This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including Grand Canyon and other red rock, elephants, scat, and a whole lot of snow.
Jennifer chose #7723. I always stop at Navajo Bridge along SR89A in Marble Canyon, Arizona in the hopes of seeing Condors. On this day in May, 2017 I saw several including #30 and #01.
Rita chose #7721. Pre-sunset on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is a time of long shadows, bonus if there’s clouds.
Diane and Nigel chose #1401. I saw a lot of wildlife during my first visit to Kruger National Park in South Africa, including the Big Five on the first day. However, elephants will always be my favorite animal to observe.
Cathy chose #2581. It’s likely she was there, and maybe even in this photo, for the week long Star Party held on the North Rim Grand Canyon for a week in June 2014.
Jo chose #1201, her youngest grandchild’s seventh birthday. Colorful sunsets make a nice gift. This one from my front yard when living in Yarnell, Arizona 4-24-09.
Sue chose #9898, imagining a world 7,876 years from now. I suspect the Grand Canyon will still be around then and maybe even watching the rise of a full moon through clouds.
Jodee and Bill chose #2345. This might be appropriate after all the shit they’ve been through remodeling because a car drove into their house. It’s coyote scat, seen along the Snake Gulch trail in Kanab Creek Wilderness on the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona.
TreDeuce chose #1361. Last week with #1359 he also got a shot of the tailless young elephant taking a dust bath in Kruger National Park, South Africa (same 2010 visit as above, different day).
Doris chose #9000. Sand dunes turned to rock and later carved by wind and water into other worldly shapes are seen in Coyote Buttes along the trail to the Wave.
Alan and random dot org chose #5231. More sandstone, similar area a above, along the Upper Buckskin trail.
Gypsy chose #4769. I learned to blow glass in the late 1980s so was doubly impressed by this mobile studio. Hopi artist, Ramson Lomatewama, creates amazing glass pieces and was set up at the 2014 Heritage Days on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park. The second shot, a piece I bought a few years later of the sunrise corn maiden.
Sallie and Bill chose #352. A birthday bouquet from Berta brightened my 5th-wheel as much as sunshine in 2009 living in Yarnell, Arizona.
Lately, I’ve seen many photos of snow posted by friends on FB so thought this series taken over a couple days the end of January, 1996 was appropriate. Most of you know I don’t like snow. I grew up with snow in northern Illinois.
I was a winter volunteer in the maintenance division at Mt St Helens’ remote Pine Creek Work Station living in government housing.
This was my window view at 22 inches of snow and before the next six inches fell.
After four days snowed-in, a monster truck snow-blower arrived to clear trail. First thing another volunteer and I did was drive her VW bug, past 8-mile Falls, to the town of Cougar, about 20 miles away, to eat. Pie first because we could.
Southeast side of Mt St Helens. Wasn’t many days later as it all melted and washed out roads that we were evacuated by helicopter.
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
OMW Gaelyn, I clicked on your Big 5 link and I am impressed you saw al Big 5 in one day in South Africa. I am heading for 69 years on earth and to date, I have never seen a leopard. Thank you for sharing all these beautiful memories. My number next week is 2101. Have a great weekend. Jo
Joan was also surprised about that first Big 5 day. #2101 for next week.
The things you’ve seen! Condors! I love it. The Big Five and necklace. Me for elephants also, and orangutans. Coyote scat very cool. Now I’m looking up dif between it and dog’s. Unless you wish to share. I love “my” photo pic of blown glass and finding out yet another your pastime. And SNOW shots. I know you may shudder just looking at them. But so COOL to see. Be well. #2007 next time for my cold stay in Churchill in Manitoba Can. at farthest northwest region of inhabited Hudson Bay and to see the great polar bears!
OMW! Polar Bears is very cool, literally I’m sure. No orangutans seen in South Africa but plenty of monkeys and nasty baboons. Hot glass was an awesome art but not practical for a home hobby. Thank goodness I could still deal with cold and snow in the 90s. #2007 for next week.
#1364 for next week.
Particularly like 7721 & 5231.
Keep sharing and sharing your expressive visual captures. Always a treat, especially for those who love the desert and sculptural rock.
Thanks. I love to share. #1364 for next week.
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Oh, the things you’ve seen! I am surprised to see snow!
We’ve been watching a glass blowing reality TV series. It is a fascinating skill.
Great photos, as always. Happy trails! #6764
I’ve seen enough snow in my life don’t need any more. #6764 for this week.
