. Diane and Nigel
Thanks. I hope so too. #1910 for this week.
You are leading such an amazing life! Mine is so hum drum!!!!
I wish. This is all from the past. I don’t see your life as hum drum.
Very interesting picture of the canyon. I love the one of the elephants. I could look at it for a very long time. Can’t believe you saw them live and up close. Lucky lucky you. I’ll try 1102 for next week please
I could watch elephants for the rest of my life. #1102 for this week.
Today, I am partial to the Iris’s.
I am back to random dot org and they say my number is 440
Maybe thinking past winter to spring. #440 for this week.
Love my elephants. Seeing the smile on the baby’s face is beyond precious! We’ve had enough stormy clouds here in the east, but I still miss the desert’s storms and their big skies.
#150 for next week please.
Storms are very different east to west, especially better to me without the lingering humidity. #150 for this week.
I love when there are several photos of the wildlife from your South Africa trips. The elephants are beautiful and the hyenas are so cute. Love having the memories of Wupatki NM. We are heading to Borrego Springs for the month of Jan so we’ll be enjoying more of Anza Borrego!
I too love to see the South African wildlife again. #2201 for you this week.
Whoops! Next week # 2201
Loved the elephants and the springboks and the beautiful scenery. Followed the link to JumpUp Point — lovely to think of a place so quiet and so far from the noise and confusion. I could use a bit of that right now. if i’m not too late give me 179. no reason.
I think we can all use peace and quiet in nature. Have you down for #179.