This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including many moods of Grand Canyon, flowers, several panoramas, and a special guest.
liberalwarrior chose #7777. I was excited when this gem came up of late light and shapely shadows from the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park 6-28-16. And then they got better.
Melissa chose #1950. Always an added surprise when an older photo and camera provide a fun image. This early morning light on the temples was captured from the North Rim Lodge with a beloved Fuji P&S 8-28-10.
Diane and Nigel chose #1402. She takes awesome images of insects, and this shot isn’t bad though you might have noticed this Long-horned Beetle is missing a leg. Taken on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park 8-23-09.
Lisa chose #1018, one of three in a panorama which blew me away when I processed the shot. With a P&S Canon taken 5-31-09 from Point Imperial on the North Rim Grand Canyon. Didn’t I say they got better. Definitely my favorite this week.
Yogi chose #3276. Another little gem, especially as the Palm Canyon trail is closed due to a fire last year. I hiked this trail in Anza-Borrego Desert California State Park during January 2015.
Rita chose #9365. These Beavertail cactus flowered during mid-April in 2015 in Congress, Arizona. Spring blooms can occur from February to June in different parts of Arizona. I hope to catch some soon.
Sue chose #1988, the year she sold flowers at the Tonasket Barter Faire. That happens to be the year I moved away from Tonasket, though I too had sold at that Barter Faire both before that and after that. I love the serendipity. Yet I find no correlation to her chosen image of last light on the Santa Rosa Mountains from my camp in Anza-Borrego on 12-22-14. Unless she was there and I didn’t know it.
Jodee and Bill chose #3511. About two weeks after the above shot I visited sculptures like this Sabertooth cat attacking an extinct horse near Borrego Springs. Part of the Galleta Meadows instalments by Ricardo Bredada.
Sherry chose #6937. She’s a flower lover but probably hasn’t seen any of these Forest White Sugarbush Protea. I saw these near George, South Africa and other Protea in different colors in other parts of the country.
Jo chose #1602, a two-shot panorama. Having already hiked down on the Navajo Loop trail and partway up Wall Street with this look back. My first visit to Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah 9-21-10. I anticipate this view again as I return to work this summer at Bryce.
Sallie and Bill chose #2643, a four-shot panorama. Ranch buildings along the bumpy road to Toroweap, a Grand Canyon overlook.
My choice this week is special guest Ranger Wanda Lust, who some of you may remember from years ago. She travels with me everywhere but disappears as soon as we’re parked. I guess neither of us are much for selfies. This was at our most recent camp along the Colorado River. More on that later.
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?
So many amazing photos!! I could not pick a favorite. <3 8*)
May I have 8359 for next week, please? It is a digit off of my birthday numbers, just to see what we get! It's always so fun to see what comes up! <3 <3 <3 8*)
Thanks. #8359 for next week.
All great photos, especially the ones with the older cameras. My favorite is the flowering beavertail cactus. Have a great weekend, My number for next week is 8711.
Thanks. Wish the Fuji camera still worked, it was my favorite. #8711 for next week.
Wonderful Canyon shots Gaelyn and I love the sculpture of the horses. Fav this week is from Point Imperial on the North Rim Canyon .No 7321 for next week please. Have a great weekend. How are your wrists now?
Thanks. #7321 for next week.
My favorite this week is the point imperial shot. I think it would be a good candidate for next years calander. For no particle reason I chose No 4356 for next week please.
Thanks. That canyon shot is grand. #4356 for next week.
So many beautiful photos, but my favorite was the rain storm in the canyon. It reminds me of some rain storms we have waited out or paddled through in canyons here in CO—fond memories tinged with wet and cold. Number 1306 for next week please!
Thanks. I love to see storms over the canyon but don’t think I’d care for paddling in them. #1306 for next week.
I sure haven’t seen any of those South African flowers. So wonderful that you could go there multiple times. I’m with you on that fabulous Grand Canyon Panorama shot. I also really like the flowering cactus. Hope to see those one day when I get west if I can figure out how to do it and where to stay. Getting shut out daily trying to make reservations for Florida. SO many RVers these days makes me wonder if it’s time to turn in the keys. On that cheery note I’d like # 9090 for next time.
I am more than ready to return to South Africa. I would love to share the west with you so please don’t turn in your keys. #9090 for next week.
