This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including a lot of Southwest rock and my old Tonasket storefront.
Lisa chose #8152. An August monsoon storm created a white background for the Deva, Brahma, and Zoroaster temples as seen from the North Rim lodge Grand Canyon National Park.
Sue gets #132 for the number of words in her comment. Took this shot on the way out of Cliff Palace, up ladders, while leading a tour at Mesa Verde National Park in 2005. Upper left you can see where the tour starts.
Diane and Nigel chose #211. Spring 2008 was my first season working at Grand Canyon and my first rim to rim hike across the canyon. At this point I was about halfway up the nine-mile Bright Angel Trail to the South Rim.
Yogi chose #7912. Summer wildflowers linger into September while a touch of yellow shows Autumn is on the way along the East Rim trail on the Kaibab National Forest.
Sherry and David chose #1106. Southern Utah’s sandstone has been eroded into many shapes like these tee-pee rocks seen along Johnson Canyon Road in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Gail chose #1455. Walhalla overlook on the North Rim provides a glimpse of the Colorado River in the depths of Grand Canyon. Maybe next time she visits the southwest this will be one of the views.
Steve chose #138. During 2007 while working at Oregon Caves National Monument I was also the camp host at Cave Creek in the Siskiyou National Forest. Look closely across my yard to the right to see my old 5th-wheel RV home.
Pam and John chose #1101. An unusual sight, the auditorium in the Grand Lodge before the North Rim opened for the 2010 season.
Rita chose #7099. One of many species living in the Karoo National Park, South Africa.
Jeff chose #2131, “the address of the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park.” One shot of a panorama in another type of museum called the Owl House where Helen Martin lived and created art with concrete and broken glass. This unusual place is located in Nieu-Bethesda South Africa.
Sallie and Bill chose #55. My 1983 store front in Tonasket, Washington.
Ann chose #706. The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliff Wilderness straddles Utah and Arizona where Wire Pass trail leads to Buckskin Gulch Slot Canyon.
My choice from this week, “such a fine sight to see…”
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?
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Good morning Gaelyn. A lovely variety of photo’s here where you have captured all the interesting points. My favourite is the glimpse of the Colorado river from Grand Canyon of course. Both my favourite subjects as well as the dramatic skies.. No 5985 for next week please. Enjoy your weekend.
Thanks Rita. I know you always like the canyon shots. #5985 for you next week.
Tonasket, Washington. Small world…..
I grew up in the Okanogan valley and have several life long memories involving Tonasket.
The first involved a 37′ Packard ‘Victoria’ roadster dad purchased in Tonasket. The big Packard was jammed in a tiny garage inches, too, small for it. The adults couldn’t get in to the car so dad decided that I could get in behind the steering wheel and straighten the front wheels. Well the tires were flat and that Packard weighed close to 5,000 pounds and my little six year old arms weren’t up to the task, but I at least was behind the wheel of that beautiful classic before he was.
The second has to do with dad’s purchase of a 1937 John Deer tractor located in Tonasket. Dad decided I could drive it home to our farm near Malott some 20-miles south of Tonasket, I was about eight years old at the time. I made it about half way back to Omak when a state trooper pulled along side, lights flashing, signaling me to stop. I couldn’t figure out how to stop the big green beast. Dad had stop the car and run back and jump on and try to figure it out. He figure it out just in time as we were just about to run into our parked car. The cop was a friend of dad’s but still read him the riot act.
Dad was a Biophysicist and the Okanogan County Sanitarian. He started the clean-up of the Columbia River and it tributary system back in the early fifties.
Yes, a small world, and the magic of social media. Sounds like you had quite a few adventures in the Okanogan, long before my time there.
Hi Gaelyn, yet another series of very special photos. We always love the photos of the canyon and thanks to you, we have now seen it in real life 😉.
Think the fovourite has to be the Owl house which we have yet to see for ourselves.
9110 for next week please.
Have a good weekend Diane and Nigel
Thanks. The Owl House is truly an unusual place. #9110 for you next week.
Again all great photos, but Yogi’s wild flowers called out this autumn morning. Next week 1948 the year Bar Miramar opened in San Felipe. We’ll be stopping there in a few hours for a Margarita on the beach.
The shrimp are calling, and I must go!
Thanks Jeff. A warm beach is sounding inviting on this 36° morning. #1948 for next week.
Funny how paths can cross and pass nearby each other. I went to the Barter faire in Tonasket in 1988trying to sell my dried flowers, and my friend sold her crystals. She did much better with her crystals than I did with the flowers. I did mange to make a living selling dried flowers wholesale and at shows for more than 5 years, however. Life does some amazing twists. All the photos are fun, but of course the Tonasket one triggered some fun memories. I’m in Missouri. Have you been to Missouri? yeah. that. it is Missouri. So I will try 1964 for the year my son was born, who I am visiting here in Joplin
I loved the Tonasket Barter Faire, but by 1988 was living on a sailboat in Seattle. I have been to Missouri. As a kid, family used to vacation on Lake of the Ozarks. #1964 for next week.
Rim to Rim was on David’s bucket list and a for sure for our next trip to the canyon but he’s no longer strong enough to do it. Very sad. Love my Tee Pee rocks. Utah’s sandstone is amazing. What fun to see your store front. You have definitely had many different lives. That final picture is definitely a “fine sight to see”. Lucky for Winslow that he wrote a song about them and that you came to visit. How about 7000 for next week?
Winslow doesn’t really have a whole lot else going for it. #7000 for next week.
I’ve never seen a canyon. What amazing sights! #1956
It’s difficult for me to understand never seeing a canyon. Glad I can share shots of the Grand. #1956 for next week. Thanks for playing along.
Love that pure western sentence you used on photo #706 above … even the verb “straddles” which rhymes with “saddles”, etc. Reminds me of advice my mother used to say “don’t climb in the saddle unless you’re ready for the ride”. Ok, how about 1235 this next week? That’s what time it is right now. Thank you!
I wouldn’t have recognized that as a ‘western sentence’ especially as I’m from Illinois originally. Yet I have been west for a whole lot of years. I like your mother’s advice. #1235 for next week.
Enjoyed our photo of your old store. Why were you in Tonansket? i probably read the reason once, but have forgotten. It is fun to go back and look at our “past lives” sometimes isn’t it! Love the Vermillion Cliff photo and the Mesa Verde shot (memories for us too) .. and South Africa as always so interesting. Especially the Zebras, but the craft lady was fun too. let’s go 124 next week, see if I get another past life pix.
I lived in Tonasket where my husband worked in the Okanogan Valley as a journeyman mechanic, mostly on lifttrucks. #124 for next week.
I love the “Such a fine sight to see photo.” In fact that place is now on my bucket list. When I was growing up, Winslow was just another town, and will now always be special.
9612 next week.
Winslow is just another town except for the corner, La Posada, and Homolovi State Park. #9612 for next week.
Great week of photos:) Love any Grand Canyon photos. That auditorium sure looks familiar at North Rim. I wonder if we saw it when we visited the North Rim. We need to drive Johnston Canyon Road. Love the tee pee rock shapes. The zebra are beautiful!! Love you hanging out on the corner in Winslow!!!
Thanks. The auditorium is in the Grand Lodge. Winslow was, interesting. Wish there’d been more time for Homolovi.
I love the photo of the wildflowers along the fence. But then again I always love a good fence picture.
We’ve yet to make it to Mesa Verde but hopefully, one day we’ll get there. I would love to see it. The indigenous people were so capable. Almost ahead of their time in their ingenuity.
Thanks. The SW natives were exceedingly accomplished.