This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including stormy skies, funny fence, and my favorite South African animal.
Jim and Diana chose #72, “how many days it has been since we arrived in Michigan to our un excavated cabin build site.” They have come a long ways since then. So have I since this shot of my 9-year old brother and me at two in 1956.
Cathy chose #0524. During the February 2016 super bloom at Death Valley storm clouds built over the Badwater Basin but I honestly don’t remember rain falling.
Jennifer chose #7777. Last light at Grand Canyon lit up the temples and accented the clouds. #Rangersgetpaidinsunsets
Diane and Nigel chose #207. I call this the fallen female fence. Berta and I built a fence, but then the wind blew it over, and it was eventually repaired. I’ll bet she’s still laughing about this.
Sue chose #116, “our temperature last Sunday in Grants Pass.” Yea, that’s a heatwave in Oregon. A much larger wave of heat during the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens left this scene of the upper Clearwater Valley 12 years later when I worked at the National Volcanic Monument in 1992.
Alan chose #6264. A foggy Grand Canyon view from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim seen during August 2014 monsoon.
Doris chose #9149. This shot taken in 2015 would look much different today as Lake Powell is many feet lower and the Navajo Power Plant has been dismantled.
Rita chose #2139, one of two in a rather wonky panorama. Also taken at a rather unusual place, the Owl House in South Africa. Read more to understand this artists’ visions working broken glass in concrete.
Sherry chose #7946. Yes, it’s the back end of an elephant, not a push me pull you. Addo Elephant National Park is a favorite place to visit in South Africa, especially to see elephants. However while on safari in any park I saw lots of butts as animals walked away. My travel companion laughed at all my butt shots but I told her I’d do a complete blog post on butts. Then turned out I did a post on head shots too.
Jo chose #1796. I’ve crossed this suspension bridge over Storms River several times when visiting Tsitsikamma National Park along the coast of South Africa.
Sallie and Bill chose #841. The sand is fine and lovely at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park near Kanab, Utah.
Jeff chose #4308, the designation date of a Torrey Pine as the first of 13 Heritage trees in the city of Coronado. He plans to blog about this soon so check him out. In the meantime, you can see this Speckled Weaver hanging around at Gelbek restaurant looking for food scraps in West Coast National Park, Langebaan South Africa.
I’ve been labeling photos from January 2021 and found this shot I really like and hadn’t shared yet. Looking down on Quartzsite from a BLM camp along Plomosa 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.
Do you have a favorite this week?
Thanks for the memories.
If you ever see an archived photo that you’d like to see in the next Geogypsy calendar please let me know.
I just love the photo of you and your brother Gaelyn, he certainly looks a lot like you,also those dramatic shots of Grand Canyon Fav this week is Looking down on Quartsite. No 0832 for next week please. Have a good weekend and stay safe.
Thanks. We look nothing alike anymore. #0832 for next week.
Lots of fun ones today. I loved mine, of course, St Helens has a special place for me in my memories having lived through the eruption. The falling down fence made me laugh. Loved the shot of the power plant only because I know now it has been dismantled. When we were there last it was sad to see the pollution from that plant, and yet sad to know that it supplied a large amount of needed money to the Navajo. Such a conundrum. And Lake Powell? Let her go. Love reading about all the areas of Cataract Canyon that are now reappearing. Next week: 1993 for the year I ran Cataract Canyon.
Looking down on Quartzsite is a beauty and I enjoyed re-reading the link. I think you were quite happy around there. Butts made me laugh out loud !! So many versions… lol And of course I followed the head shots too. The Zebra was my favorite in at post followed by the guardian lioness. Thanks as always for sharing! Next week # 1427
Thanks. I really do love the Sonoran Desert, during winter anyway. #1427 for next week.
Thanks. I’d love to be able to paddle on the shrinking ‘lake’ and see some of the old Glen Canyon. #1993 for next week.
I loved mine, thank you for thinking of me! I love the elephant butt, too. You have amazing photos. Yes, I say this all the time, but it ought to be said. #9292
Thanks. I do love to hear that. #9292 for next week.
Hello Gaelyn, I loved the image of you and your brother. Is he still alive? If so, are you close? I remember you saying you had many butt photos! I love the swing bridge over Storms River. My number next week, via random.org is9653. Have a great week. Jo
Thanks. My brother lives in Las Vegas, a place I don’t want to go for many reasons. #9653 for next week.
We love the elephant butt, but the last shot has to be a favourite this week and that looks like a great calendar shot to us. Meanwhile we are so enjoying the moon between the hoodoos this month. The fallen female fence made us laugh, Nigel’s Dads fence regularly looks like this in the garden in the UK when they have high winds. We don’t think it has been down for a couple of years so it could happen again any time! The pic of you and your brother is a great one.
Hope that all is well and you are keeping safe. So many ‘rules’ are slowly being lifted here that we feel sure by the end of August, and holiday season will be ending, that the infection rate will shoot up again. So many French are anti the vaccination which does not help!
907 for next week please. Hugs from us both, Diane and Nigel.
Thanks. I too am enjoying the moon between hoodoos this month. Maybe I’ll get lucky again. We have our share of antivaxers also. Americans are traveling and mostly not masking. #907 for next week.
So many photos to love here, I like the fallen female fence shot because of the back story. The photo of the Navajo Power Plant that is now gone was interesting also. A prime example of one state exporting pollution to another. I regret the loss of jobs and income though.
I love that last photo, incredible color!!
2610 for next week!
Thanks. We were proud of that fence, each time it went up. 😉 The power plant wasn’t supplying much power, nor does the Glen Canyon Dam. #2610 for next week.
Love my elephant butt picture. What fun that I got that one this week and even more fun that you were able to see it in person. I think you and your brother are as far apart in age as I am from mine except he is younger. We never had anything in common or ever really played together or ever really had much of a relationship. Hope your situation was different. Those two Grand canyon pictures are just superb. And I also like the final shot that you chose. Wonderful skies. I too am very glad to see the power plant gone and wish the lake were as well and the flooded area could be restored. It should never have been done in the first place. I’ll take number 4647 for next week please.
Thanks. I saw lots of butts on safari. My brother and I grew up distant with him in boarding school much of my youth. Still not close. The only problem with removing Glen Canyon Dam is changing the environment downstream, again. #4647 for next week.
The twoGrand Canyon shots are my favorites this week. Got a good chuckle out of the falling down fence, all that work! #1712 for next week please.
Thanks. The fence was a constant laugh for us. #1712 for next week.
As always great photos and a wide variety of them. Wish I had more pictures from my childhood. For next week I’d like 713, as we will start our summer travels on July 13.
Thanks. I am fortunate to have some photos from childhood but missing most of my teen years. Have a great summer adventure. #713 for next week.
The Grand Canyon shots are hard to beat, but my favorite this week was the opportunity to learn about the Owl House. What a unique place! Number 63 for next week please!
Owl House was an very unusual place. Glad you liked it. #63 for this week.
Thank you — loved them all — only it all makes me realize how much I would really like to get on the road again!
Hope you do get on the road again soon.