I’m not a fan of snow or cold either but I was really taken by your last photos with all the snow. When I was a kid, I loved the snow and everything about it, especially innertubing and sledding, hiking through it in the forest, the whole thing. Then I got old enough to drive and boy did my outlook change. But it does make for great photos.
I hope you are staying warm and catching all sorts of sun rays.
My number for next week is 2303.
I loved snow as a kid and also sledded, eventually as an adult I even learned to snow ski. Staying relatively warm when out of the wind and in the low 60s. #2303 for this week.
Loved them all, didn’t know you’d been evacuated from Mt St Helens when you worked there — fun adventure. Don’t love the snow, do love the birthday bouquet you lent to us — daffodills are my favorite flower, but I don’t get to see them very often here in florida. They were a huge bonus to the winter/spring we spent at home in Oregon last year. …. and of course love the elephants.
Another great post Gaelyn. Such interesting sights and links! The Big Five and that necklace. I could see Vermillion Cliffs having a necklace like that only with a single Condor’s wings stretched out. And yes…I very well could have been on the North Rim veranda or maybe just around the corner. Next week # 4438
Thanks. Check out Marble Canyon Metal Works for some gorgeous Condor jewelry. https://www.facebook.com/Marble-Canyon-Metal-Works-54842910821/ #4438 for next week.
Thanks. I too LOVE daffodils and rarely see them anymore.
My favorite is the moon over the Grand Canyon. And I always love flowers. Thanks, Berta for putting some sunshine in Gaelyn’s 5’er. I know you thought of Berta when you posted that picture of the daffodils. I certainly can relate to that nasty four letter word…SNOW! I was visiting my aunt and uncle at West Point Academy during a nursing affiliation on Long Island when I got snowed in. My uncle was in charge of the motor-pool and he called the nursing school to tell them that as long as he wasn’t allowing any vehicles to leave the Post, he was not allowing me either. It turned into a nice long weekend! I have never picked a number for a photo, but I will choose 1112, my oldest daughter’s birthday. You know her.
Thank you. I think of Berta every day. Great snow story. #1112 for this week, for you and Sally.
As always such great photos of your travels/memories. You are awesome!
For nest week I’d like Jan 20. Meat Loaf died on 1/20 of Covid complications.
“If they say the feeling’s gone then it’s time to take it back.” ~Meat Loaf
Thanks. Made me blush. Another great one bites the dust. #120 for this week.
Oops the last two days vanished somewhere and I did not switch on the computer!! An interesting set of photos and of course I love the elephant photos. I sort of saw the Big 5 last time we were in Kruger 2019 but the leopard was only a sighting of the back end and its tail. Despite waiting for ages we saw no movement at all other than a twitching tail LOL Those last snowy shots make me shiver!!!! 2201 for next week please.
Keep safe and warm. Hugs from us both, Diane and Nigel
How come I’m so busy now that I’m retired? LOL! You all warned me. So I know where you’re coming from. My leopard sighting was similar, and far away. #2201 for this week.
Would enjoy trying my hand at glasses blowing. There is a studio near me that offers classes…maybe after Covid calms down I’ll try a class. #914 for nex4 week please
Go for the class, it’s an awesome craft. #914 for this week.
Hi Gaelyn. Wonderful photo’s as always and I love the one of the sunset at Yarnell Arizona and, of course I love elephants, Fav this week Your window view of 22 inches of snow, not that I would like being there at that time. Snow always looks ;pretty on the trees. Hope you had a great weekend.
Thanks. I loved that pile of snow on the pole and covering the trees. Sadly the wet snow weight did break branches.
Empty brain this morning…even though I waited a day to comment. I did love the dusty elephant. and the daffodils. and my moor rise. Still very cold and foggy here. I think next year we won’t stay home in January no matter COVID or the price of fuel!
I identify with that feeling, way too often. Sometimes comfort outweighs expense.
Condors – WHOO HOO!! Love those elephant pictures, both of them. And LOL at Coyote scat! Perfect for Jodee and Bill. Great sandstone pictures. It’s just so amazing that dunes can turn to rock and be so exquisite. No thanks to the snow pictures. I’ve seen enough of it this year to have covered the previous 10 years when I saw none. Thank goodness it wasn’t 28″. How did you do it?? Pie first is right! I’ll try #4202 for next time.
The geology of Earth is amazing. Guess I was better equipped to deal with the snow back then. #4202 for this week.