This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including far views, a unique phenomenon, and a trip down the Pacific Northwest coast.
Jo chose #1302, her birthday. I would love to spend my birthday at White Pocket where the ancient dunes turned to stone show diverse colors and patterns. Driving there requires a 4×4 to cross soft sand along the way.
Cathy chose #8120. I did spend my 2015 birthday at the South Rim Grand Canyon where I spotted this old locomotive parked by the train station. Not sure if it’s still used to haul visitors on the rails between Williams and the canyon.
Diane and Nigel chose #2910. When they visited me at Grand Canyon we went to Cape Royal but sadly didn’t get to see this optical phenomenon called a Glory or brocken spectre.
Jennifer chose #234. It’s a long straight road across Sage Flats from Kanab, Utah to the Kaibab Plateau in northern Arizona. A drive I made numerous times.
TreDeuce gets #147 for the number of words in his last comment. I’m betting with his extensive SW travels he’s been to Lee’s Ferry where this old structure remains from the era of ferrying across the Colorado River instead of the Navajo Bridge.
Sherry chose #8133, one of five in a panorama. The lovely Autumn colors on Aspen seen on the Kaibab National Forest.
Alan chose #3871. An elephant almost hidden in the bush at Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Gypsy chose #1115, “date of Rosetta landing on comet’s shady side. A mid-day visit to Brian Head brought no shade at all but even in July wasn’t terribly hot at 11,000 feet. Love that panoramic view of the high meadows to the Pink Cliffs of Cedar Breaks National Monument and beyond.
Rita chose #4374. Looking down on the temples and across Grand Canyon from North to South with the San Francisco Peaks on the horizon.
Sue got #90 for the number of words in her last comment. Being a “soil” gal I’ll bet she’d love to shovel into this hummock, a piece of Mt St Helens, seen along the Truman trail during a 1992 hike while working at the National Volcanic Monument.
My choices from November 1996, after my season with USFWS along the Columbia River when I took a road trip, with a new-to-me camper that leaked, west to the coast and south in stormy weather with stops along the way. That road trip took a month to travel the west coast from Edmunds, Washington to Los Angeles.
Ferry boat Edmunds Washington
Keko the Killer Whale Oregon Aquarium
Oregon coast
Redwood National and State Park California
Mattole Beach, Hidden Coast, King Mts, California (and had the place all to myself)
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Do you have a favorite this week?
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Another lovely set of photos & a lot of familiar ones that I never tire of seeing. I like my train picture. Brings lots of happy memories & connection of growing up in West Virginia. Have a good week!
Thanks. Always fun when my photos are from places you know.
Love the picture of White Pocket. So beautiful and interesting but a place I doubt I’ll ever see since a 4X4 is not in my future. What a fantastic picture of the “Glory”. I’d never even heard of it. Spectacular photo. Has it been in a calendar? You really should submit some of these photos to contests and magazines and to the Sierra Club for The Daily Ray of Hope . The picture at Brian Head reminds me of Scotland. What a beautiful scene. I’ll bet RVing in 1996 was heaven although a leaking camper is a REAL problem. But heaven in that it wasn’t the most popular gig in town and those shots of you in the Redwoods and deserted beach in California could probably never be taken now. SIGH. Let me try 973 for next week please.
Thanks. Unlikely I’ll get back to White Pocket for the same reason but there are tours offered. I think the Glory came before I was doing calendars. So many photos and so little time for submitting to any contests. Long gone are the days of quietly camping in places now overrun with people. #973 for next week.
While I have kayaked the entire Oregon coast, I still haven’t driven all of it. Despite having driven the Pacific Coast from Cabo to Lund, BC. I’m still short one piece in Oregon from Gold Beach to Reedsport. Someday.
‘Lee’s Ferry’… yes, while those old historical human remnants hark back to the recent past of human endeavors, it’s the enduring geological history so evident in the SW that fascinates me, still.