Amazing what can be done with a p and s camera, or a phone for that matter. geez. Still, all the shots you have been getting lately are impressive and much more technically sound, but sometimes just viewing a photo doesn’t give an amateur any kind of clue. Just like the photos if they are “pretty”. Picking a favorite? I guess I loved seeing the Palm Canyon palms since I never got there because we had our dog with us the first time we were there and the last time the canyon was closed. And nope. winter of 2014 I was most certainly not in Arizona. I was recuperating from our three month trip back to Florida the previous spring. Looking back at the calendar, selling the Rocky Point house was not yet on the radar. I was shoveling snow and making christmas cookies. Ha! Big difference.
I think many of my old photos are good, until I zoom in and note all the pixels. For online there are fine. Sorry you didn’t get to see Palm Canyon because it was awesome. That year, the nights in AB got brutally cold, but thank goodness no snow. #7864 for next week.
oops, forgot to pick a number. 7864 for my son’s birthday
Hi Gaelyn, I love the Beavertail Cactus and of COURSE you and Wanda Lust! Please put me down for 8354 a number chosen from Random.org number picker. Have a great week. Jo
Thanks. #8354 for next week.
You and Wanda get my vote! 💚💛
Thanks. She is kinda’ cute.
Again all great photos, but having just returned from Borrego I’ll select them. The Ranger gal I spoke to did not know when Palm Canyon would be reopened. The clean-up is complete, but they want nature to heal the scare to prevent erosion.
For next week I’d like 853 the American Legion Post number where we camped this trip.
Thank you. I understand your Borrego bias. Imagine it will take a while to heal the fire’s scars. #853 for next week.
When I visited Palm Canyon in 89′ I have to admit to being underwhelmed, but the loss or damage to it by fire is something I can relate to. We tragically lost in 2017 a stunningly beautiful canyon/swimming hole(s) on the Umpqua river. My daughter and her soon to be husband were going to honeymoon there, but the canyon was on fire at the time.
Being a big fan of Cacti, I love the pic of the Beavertail.
Next the Sugarbush Protea, nature never fails to amaze me.
Lisa’s comment on paddling in the rain, and snow, reminds me of many wonderful days kayaking in Baja, the Northern California and Oregon coasts, Puget Sound and Hood’s Canal, and the Inside Passage of B.C. Canada and many mountain lakes in the N.W. A lot of that(most) in the fog, mists, and rain and snow.
Old cameras. From my old black box cameras and Pin-hole cameras and early Kodaks, to a much loved Fuji Range-finder with its F1.2 – 50mm lense I found in a dumpster in downtown Portland that I carried in my glove box and miles of trails for years until it was stolen out of my car, to my old K1000 I still have. The excitement and romance those old cameras brought is not present for me in the new fantastic digital cameras we/I have today. My phone does most of the photo work today. I will have to get back to serious photo effort adventures in my 2020 travels. At least that is what I tell myself.
Ok, went to the dart board for next weeks number. 6019. Lucky first throw. where is that throw when I need it.
Gaelyn, are you south of Quartzsite on the Colorado, cuzz I didn;t think you could camp on the Reservation north of Quartzsite.
I do wish I still had my first Brownie Box camera just for fun but don’t have space to hang on to them all through the years. #6019 for next week.
BLM south of Ehrenberg AZ, but now I’m back at the Kofa.
Our usual words, a great series of photos. That shot of the storm over the North Rim is quite amazing though and we think our favourite. Love the little insect despite the missing leg., 2102 for next week please. Have a fabulous weekend, Diane and Nigel.
Thanks. They are not always ‘good’ photographs but sure are good memories. #2102 for next week.
I love the cactus flowers!
The rocks, amazing. We have those insects. They come in on the wood. Happy trails!
#4444
Thanks. I don’t suppose you see a lot of cactus. Rocks, insects, and lots of other cool critters wander your way. #4444 for next week.
So many wonderful colors captured in your travels!! We love the Galeta sculptures and need to get back to Borrego Springs!
#3421 for next week please.
Thanks. Nice to be surrounded by so much color. I like AB but not as easy to boondock nearer to town now. #3421 for next week.
Oh these are all wonderful. The scenic shots are magnificent and I love the desert flowers…they always seem like a miracle to me. I’m late again and excited to go read your later post. How about 435 for next week?
Thanks. Flowers are extra special in a desert. #435 for this week.