This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including diverse skies because I am a nepholographer, roads because I’m also a “street” photographer, my Mom in the 1940s, and a wee bit more.
Jim and Diana chose #2525, “which is not only a one-hit wonder by Zager and Evans, but is also the year the Lions will finally win a Super Bowl.” I didn’t know lions ate out of bowls, but that’s later in this post. The oldest shot with their number from 2010 is a sign posted on the compost outhouse at Toroweap campground about the fragile cryptobiotic soil crust that is full of life. So I decided to give them another photo of a sunset through the storm clouds taken through a dirty camper window at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
Cathy chose #3576. From the same visit to Anza-Borrego as above, this time a sunrise.
Rita chose #206. Perfect for an archaeologist, although this piece is not an artifact, yet. Created at the campfire program I presented at the North Rim Grand Canyon about clay coming to the ancient people. The young visitor said “it’s a pot with berries”.
TreDeuce chose #6105. A narrow backroad in Grand Staircase Escalante, the kind I love to go on and am happy when someone has a vehicle to do it.
Diane and Nigel chose #2611. A foggy day at Grand Canyon.
Alan chose #4959. If you get out early on safari it is common to see lions just waking on the warm pavement in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Sherry chose #4. My Mom’s high school graduation sometime in the 1940s.
Jo chose #2711. Spotted this camo painted motorhome at the North Rim Grand Canyon.
Sallie and Bill chose #1221, “the official first day of winter” that will soon be upon us. I will be further south, and hopefully warmer, than standing on Navajo Bridge in northern Arizona where this shadow shot was taken 9-10-09.
My choices from 2005 when I sold at the Wickenburg Gem Show held the weekend after Thanksgiving. The second shot, lower right, is the metate I posted about in the last post.
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
Always love the landscapes & backroads. Thanks for sharing. Next week 7490
Thanks. #7490 for next week.
I really missed choosing last week. Oh my goodness, photos of Anza Borrego too…this week I saw it and metal sculptures, and drove near all around Salton Sea. I googled nepholographer and up popped first…geogypsytraveler:) from 2018. I love taking sunset shots. And I have diehard pareidolia too! Just didn’t know words for these joys, but thanks to you Gaelyn. #1203 please, for TODAY, I just came out from under a certain cloud! love, Gypsy
Hope you liked AB and SS. Glad to hear you’re out from under the dark cloud. #1203 for next week.
I always enjoy your posts. I had never heard of cryptobiotic soils until I did the Leave No Trace training a month ago or so. I recognized what they were talking about now.
I love the lions in the middle of the road.
I love the sky photos, love it all!
Random dot org says 638 for next week.l
Thank you so much. I’d say most people don’t know about cryptobiotic soils, or sadly LNT either. #638 for next week.
Love the narrow backroad in Grand Staircase Escalante, the sort of place I would love to go, but ‘our’ foggy Grand Canyon is also fabulous. Great shot of your Mum.
Hating the cold weather here and we have even had a sprinkling of snow, this is only December, February is our coldest month 😒. 312 for next week please. Keep warm and have a good weekend. Hugs Diane and Nigel.
I wish we could have taken you to Grand Staircase. One more day of this cold for me. Happy to get further south before it snows. Bundle up. #312 for next week.
I’m hitting the jackpot with my pictures. Love that one of your mom’s high school graduation. She’s lovely but looks so sophisticated and older than high school grads look these days, at least to me.
Also like the great road in Grand Escalante. I’d love to have someone with the vehicle to take me there too or better yet have my own but alas, not in my future. And of course the lions but they look really really thin. I’ll do #5 for next week. Don’t want to break a good run.
I agree my 5’8″ mom looks older than I did or others today graduating from HS. I’ve thought about towing a jeep for backroad play, but then I’d have two vehicles to maintain. #5 for next week.
I loved the Anza-Borrego sunrise the best, but the cryptobiotic crust flyer was a hit too. Being a soil scientist, we studied crypto a lot in the past. I have desert rat soil scientists who have made a religion of it. Lemme see….How about 1988, the first year I saw cryptobiotic crust in the wild in Utah.
Thanks. I knew you’d like that soil sign. #1988 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, I love the shot of the camo camper my number chose. I, like Gypsy also Googled nepholograher and ALSO saw Geogypy as the first link, I always love your cloud, sky and sunset/sunrise photos. But my favorites are always your images of roads and railway lines running into the distance. Like Gypsy, I too, have just emerged from severe darkness. Made my peace with God and the issue on Monday so my number is 2911. Have a great week, Jo
Thanks. It’s good to hear you found your way to the light. I believe you and Gypsy would get along great. #2911 for this week.
I hope you are on the way to somewhere warmer than “our” picture — it looks lovely in that picture, but I know it will get cold there and where you are camped now (if you haven’t already moved). My favorites are the lions and both the skies (and by the way I have tried to learn that word nepholographer (?) so often but keep losing it … my brain is a sieve). 208 next time?
A rather pleasant 58° in the northern Sonoran desert feels nice. #208 for this week.
Great photos and beautiful country.
Thank you. I’m thinking you’ve lived in some beautiful country too, but very different than where I usually go as I don’t like snow. Hope you’ll stop by again.