This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including canyons, the Colorado River, wildlife, and new friends.
Lisa chose #5032. My second visit to Palm Canyon in Anza Borrego Desert State Park the winter of 2015 included flowers like these red Chuparosa.
Rita chose #5075. I feel lucky when I can photograph birds, they’re so flighty. Better luck sometimes with birds of prey like this Yellow-billed Kite seen in Kruger National Park while on safari in February 2014.
Diane and Nigel chose #3101. Certainly a sight they’ve seen. These two I saw in Addo Elephant National Park during my first visit in 2010. I could watch elephants all day.
Jennifer chose #122. My last season as a Ranger at Oregon Caves in 2007 I was also a camp host four miles down the road at Cave Creek campground. This was my ‘yard’ from the creek with my old 5th-wheel parked.
Jeff chose #1774, “the year the local natives led Juan Bautista de Anza to water in the Yuha Desert.” He’s referring to the Anza of Borrego above, so guess he got the wrong photo. Instead, we see water vapor dancing around the rock temples seen from the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Sherry chose #2420, “the day I really do have to get a site for next year at an impossible campground.” I’m not sure where she means but couldn’t be here at Toroweap where it would be impossible to get her big motorhome to the campground. Despite the slow rough drive, I prefer to camp and enjoy the evening, and morning, views like this shot looking 3000 feet down and upstream on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon.
Yogi chose #7711. A Quartzsite desert sunset from Plamosa Road camped north of town on BLM back in March 2015. I could easily end up there again in the near future.
Jo chose #4999. This shot of the inner canyon and Colorado River taken from the South Rim somewhere along the Hermit Road. I was there for training before the North Rim opened in 2016.
Melissa chose #1120, “in honor of my sweet grandson who is one of the lights of my life.” They have ‘bridged’ the gap in generations. Sorry, that was sic. Driving SR89 through Cameron, Arizona I always admire this old bridge that crosses the Little Colorado River.
Sallie and Bill chose #2220, the previous day’s date, their youngest great-grands first BD, and it’s a really cool number. Sorry, that number deserved better than an oil well seen on a backroad to Hovenweep National Monument, Utah.
My choice is the crew who went with Finius the Skinniest yesterday to wander around his mining claim in Quartzsite, Arizona. We found a lot of pretty rocks, and most of them were leaverites. As in leave-right-there.
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?
Amazing places you’ve been. We’re in a snowstorm. And cold on the way, -18 C.!
I don’t have any favourites, they are all lovely photos. #8888
Thanks. I don’t envy you that snow or cold. #8888 for next week.
Once again pretty much impossible to pick a favourite, but with our background the elephant comes out tops. Both of these have tusks, it was interesting to see on our last visit, many of the females are being born tuskless. Nature taking over to try and beat the poachers? 702 for ext week please. Travel safely, Diane and Nigel
Thanks. I saw a lot less tusks on Addo elephants than Kruger. Joan said the same thing about maybe reducing poaching. I sure hope so. #702 for next week.
Silly woman, always trying to ask us to pick a favorite, impossible, they are all so different! I did love the first one of Palm Canyon at Anza Borrego, not because it was necessarily the best photo, although it was great, but because we were just there yesterday. We visited Kathie Maxwell who is camp hosting there, but Palm Canyon is not open now because of the fire that burned up the palms. What a sad thing.I will choose 2020 just because I want to be optimistic that something good will happen in the coming year.
Thanks. Many times these are not ‘good’ photographs but do usually bring back good memories and stories. I was saddened to hear about the Palms Canyon fire in AB. And now I’m back to the other Palm Canyon on Kofa. #2020 for next week.
Again no favorite, all are great story-telling photos. For next week I’d like 19, having just watched “Only the Brave” documentary on the Yarnell fire where 19 firefighters died.
Thanks. Being I lived in Yarnell and lost goods in that fire I don’t think I could watch the movie. So much controversy as to what “really” happened there. #19 for next week.
I loved your bridge joke!! Really enjoy your peace sign of rocks, we need more peace in our world right now!! <3 8*)
May I have 521 for my GrandDaughter who Sparkles wherever she goes?! <3 <3 <3 8*)
Thanks for putting up with my, often, sick humor. #521 for next week.
As always Gaelyn all your photo’s are brilliant I do like sunsets . Favourite this week Grand Canyon over looking Colorado River. I would think it most invigorating to stand on the top looking over the River. No 7965 for next week please. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Thank you. Tuweep offers an iconic view of the Colorado River with a 3000 foot almost vertical drop. Gorgeous, but not for those with a fear of heights. #7965 for you next week.
Oh wow, I hardly ever see a photo showing something from the energy industry and you show a pumpjack on a well, and a gas meter (the black box to the left, and the piping below it.) Even I have to admit that it is not to sexy and is eclipsed by your other fine photos.
Next week i am 1177.
I do tend to see, and sometimes take photos of, things that are out of place. And that oil thing looked way out of place on the reservation. Not sexy at all. #1177 for this week.
Hi Gaelyn, I loved the Anza Borrego Desert State Park which reminds me of a month Grant and I spent in the Richtersveld on the great Orange River, SA / Namibian border way back in the nineties. Nostalgia is… I LOVED the oil drill picture. My number for next week is 2008. Have a great week. Jo
I can see where the Anza Borrego Desert and canyons would remind you of the Orange River gorge area, though I didn’t make it to Namibia. #2008 for you this week.
That last looks like it was a great day out. My fav today is also Quartzsite — that beautiful sky! Keep on having fun around there! If I’m not already too late I will take a low number, 67. (The percentage of battery left on my IPad this morning… still time to read a few more good posts.)
Thanks. Sure was a fun day out in the desert with new friends. #67 for you this week.