This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including several firsts, like South Africa, snow Grand Canyon, and desert dreaming.
Susie chose #4857. A dramatic monsoon storm moving east across Grand Canyon from Crazy Jug Point on the Kaibab National Forest.
Diane and Nigel chose #910. During my first visit to Kruger National Park in March of 2010 I learned the most commonly seen animal are Impalas, yet I also saw the Big 5.
Jodee and Bill chose #626. My first visit to Buckskin Gulch slot canyon, and I was absolutely blown away.
Sherry chose #6215. She’s way more a water baby than I but I do like to hear the crashing waves and Tsitsikamma National Park in South Africa is where I’ve heard them most recently, that was 2-26-14.
Rita chose #7131. Joshua Tree National Park in California has rounded granite boulders much like where I lived in Yarnell, Arizona. These were seen along the Barker Dam trail in the former.
Doris chose #591. One time while driving in the Kaibab National Forest a rock stuck in my Ford truck’s wheel, screeching loudly, and wouldn’t fall out. I tried all the tricks I knew and finally stopped to let it cool down. Went for a walk and saw this turkey feather. Rock finally did fall out but it was many hours later.
Jim and Diana chose #18. Add ten for the number of inches of snow seen in this shot from my window. I was a winter volunteer for the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington 1995/96. Five of us were snowed in at the remote Pine Creek Work Station. Not so bad until melt and flood followed so we were evacuated. My first helicopter evacuation.
Yogi chose #2022. My first visit to Toroweap in 2010 along the remote north-west rim of Grand Canyon with this iconic sunset view upstream above the Colorado River.
Jeff chose #1103. This snowy view might look like November but was taken the end of April, 2010 of my boss and her rig on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Rita’s number brought up this pretty memory from February, 2017 taken along the Ajo Mountain Road in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Hope to see similar landscape this winter.
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?
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Calendar shot for October 2021 – Thors Hammer and hoodoos as the full moon rises through the Earth Shadow from Navajo Loop Trail Bryce Canyon National Park Utah
Time to order a 2021 Geogypsy calendar, $25 includes shipping in the USA.
Love your moonrise photos, Gaelyn. Let’s do #11 next week. Next Friday will be 11 days until the election. Vote early, if you can.
Thanks. Practice makes better at the moon. #11 for next week. Done deal.
Hi Gaelyn, we gave up trying to pick a favourite this week, each is a favorite in their own category. Stunning set of photos. Out heart rests with the Impalas but …..
Chilly here today though we have not got to freezing quite yet though close. I am hovering to bring in the last vegetables.
1610 for next week please. Have a good weekend and tale care. Diane and Nigel
Interesting and beautiful photos as always Gaelyn. That snow is refreshing (though wow!! – deep). Bet you are getting anxious to get the wheels rolling! Next week #1024
Thanks. I am ready to roll, before any snow flies. #1024 for next week.
Thanks. I love to see all the shots for the memories. Glad you haven’t frozen yet. 24°F this morning at 8am. #1610 for next week.
As always, I’m having trouble picking a favorite so I don’t even try. Love the monsoon. What a great picture. Definitely have put Buckskin Gulch slot canyon and Toroweap on my bucket list after seeing your pictures. Beautiful! Glad I chose such a lovely water picture with the splashing waves and rugged rocks. I was trying to determine what ocean front in this country might look like that. I’ll skip all the snow thank you. Beautiful calendar picture at the end. I’ve sent you a comment about ordering one. I’ll take 8765 for next week.
Thanks, that’s a good sign to me. I have a list from your travels also. Oregon has a rocky shore. #8765 for next week.
Not far from the Pine Creek Work Station at the confluence of Buck Creek and the White Salmon River, during the winter of 1980/81, we had over 6-feet of snow with the drifts much higher.
The Gorge was closed for days and we couldn’t move into our newly acquired cabin cuzz the cabin was covered to over the eves. About all you could see was the chimney. I only know this cuzz a friend, a Crown Zee ‘timber cruiser’ whose family live up the creek from our cabin called me and wanted to know if I wanted to go to the cabin. I was perplexed cuzz all roads were closed and I thought he was at his house on the creek, but he was at Crown Zee’s facility at Amboy, Washington, and he thought he knew how to get back home on forest roads south of Mt. St, Helens. He also was going to commander a huge log loading machine with 8-feet high tires. So I took his wife’s grocery list and went shopping and met him at Amboy and full of fuel and a cab full of food we set off with not a little trepidation. What a scenic adventure. Amazing sights.
He had also got a call from the White Salmon Public Works because his house was down stream from the White Salmon city water intake and the city had no water. After we delivered the groceries and checked my cabin, we set off for the White Salmon water intake. Turns out that a deer had fell into the creek and was plugging the intake pipe. With some effort and nearly drowning ourselves we got the poor critter out and hauled up to the road and secured.
Thoroughly frozen we went back to his place and a roaring fire, hot chocolate and Huckleberry pancakes. Nothing has ever tasted that good again. The next day we went to a local logging shop and fueled the beast, as we were now calling it, and set off back to Amboy via Camas on Hwy,-14. We had the road to ourselves till past Cape Horn and a police escort from Camas to near Amboy.
The winters of 78/79/80/81 were some of the worst winters the area had seen in some 60-years. The Columbia froze over all the way to Portland. Multonomah Falls froze solid and crazy people climbed it. I was nearly able to walk all the way across the Columbia at Rooster Rock. When the river broke up, massive blocks of ice climbed the banks and levy walls all the way to ocean. Amazing sights and natural phenomenon. Never saw anything like it again until my winter on the North Fork of the John Day River in 2009.
Totally crazy and worthy of a good story. I came across many stories about the freeze while researching for USFWS.
Hi Gealyn, The photo of the work station at Pine Creek looks quite pretty with all the snow,but also looks lonesome. I love the one of the sunset at the North West Grand Canyon. My favourite however is the rising of the full moon from Navajo Loop Trail. Hope all is well with you. No 1564 for next week please
We were snowed in at Pine Creek for five days, more than I ever want to do again. I truly enjoy the night sky here at Bryce. #1564 for next week.
Another group of interesting photos. Thanks! #832 for next week please.
Thanks for the memories. #832 for next week.
Can’t believe another week has gone by! Although everyone will be glad to see this year move out. I really need to get back further into Buckskin Gulch the next time we’re up there – so beautiful. I love that monsoon shot, the power of water in the desert is breathtaking.
#6201 for nex week please.
The days of summer were long and slow but suddenly it’s over. Wire Pass and Buckskin are worth many visits. But not when there’s water, an otherwise desert gift. Travel well. #6201 for next week.
I love the photo of all the snow. It reminds me of a photo of my mother at the Happy Jack ranger station on the Coconino National Forest where she is shown at the front of the their little house with snow above her waist. I think it was a springtime photo also.
Gotta’ love spring at high elevation. That’s a great memory of your mother. #7300 for this week.
Me again, my number is 7300