This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including red-rocks of canyon country, snow, and learning to tie-dye.
Jo chose #2099. Look closely down in the shadows of Grand Canyon flows the Colorado River 3000 foot below the iconic Tuweep overlook on the north side of the big ditch.
Rita chose #6666. This limestone outcrop is similar to and not far from Snake Gulch where I’ve seen much evidence of Native American inhabitants.
Jennifer chose #9126. She sees snow every winter, and I’d like her to keep it in Canada. However, the winter I lived in Kanab, Utah I saw quite a bit of snow, this from my RV window at Crazy Horse RV Park 2-1-16.
Diane and Nigel chose #1001. After my 2006 summer Park Ranger season at Oregon Caves I stayed in the fall for a Barter Faire and a friend taught me how to tie dye. I’m a late learning old hippy.
Melissa chose #7411, the time she left her comment last week. These fins of rock are fragile even though slightly harder than the surrounding sandstone and the first time I’d seen the likes while hiking in upper Buckskin Gulch, Utah, with lots of water because it was a hot July day in 2015.
Sherry chose #1847. White Pocket, the first big view most stop for, and some take photos. This from my first visit May 2015 thankfully with someone else driving.
Yogi let random dot org choose #1469. Maybe random can identify this mushroom seen along the Widforss trail during fall 2010 on the North Rim Grand Canyon.
Jeff chose #257, the amount of his “utility bill from hosting December guests and Christmas festivities.” Here we see the cost of fuel on 10-12-08 in Kanab, Utah. The stop light junction of SR89A and SR89 may be familiar to many.
Sallie and Bill chose #1108, “part of a very old address.” With a stretch you could call Mile 60? an address along SR67 heading North across the Kaibab National Forest to the North Rim. This was taken on 4-30-10 before the North Rim was open. Some years more snow than others.
Jodee and Bill chose #445. Wukoki Pueblo, one of many ruins seen in Wupatki National Monument during a spring visit in 2009.
Lisa chose #243, one of two in a panorama looking towards the North Rim. My first rim-to-rim Grand Canyon hike the first season working there in 2008.
My first choice, #0115 for the date I worked on this post. Zoomed to the inner canyon seen below the Grand Lodge on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park taken 4-26-15, before the park was open.
Second choice taken 1-15-20, warm colors of the desert and Whipple Mountains enhanced by the westering sun as seen from my free camp near Blue Water Casino in Parker, Arizona. A place to shop.
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 0001 and 9999 in your comment below.
Do you have a favorite this week?
Love tie and dye, have not tried it now in years. The canyon and desert shots are all stunning, no particular favourite. 1701 for next week please. Have a great weekend. Diane and Nigel
Thanks. Tie-dye has made a big comeback here but I haven’t actually done it since the time in that picture. #1701 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, There are such a lot of interesting shots here this week that its hard to choose. Once again I love the dramatic sky and Canyon pics, and Oh my ! that one of the Inner Canyon on the North Rim Grand Canyon Park is of course my favourite. No 3839 for next week please. Have a great weekend and take care on your journey’s
Thanks, I’m rather glad it’s hard to choose a favorite. #3839 for next week.
Yes, I have a favourite. All of them!
Now, our snow usually travels east. In fact, most of our snow comes from Colorado Lows! I enjoy the snow. Happy to see your warm rocks, though. I know spring is coming. We’re -20 today. #20
Yep, my favorite is second choice taken 1-15-20. I really like the rich colors
I love the shot of the Whipple Mountains. Your blog is a welcome distraction from the Oregon Coast’s very rainy weather this morning. Thank you – I always enjoy it.
How about 1982 next week?
Thanks. Glad to bring some sunshine into your gray. #1982 for next week.
Thanks. That one did turn out fine, except for the power lines.
Thanks. I like that your easy to please. Just keep that snow up north please and I’ll keep shooting the warm rock down south. #20 for next week.
Ours is a beautiful picture, but I am very glad that milepost marker is *not* my address. I’d rather see snow in pictures than in person. Hard to choose a favorite, but I would probably take your first choice favorite as mine … those colors are fascinating and the awe of looking at those canyons really comes through. I guess #1218 next time? Boring reason — time of day. Thanks for doing this — I look forward to it.
Thanks. I am also happy not to see any of that white stuff. I am learning that sometimes it’s necessary to zoom in to a huge scene instead of trying to capture the bigger picture. #1218 for next week.
So many great pictures … AGAIN!, but I’ve never seen the sandstone fins, I thought that was a closeup of dried and cracked mud. 🙂
I’d like 1602 for next week, it took me 16:02 to finish this mornings Sudoku.
Thanks. I like cracked mud too. #1602 for this week.
I looked further at your Tuweep photos, as the area has intrigued me since I first heard of it. I figured that it was a long back road drive, that I wasn’t going to take (:
The same is true of the White Pocket. I was glad to see more of both areas. Thanks.
Tuweep is definitely a commitment to drive to and really so is White Pocket. Glad to share.
Whoa, that first photo gave me a little vertigo. It’s my favorite of your excellent work. No way Ray could I get close to that.
My next number according to random dot org is 34.
Have a great weekend!!
Toroweap is not the place for people afraid of heights. #34 for this week.
Dear Gaelyn, I love rivers and love your posts on Tuweep overlook. My favourite is the intersection with traffic lights. Reminds me of Graaff Reinett in the Karro. I think you remember it (near the Valley of Desolation which you visited). Please put me down for 9000. My MIL passed away last weekend at the age of 90 plus. May she RIP. Jo
Thanks. You’d love to visit Grand Canyon. I do remember Graaff Reinett when visiting Camdeboo. I am sorry for your loss. She lived a long rich life. #9000 for this week.
I was just talking about places we have yet to see in Arizona, and here you’ve given me one I’d love to see!! Buckskin Gulch is where I also saw huge mud fins dried in the river bed. They were like pottery! Especially like that second choice of yours – so dramatic.
My Arizona to see list is still very long. #401 for this week.
Oops! #401 for next week please 🙂
Isn’t it just amazing? Look at those stone formations.
Nature is always a blessed surprise.
I am loving that limestone outcrop, number 6666!! Those layers and separations are amazing. I’m also tickled pink that rocks were doing a fancy display in my pick this week, too! 8*)
Could I please try 6675 next week? I am wondering if you photographed any evidence of Native American inhabitants. Thank you! <3 <3 <3 8*)
Nice to know others like rocks as much as I. #6675 for next week.