This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including South African greens, Southwest golds, and this is my 3200th blog post since October 9th, 2008. (Feels like a milestone.)
Jim and Diana chose #67, a scanned print. This injured Great Horned Owl lived at the California Living Museum where I was an animal keeper in Bakersfield California during 1989.
Doris chose #9065. I am impressed with the 900 year-old masonry work of the Ancestral Puebloans as seen in Wupatki National Monument, Arizona.
Jeff chose #1902, “the year the old growth trees in Big Basin Redwoods was set aside as a state park, devastated by fire last week.” I cry to think of this loss, partly our own fault for suppressing fire for over 100 years. I saw very few trees to burn when hiking in the Drakensberg Mountains. His choice was one of two in a panorama of a trail stream crossing in this moist grassy South African landscape.
Sherry chose #3894. This might almost look like her driveway if it gets overgrown but it’s really the drive to the Never Daunted Self-catering Cottage I stayed at in Hogsback, South Africa during my 2013 visit.
Yogi and Random dot org chose #2976. An almost blown out white flowering Candleabra plant seen in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa during their summer in 2013.
Jo chose #3790. As an avid birder I’m sure she’s seen the Yellow-billed Stork from her home country of South Africa. This was just one of many wonderful birds I saw in Kruger National Park.
Diane and Nigel chose #2108. The Colorado River 3000 feet straight down from the iconic Toroweap overlook. It’s a long bumpy drive yet sure worth the view in the remote western Grand Canyon National Park.
Cathy chose #1763. Humphreys Peak dominates the horizon when approaching Flagstaff on SR89 south. Especially nice under sunset.
Rita chose #6633. The granite boulders are sculpted by weathering and erosion as seen along the Hidden Valley trail in Joshua Tree National Park, California during a March, 2015 hike.
Jennifer chose #8, another scanned print. From a 1971 family vacation to visit my maternal grandparents near Sacramento, California. They owned a boat store and we boated on Folsom Dam. Think this was my first reservoir experience and I remember searching the depths for the remains of a flooded town.
Jodee and Bill chose #142. The Ogden Bridges as seen from Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint, a rest area along US97 in central OR over the Crooked River, and I honestly don’t remember being here. Dated 9-13-07, would have been towards the end of my last season working at Oregon Caves.
One of my interpretations this week for Arizona Highways Facebook Friday theme “works of art” – Vishnu schist & Zoroaster granite in The Box along the North Kaibab trail Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
And a leftover from the previous post at Sheep Creek/Swamp Canyon overlook along Bryce Canyon National Park’s scenic road.
Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories. For more of the story just follow the links. Please join in next week by leaving a number between 0001 and 9999 in your comment below.
Do you have a favorite this week?
Ooohhh…I very much remember being at the Ogden bridges. I got the willies looking over the edge of that canyon. :).
Please put is down for #60 next week.
I had rockhounded along the Crooked River many years before this shot but still can’t remember being at the bridges. #60 for next week.
The favourite this week goes to our photo of the Grand Canyon looking down at the Colorado river which looks pretty low to us! Of course the Drakensburg shots are very close to our hearts and again we love the shot of Sheep Creek/Swamp Canyon. 2808 which is also our 30th wedding anniversary for next week please.
Hugs and keep safe Diane and Nigel.
Thanks. Happy Anniversary! #2808 for next week.
You have so many amazing photos. What travels. #8000
I do have a lot of photos, not sure they are all amazing but thanks. #8000 for next week.
That view of Humphrey’s Peak has me nostalgic for the southwest. It seemed like Flagstaff was a center of all that.
8507 via random dot org
It’s getting closer to you visiting the SW. #8507 for next week.
Love the Ogden Bridge photo. I used to drive 97 between Coeur d Alene and California many times during the 30 years I lived in Idaho, the best route south. I loved how that deep chasm would suddenly appear from nowhere, with no warning, suddenly you were there, looking down into the canyon. A couple of years ago we drove that direction and saw crazy bungee jumpers going into the depths from the bridge. Fun to watch and quite terrifying. I will never be a bungee jumper!
Thanks. I know I’d been over that bridge many times, just don’t remember this trip. No bungee jumping for me either.
I’d say 3200 is a milestone. That’s absolutely amazing. I have no idea how many posts I’ve done but I posted daily for nearly 7 years. I wonder now how in the world I did that. LOL at the drive. It really could look like mine if I didn’t beat the forest back. Just give it a year or two and all of Virginia would be back to the forest primeval. I have never seen a yellow billed stork. Thanks for showing me. No idea what the Arizona Highways Facebook Friday theme is but that is one gorgeous piece of rock. Love your final picture. You do such a fantastic job of photographing Bryce. I’ll take 1034 for next time please. Wish I knew how to get my picture icon with my post without having to create yet another account.
If that Work of Art photo could talk…what stories we would hear! Toroweap 😍 I don’t see it that often but Humphreys Peak is always a welcome sight when traveling. Lots of interesting pictures. The owl print is pretty – those eyes! Next week #3576
Thanks. Of course I think all rocks are a work of art. 😉 #3576 for next week.
I’m a fan of the desert southwest, great photos of the red rocks. I feel that Toroweep is a must addition to the bucket list.
For next week I’d like 42 as today is MLB’s Jackie Robinson Day 2020, all MLB players will wear number 42 on their jerseys.
Trivia – Brothers Moses and Fleet Walker both had MLB contracts 6 decades before Jackie Robinson, but could not break the color barrier and only played one season.
Thanks. I’ve been missing the big views of the southern desert lately, but not the heat. Toroweap IS a must see. Now need permit to camp and it is the best for sun rise and set.
Love that I always learn something from your comments.
Hi Gaely, Loved the Great horned owl at the beginning of this post. I do so like owls. Favourite this week is the Toroweap overlooking the Colorado River. No 1963 for next week please. Hope you receive this comment as it doesn’t seem to be connecting to my wordpress. Have a great weekend
Thanks. Other than this owl I’ve only seen one other Great Horned in Washington state. They are huge. #1963 for next week.
Too many favorites this week to pick just one. I really like the owl and the framed view of the canyon with the Colorado River. For next week – #4567
The Arizona Facebook rock is pretty cool. I hear at least two Great Horned owls frequently in the woods surrounding my house. #479 for next week please.
Thanks. That is super cool to have owls near your house. #479 for next week.
Your photos and stories always provide a welcome diversion in my day—an escape from the daily routine and a reminder of all the places I’ve been and have yet to be. Life’s been a bit chaotic with school reopening, but your blog helps ground me. 3200 is quite the feat!
Thank you for the lovely complement. I can’t imagine being in school right now and wish you the best in safety and well being. #3200 for this week.