This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including South Africa, the USA Southwest, and the classiest camp ride ever.
Diane and Nigel chose #1701. I love when this happens as I, and they, met Joan in South Africa after knowing her for many years online. Look closely and you’ll see her sitting in the tall grass when we hiked to Sterkspruit Falls at the feet of the Drakensburg Mountains. Which, by the way, is where blogger Jo (comment below who I also met in South Africa) currently lives.
Rita chose #3839. This view across the Sowats drainage and Esplanade to the Kaibab Plateau was seen from Jumpup Point, the most remote site I’ve been to along the rim of the Grand Canyon.
Jennifer chose #20, for the temperature at -20°C, in Canada. Nowhere near that cold as I remember in December, 1996 at White Tank campground near this granitic arch in Joshua Tree National Park, California.
Doris chose #547. I’ve lost count how many times I saw, and tried to shoot through the windshield, this view north of some of the rock layers of the Grand Staircase in Utah along SR89, still in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona. This route took me from the North Rim of Grand Canyon where I worked to Kanab, Utah the closest place to shop.
Carla chose #1982, one of two in a panorama. So when blogger-Jo’s son (remember from above) guided me on an overnight backpack in March 2010, this was my morning view from camp looking up at the dragon’s teeth of the South African Drakensburg Mountains.
Sallie and Bill chose #1218 for the time of day. You can pick fresh thyme in Yarnell any time of day. It grows everywhere. This small bunch volunteered around the broken edges of chunks of concrete on a hillside next to where I lived. This shot with flowers was taken in late April, 2009.
Jeff chose #1602, “it took me 16:02 to finish this mornings Sudoku.” It took somebody more time than that to figure out and place this Geodetic Survey Marker, #2 out of 3, at one of my favorite camping locations on the Kaibab National Forest, Marble View. I don’t search for these markers but they intrigue me and I always take a photo of them when I trip across them. Maybe that’s early ‘geocaching’? Have to ask Yogi about that.
Yogi let random dot org choose #34. I am so glad to have this scanned photo of a friend from September 1974, the classiest camp ride ever, my Mom’s Caddy. A boyfriend and another couple borrowed the car for a vacation to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. Even with the canoe packed too heavy to lift, we used climbing ropes, the trunk had to be tied shut. It came home with a few new forest racing stripes. Alan, feel free to weigh in on the above geocaching idea.
Jo chose #9000. This colorful sunset is in tribute to her MIL who passed away recently at the age of 90 plus. May she RIP. This March, 2015 view was shot from another blogger friend’s back yard in Chino Valley, Arizona.
Jodee and Bill chose #401. A lovers knot for these two lovely people (and also bloggers I’ve fortunately met). It’s actually part of a dextral Ponderosa Pine seen along the Lava Flow Trail in Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Arizona during an April, 2009 visit.
Melissa chose #6675. Bouldering along the coastal terrain on the Tsitsikamma Waterfall Trail we came upon this shallow cave eroded into the tipped and fractured sedimentary rock. I wish there had been more of those stairs along the rugged way. It was so worth it.
My choice shows some of the Cholla in shadow below the Vulture Mountains near my two-night BLM camp not far from Wickenburg, Arizona. On the ground gap between these Jumping Cholla you’ll see pieces of this spiny cactus just waiting to jump on the unwary passerby. Not me, I use the zoom lens. Due to a lack of strong consistent signal this view delayed publishing at the usual time. Sigh…
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?
Every photo this week is a favourite, fabulous selection. I think even Joan cannot complain about this photo of her 😊 Thanks goodness for blogging, we would have missed meeting some wonderful people in parts of the world we would never have gone to. Happy weekend, hugs from us both. Diane and Nigel
Thanks, was a fun foto week for sure. Being only we would know, Joan can’t complain about this shot. Thank goodness for blogging bringing so many wonderful people, and places, into my life. Like you two.
Oooops 2401 for next week please.
I like the photo for me the best. I have never seen a car packed like that. Drive through Oklahoma like that the highway patrol will swarm thinking that they have found the mother of all drug mules.
Me too, that was an incredible adventure. #9976 for next week.
Me again, I’ll use the 9’s complement to my number last week. 9976, how about that.
Always great photos. I’ve got to get myself to Jumpup Point !!! For next week I’d like 2929 the street address of the Mission Bay RV Park.
Thanks. Jumpup is worth the terrible road. #2929 for next week.
I always appreciate the beautiful art that nature gives us so the love knot is a real treat! Hard to imagine the “making” of it over time. That dragon’s teeth shot is stunning!
#259 for next week please
Thanks. Humans can only imitate nature’s art. Ponderosa Pines decide whether to grow straight grained or spiral according to the soils. #259 for next week.
I enjoyed every photo this week! Picking a favorite would have been very hard indeed!
So, Ill choose the tree knot!! Mother Earth mixes and molds not just rock!
I choose 4096 for next week please! <3 <3 <3 8*)
Thanks. Mother Nature is amazing. #4096 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, I love the sunset tribute to my MIL. The memorial is on Wednesday 29th January in Marquard – my old home town. So my number for next week is 2901. Jo
Thanks. All my best to you. #2901 for this week.
It was appropriate our choice” being the brave thyme growing in the gravel … I have a special fondness flowers that bloom in unexpected difficult places…so hopeful. (And blooms you can flavor your soup with even better). … loved all your pictures, the sunset tribute is touching , the cholla cactus so beautifully lit and brings such good and not-so-good memories (I learned the hard way). So neat you met so many bloggers in SA .
Thanks. Berta used to pick and use fresh thyme in her never the same soup. Most people and some pets find out the hard way about the dastardly jumping cholla.
I try to meet bloggers wherever we are as we’re already friends. Joan living in SA inspired me to go there. #3825 for this week.
Oops forgot. I liked Jeff’s method for choosing a #…I don’t do Sudoku but I finished the Sunday crossword in 38 minutes and 25 seconds (there’s a timer on my app). So … 3825?
Hi Gaelyn, hope you enjoyed the cookies! I just scored a french press at Goodwill for 5.49! So let that be my number.
Best cookies ever! And you got what you needed. Super score! #549 for you this week.
Hi Gaelyn, Such a great variety of photo’s here which I love and hard to choose the best. Favourite however is that dramatic sky tribute to the MIL. No 7308 for next week please. Have a great week.
Thanks. #7308 for this week.
So many beautiful photos this week. I love to stick canoes on improbable vehicles, so the camping Caddy is my favorite this week. Number 617 for me next week please.
Thanks. What vehicles have you carried a canoe with. That was fun, until we got home and had to face my Mom. #617 for this week.
Hi Gaelyn! My favorite photo today is the beautiful sunset. I hope your wrists are doing good! My pick for next week is #1970 – the year my daughter was born.
Thanks. Wrists are doing pretty good, not quite 100% yet but closer. #1970 for you this week.