This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including diversity at Grand Canyon, a wedding couple, and boats.
Cathy chose #7490. The campsite at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, is a short walk to an underground bird-hide and fence where many animals came in to the water-hole including these Zebra.
Gypsy chose #1203. A very different campsite view than above, flowers in a forest at Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.
Alan and random dot org chose #638. Chubby Rock Squirrel perhaps not so randomly choosing a White Fir to snack in along the Bright Angel Point Trail North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Diane and Nigel chose #312. Ribbon Falls as seen towards the bottom of Grand Canyon not far off the North Kaibab trail as seen on my third rim-to-rim hike across the canyon.
Sherry chose #5. My parents, Ray and June on their wedding day 1-3-1947.
Sue chose #1988, “the first year I saw cryptobiotic crust in the wild in Utah.” (You had to be there, or read last week’s Foto Friday Fun.) This shot is from May 1988, husband and step-son sailing our new boat, 22’ Tanzer, on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington. (More of this story at the end.)
Jo chose #2911. Clouds lifting from Grand Canyon can be like the clouds we carry in our hearts. When they rise, so do we.
Sallie and Bill chose #208. Crooked trails, like the Devils corkscrew along the Bright Angel trail, can lead us up and eventually out of Grand Canyon. Though when I took this panorama photo on 5-5-08, my first rim-to-rim, I wasn’t so sure I’d make it.
Jeff chose #2112, “for the number of ounces in the 6 kilos of shrimp we returned with.” Nice haul from Mexico. You wouldn’t catch shrimp in Crane Lake on the North Kaibab National Forest seen along the Hwy67 drive to the North Rim Grand Canyon.
My choices this week also from 1988 and feeding off Sue’s photo of the sailboat. Some of the last of my stained glass work were gifts. The first shot to the person we bought our sailboat from and they gave us free berth on Lake Union for a summer and we lived onboard. And the other to the owner of the 1940s tug boat (on left) leading in the tug boat races at Harbor Days in Olympia WA. He turned his tugboat into a Bunk and Breakfast on Lake Union.
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
Hi Gaelyn Love that photo of your parents, as a matter of fact I was quite stunned when I first saw it because, your mother looks just like me when younger,I will send you my photo for you to compare. Like the pic of the clouds lifting from Grand Canyon, also the first photo of the Zebras. My fav is in fact those clouds lifting over Grand Canyon .No 731 for next week please.
Thanks. How amazing that you look like my mother. Would love to see that picture. #731 for next week.
The stained glass is incredible! I love the way you did the water. It’s cool to see the comparison between your earliest works and your last ones.
Thank you. Practice certainly makes better at any craft.
My favorite is the fog lifting at Grand Canyon & your stained glass pieces. Very nice! Do you have any interest in starting your stained glass work up again? Next week 6087
Thanks. Stained glass isn’t a very mobile craft. I went from that to glass seed beads for many years. #6087 for next week.
I love your sailboat shot. On our trip to Seattle several years ago we stayed at a hotel where we had a great view of Lake Union. Lots and lots of boats of course.
1009 for next week according to random dot org.
Was fun living on the lake but the boat was a little small. #1009 for next week.
As ever always a difficult choice but we think the favourite has to be the photo of your parents on their wedding day. Love the stained grass and the zebra, but the Ribbon Falls and the clouds over the Canyon are terrific as well. The Ribbon Falls is not downloading properly on our computer, but clicking on the title did the trick??
1012 for next week please.
Enjoy the desert and keep warm, have a good weekend. Hugs Diane and Nigel.
Thanks. Sounds like you like them all. 😉 #1012 for next week.
2911 might be my favorite this time around. Although your comment on my photo 1988 was fun. I was on the ferry from Seattle to Bremerton in 1988 visiting with Maryruth at her son’s wedding. Small world we live in for sure. Next week….ummmm….this gets harder and harder! 2021 first thing I saw when I looked up at your calender
I love the coincidences. #2021 for next week.
I’m so far behind in my blog reading! Not that I’ve been busy, lazy in fact. Always love seeing the Zebras. What an amazing variety of life experiences you’ve enjoyed – living on a sailboat too!
4021 for next week please.
I know how that lazy thing goes. Another form of tiny house living. #4021 for next week.
Loved hearing Bunk & Breakfast. I too enjoyed clouds lifting over Grand Canyon, and us! One step at a time so #1234 please Gaelyn. I need my calendar! See you soon, Gypsy
Hard to beat any look at Grand Canyon. Good advice, #1234 for next week.
Devils Corkscrew…I felt the same was…was It ever going to end? After a 2 day out and back hike to Phantom Ranch I spent 2 days recovering in Flag. No matter, I would do that same hike again. #2063 for next week please.
Recovery is as important as the hike. Glad I did it when I could. I’d need a sherpa now days. #2063 for next week.
Oh wow, Gaelyn, your stained glass windows are beautiful. And your parents even more beautiful. Thank you for sharing all these memories. My number’s choice certainly resonated with the recent clouds over me in November. My number for next week is 2548 – a total I ended December on in my beauty marketing. Have a great week. Jo
Thank you. Was fun to work with glass but not very portable. #2548 for this week.
I’ll bet your glass works of art are still proudly displayed somewhere! Lucky recipients. Neat to know you lived on board for a year once. A dream of ours once (that was exchanged for a couple of others as they often are). … Just looking at the mountain trails in our # this time made me short of breath and energy! But beautiful. You have had some amazing adventures, land and sea — and its great to know you’re still having them!!!
7453 next time? Part of a zip code on a receipt — the first thing my eyes lighted on when I thought about numbers
Thanks, I’d like to think the glass pieces have survived. I only have a clock that I made and it hangs proudly in the 5th-wheel. Living aboard was a fun summer in tight quarters with a big livingroom. #7453 for this week.
What a great picture of your parents. Love your mother’s hair. It looks just like my mother used to do hers and use “bobby pins” to hold it back. What fun! Lovely picture of the zebra mother and child. Chubby squirrel is right. Must be lots of eats up there. Beautiful picture of the clouds lifting from the canyon. I’m going to jump to #10 for next week please.
Thanks. My mom always had a big head of hair, with those dreaded bobby pins. #10 for this week.
I’ve tried my skills at stained glass … You ROCK! I so suck at it. But my fav is the clouds over ‘your’ canyon.
For next week I’d like 1222 the James Webb Telescope is to launch on 12/22.
Thanks. Practice makes better. #1222 for this week.