This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by eight readers including several shots from Mt St Helens, some wildlife, and my wild kitty.
TreDeuce chose #1.618, “The ratio of the Golden Mean.” A pattern that is pleasing to the eye so often used in photography. I didn’t quite achieve that with this unknown plant’s seed head.
#18 from above, a panorama of Ghost Lake seen on a hike in the blast zone while working at Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument during summer of 1992.
Jo chose #7500. California Condor #01 with head tucked and probably sleeping on Navajo Bridge that crosses the Colorado River in northern Arizona.
Jennifer chose #9236. A nice combination of Autumn gold aspen with a backdrop of the Grand Canyon.
From the above #36, I worked with Spike the porcupine at the California Living Museum in 1989.
Jodee and Bill chose #7101. Interestingly carved sandstone along the Upper Buckskin Gulch hiking in a dry wash.
The #01 from above goes back to April, 1975. Spring tulips in a friends’ yard in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Diane and Nigel chose #2903. Many of you will recognize this bird as a Barn Swallow. But imagine my surprise when I identified it in Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa.
The #03 from above is another pic of Spike. I’ll bet you’d be surprised to know that the nose of a porcupine is soft like velvet. I know this because I used to pet Spike, on the nose only.
Gayle chose #6792. This view, or at least landscape, probably looks familiar to her as it is similar to her current Moab area environment. This exact view if from near Best Friends in Kanab Utah.
From above #92, also similar rock to above. But this shot was taken from the bottom of Grand Canyon looking up to the South Rim on my first rim-to-rim hike in 2008.
Jeff chose #7569, “I picked Gonzaga to to go the distance this year, but they will go home after a 75-69 defeat to Texas Tech.” I’d pick the elephants, every time, no defeats except the ugliness of poachers. These lovelies seen during a return visit to Addo Elephant National Park.
From the above #69. A Barn Owl who lived at the California Living Museum mentioned above.
Sallie and Bill chose #118. During the summer of 1992 working at Mt St Helens I could see Meta Lake while hiking Norway Pass Trail in the blast zone.
And the #18 from above is also at Mt St Helens except it was summer of 1993 and this view of the Toutle River and volcano was taken from the Coldwater Ridge Visitor Center.
My final choices: Sierra was a cool cat while camping last week yet I think was happy to be home.
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?
The ‘Golden Mean’ proportions everything in nature. The human body is proportioned to the order of the Golden Mean. It has been used for millenia by Architects and Artists, often unknowingly.
Picture of the Condor is an amazing catch.
3.142 for next week.
Oop’s! That should be 3.141
Thanks, I did luck out with a condor right below me on the bridge. There are better pics. I about the Golden Mean a long time ago in art classes. #3141 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, I loved the condor in my choice. and of course, love Spike. But Sierra has my vote for favorite pics in your post. ! My number for next week is 5640. Jo
Thanks Jo, you’re any animal person like me. #5640 for next week.
I love them all! SPike is a cutie! Such an amazing photo array.
#3942
Thanks. #3942 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, my favorite this week was also the condor. Such luck for you to have seen it there! Number 32 for next week, please.
Navajo Bridge is a good place to spot condors. Thank goodness I got better pics than that one that actually showed its head. #32 for next week.
I like the autumn aspen shot the best. Been so long since I have seen Aspen with the golden colors. Maybe this year!!
my number this week is 8671
Fall is a wonderful time to visit the SW, as you know. #8671 for next week.
I have some property a few miles SE of the fantastic outdoor playground of Mt. Adams. On it is a beautiful colony of Aspen skirting a low, but good sized seasonal pond(great for winter ice skating). In the Fall, the leaves turn a beautiful red and the Fall scene created by the Aspen and the backdrop of the mighty Mt. Adams is a photographer’s delight.
Aspen are clonal plant and propagate through their root system forming colonies. Like too many trees, Aspen are under some threat these days.
Sounds delightful. Need a caretaker?
COL! No improvements, power, water, etc. and received over 3-ft of snow this winter. About a foot-plus of it is still there.
I will be punching in a driveway to an equipment/vehicle shed to be built near the highway and building a small cabin that you will have to walk an improved* trail to. A small house will be built later.
*Improved as in graveled and wide enough for a golf cart.
Summer only sounds good.
Love the condor, the elephants and the swallow but my favourite has to be Spike, he is adorable.
Have a good weekend 504 for next week please. Hugs from Diane and Nigel.
Spike would follow me around his enclosure until I scratched his nose, and fed him. #504 for next week.
So many great animal shots. Loved the elephants, but since I am currently cat deprived, I loved the photos of Sierra best. For the moment the other person requests no cat. I dont like dogs that much, but she suggested a lap dog instead of a cat. No cat box in the MoHo and if course you know Mattie won my heart. In my lap as i write.
Seems Sierra poses for my phone camera regularly. Glad to oblige.
Love the South Rim photo from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Gaelyn. Let’s do 4319 for the day we took delivery of a shiny, new Henry!
It was a daunting view. #4319 for next week.
Oooo ! love em all Gelyn. The Ghost Lake Mt St Helens and that lovely bird the Barn Swallow in the Elephant National Park. and those of Sierra your lovely cat are exceptional . Favourite of course is the bottom of Grand Canyon looking up to South Rim.. No 8952 for next weeks Friday photo. Have a great weekend.
Thanks Rita. The view from the bottom of the canyon up was rather intimidating. Hope you’re feeling better. #8952 for next week.
Loved the Mt St Helens memories and the beautiful canyon scenery — but the elephants in the wild (something I’ll never see in real life) are the favorite this time; I am in such awe that you saw that for real~~~
Thanks Sallie. I too am in awe I saw elephants in the wild. #63 for next week.
Uhoh — forgot. What about 63 next week — the number of words in both my comments here (I think,. Close enough anyway. Thanks.
WOW! … again! OK I’ll also select the condor foto, they are awesome in flight, but have not seen one napping before. For next week I’d like 20 the height of Borrego’s Maidenhair Falls.
I do have other photos of the condor on the bridge showing its head. #20 for next week.