Foto Friday Fun 296 – every picture tells a story

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers in addition to several much older photos that never see the light of day.  Prior to 2014 while labeling photos I assigned numbers starting with 01 each month so there are a lot of low number moldy oldies.

Diane and Nigel chose #3011.  With scenery like this I didn’t mind stopping for construction along the N12 to Meiringspoort on my 2013 quest to drive as many South African mountain passes as possible..  It could almost be in the Southwest.

The #11 goes back to June 1980, may wedding day with husband and step-children at Morton Arboretum, Illinois.

Sherry and David chose #1129.  A spring day in 2009 driving south on SR89 towards Flagstaff on the other side of the San Francisco Peaks.

#29 shows a beautiful snowy peak on Mount St Helens in January 1996 while I was a winter volunteer.  A month later as snow melt caused flooding and roads to wash out, five volunteers were evacuated by helicopter.

Jennifer chose #8364.  This renovated church in historic Grafton, Utah is not far from Zion National Park.  This is where the bicycle scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was filmed.

Back to Mount St Helens for #64 the summer of 1992, my first season as a Ranger.  I led a short nature walk to Meta Lake where this beaver dam could be seen.

TreDeuce chose #1948, “the year my brother was born and the year of my first car, a 48’ Cadillac convertible.”  This shot from the first year I visited Tuweep in 2010 looking at the Colorado River up stream for a pastel reverse sunset.

#48 from 1989 when I was a volunteer animal keeper at the California Living Museum (CALM) in Bakersfield where this peacock was on display.

Jodee and Bill chose #9401.  No bad views of Grand Canyon and even beyond about 50 miles to Echo Cliffs taken from the Ken Patrick Trail on the North Rim.

Figures that #01 would go back quite a ways, 1969 when I grew up boating and water skiing on the Illinois River.  My Dad’s power boat was similar to this one.

Yogi chose #1310, “because that was the score Thursday night as my Dallas Cowboys beat the New Orleans Saints.”  Is that hockey?    This shot is one of four in a panorama score looking east across Grand Canyon from a point named after Theodore Roosevelt who visited the North Rim several times.  (You already got two pics so no oldie this time.)

Jeff chose #1208, “the date Borrego Springs celebrates its new library.”  I celebrated my first visit in 2010 to Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah and shot this sunset from my campsite.

#08 is a 1974 scanned print from El Casino Freeport, Bahamas.  Sadly I wasn’t 21 yet when my boyfriend and I went to Freeport so couldn’t go inside.

Rita chose #9039.  Look closely, those dark shapes in the lower middle are people hiding from the mid-day August heat and just beyond them is the famous Wave in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.

December 1996 for #39, a different one of many truckcampers I’ve owned at the Slabs in Niland California my first year as a southern snowbird.

Pam and John chose #2103.  Back to the 2010 visit to Toroweap this time looking almost straight down 3,000 feet to the Colorado River.

The #03 is my 1965 Mustang when living in Downers Grove, Illinois during the summer of 1971.

My choice of a reverse sunset with my 5th-wheel from this week.  Sadly, I haven’t lived in it in over a year.  So, I’ve decided to sell it.  Interested?

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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