In Utah on hwy- 89(?), it was the jumbled rock/boulder houses that intrigued me.
Thanks for the pics. Always a treat.
1965. For next week. June 11th,1965 the day I left Johnson’s Point/Olympia, Wa., a few days after getting out of H.S., with a friend to sail around Vancouver Island in a Blanchard Junior. I finished that trip by myself as my friend had to leave the boat in late August, and our adventure, at God’s Pocket on the Inside Passage to get to college.
Oregon coast, and northern CA, are the best along the Pacific, IMHO. The sailing trip sounds like fun. I’ve only sailed a little bit around the Sound. #1965 for next week.
While the Norcal & Oregon Coast have their merits and beautiful Vistas, and Oregon it’s beach access, the Washington coast north of Aberdeen to the Cape and Port Angeles is without peer on the U.S. Pacific coast. Rugged headlands, First Nation villages, the Cape, Ozette, coves and bays and the coastal part of the Olympic National Park, and still not overrun by people. You almost have to have local knowledge to know what’s there and access the multiply nature’s of the area. I was a child the first time I went to Neah Bay on the Makah Indian Reservation. It was the first exotic place I ever had the great fortune to visit and have returned many times since.
I love the Olympic Peninsula!
Gorgeous set of photos!
Thank you.
We want to get back to Lee’s Ferry – such a pretty spot on the Colorado River! Love the bright trees and the interesting Glory. I’ve seen one before but not as “glorious” as this one :-)))
1623 for next week please.
The only glory I’ve seen. I understand they are more frequently seen from airplanes. #1623 for next week.
Glory be:) Well dog my cat! And love layers of GC. Your Oregon photos get me rolling though, as I was first nine years on Rouge River inland. Times with Gold Beach. So with that, I’ll ask #6166 close to date I left:( Thanks Gaelyn and take care.
Thank you funny lady. Love the Rouge River. You have gotten around. #6166 for next week.
Would that be the ‘Rogue’ river?
My took my granddaughter on a float trip down the Rogue. Her first river adventure.
Such lovely colourful photo’s Gaelyn,the trees look beautiful, especially the autumn colours at Aspen..I think my fav this week has got to be the little elephant at Kruger Nat Part No 1723 for next week please. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe.
Thanks. Elephants are always my favorite. #1723 for next week.
You’ve seen such sights! Just amazing. #611
I’ve gotten around a little bit. #611 for next week.
Dear Gaelyn, l love the image my number brought up. And of course, love all the other memories. Please may I have 2810 for next week. Hugs Jo
Thank you. #2810 for next week.
I had to look up the ‘Glory’, not many have seen one. My one attempt to check out California’s Lost Coast was foiled by muddy road conditions, that was years ago when California had rain!
For nest week I’d like 1198, the flight number of my brother arriving today.
I got very lucky with the glory. Recommend trying the Lost Coast again. #1198 for next week. Have a great visit.
Ooops sorry got a bit behind again this weekend. No favourites as we like too many. White Pocket is amazing and a place we would love to see, but it is now highly unlikely that we will be travelling anywhere for some time other that Europe, and then RSA will be on the first list out. That optical phenomenon in our photo is amazing and so glad that you got you share it with us. Lee’s Ferry is where I got to take the photo of you and Bill through the window, so great memories for us.
The Autumn colours are always fantastic and who cannot love an elephant 🐘
611 for next week please. Have a great weekend, hugs Diane and Nigel.
You’re not as far behind as I am. I’d put RSA high on my non USA travel list too. Yes, it was Lee’s Ferry we took you to. #611 for this week.
I had to go over and over this post and still couldn’t pick a favorite. So how about 1980, for the year the Mountain blew.
You are too funny, but thanks for looking and commenting. #1980 for this week.
I forgot a # !!! Let’s see what 8506 brings
#8506 it is.
Great photos (you spoil us). I love the White Pocket shot and the fall aspens.
My number is 1211 for next week.
Thanks. #1211 for this week.