This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including national parks, forests, and wilderness, plus a great place to get lunch.
Diane and Nigel chose #2801. I always loved when inversion caused clouds to fill the Grand Canyon allowing ridgelines and rim to peek out.
Rita chose #7702. Where there’s water you can usually find wildlife. These elephants are standing all around a small waterhole in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.
Alan chose #5374. These young Hopi boys are performing the Eagle Dance at the Heritage Days on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Jo chose #6938. These unusual trees seen at Joshua Tree National Park are struggling to survive in the face of climate change.
Jeff chose #915, “the time SDG&E shut off the power for maintenance.” Won’t ever find electrical power in Wildrose Canyon at Death Valley National Park.
Sherry chose #9501. Swirling sandstone shapes of The Wave in Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.
Cathy chose #6932. Forest White sugarbush, one of many colors of Protea seen in south-central South Africa.
Gypsy chose #1177. A few wildflowers below Brian Head overlook on the Dixie National Forest, Utah.
Susan chose #1963, a panorama. Morning light shine on the cliffs above camp when I hiked into the Drakensburg Mountains with Jo’s son during my first visit to South Africa in 2010.
Sue chose #9126, 1/26 for her eldest daughter’s birthday and added a nine for a “later photo”. First is another angle on The Wave. The lower number, almost in her backyard, the Rogue River in Oregon when I floated it with fellow Rangers in 2007. What bridge is that Sue?
Sallie and Bill chose #1225. Dazzos, a favorite place for this ex-Chicagoland area gal to eat lunch whenever I drive through Wikeup, Arizona. The owner died last year so I hope the business carries on.
My choice from February 1999 when I worked at Eagles Cliff Resort in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest on the south side of Mt St Helens.
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
I always love your elephant shots, and your Wave shots, but the first photo in your post with the clouds filling the canyon with the rocks sticking out above is amazing!!
1551 for next week, Stay warm, we are at 15 degrees this morning and I have to shovel the driveway again.
Thanks. Inversion makes the canyon magic. 40° this morning with no wind, yet. #1551 for next week.
What a great set of pictures from a variety of places. Have a good weekend. Hopefully warm for you without wind! Next week #2417
Thanks. Woke to 40° and no wind, yet, with a predicted high of 63°. #2417 for next week.
Always enjoy your shot of the wave, the Forest white sugarbush looks like a very interesting flower. #9309 for next week please.
Thanks, such an amazing place. #9309 for next week.
I always find the Grand Canyon fascinating. South Africa, where I know I will only seen through your wonderful pictures, is beautiful. As for Joshua Tree, in 104 degrees F, my RV’s fan blades broke and put a hole in the radiator. Thanks to a Park Ranger, I limped into a repair shop he recommended in Twenty-Nine Palms. II did have a gallon of radiator fluid, plus water that got me in to town. Ten days there in sweltering heat was not fun and costly. Would I go back? Yes. Lots to see there. #277 next week, please.
Thanks. I wouldn’t visit Joshua Tree during summer for that reason. Glad you got help. #277 for next week.
The Wave is always a treat to see, but that cloudy canyon shot has to be my favorite this week. Or maybe the elephants…..never easy to pick just one!
7201 for next week please.
Thanks. Canyon inversion is pretty special, but then so are elephants. #7201 for next week.
Boy, did I ever hit the jackpot this week! Not only a photo of the Wave, which are almost always my favorite, but a great shot of the Galice Road-Rogue River Bridge. https://bridgehunter.com/or/josephine/bh80731/ Galice road follows the Rogue for some winding distance before climbing into the mountains to cross over and back down toward Agness on the western side just upriver from Gold Beach. But of course, you know all that! Next week 9622 for another daughter’s birthday!
Thanks. I’ve been on that road and bridge just couldn’t remember it’s name. Such a gorgeous drive. #9622 for next week.
Love the Canyon shots as you know Gaelyn I also like the elephant shot which I chose for this week but my favourite is The Grand Canyon showing the clouds twirling around. No 7777 for next week please. Enjoy your weekend and stay safe.
Thanks. Can’t go wrong with canyon and elephants. #7777 for next week.
Impossible choice today, love our shot, brilliant, the elephants are always high up the list. The eagle dance I would just love to see, the wave takes a lot of beating. Love the Drakensberg and the protea…… Never a bad shot with your photos. Have a great weekend and keep warm, spring is getting closer! Hugs from us both Diane and Nigel 402 for next week please.
Thanks. All the native dances are good but the young boys were spectacular. #402 for next week.
The pic in the clouds…I see Great Wall or a fortress:) I learned elephants nostrils expand 60% for feed, water. And that feeding town birds will not preclude their natural instincts or for food gathering :> Yay. My birdbath froze here in Congress last 2 nights brr. “Remember my Jeep shocks went out on DValley washboards! I realized Sue? Kyotesue in Grants Pass! My birthplace and home 1st nine years. Josephine Hospital, lived on Highland, then Regina Way. Mind if I give you any hometown Qs? Or Gaelyn, see if she minds? I’m quizzing my brothers on the bridge. Catch-up from last entry: never seen a small pie maker. Lovely rich plant close-ups! 25lbs of rocks?! I’ll keep in mind, but who carries scales:) #3162 for Bisbee adventures. Thanks!
Elephants also have the BEST sense of smell. I could watch them forever. I almost froze solid on those nights too. Very cool that you were born in Grants Pass. It’s the Galice bridge. Connect with Sue, she’s awesome. Hope to not collect that many pounds of rocks myself. #3162 for next week.
Oopp’s! ,1367 for next week.
Spent the other night.at the rest stop west of Tonopah on I-20. Would have liked to have met up.with you but cargo trailer to heavily loaded. Very little tire to fender clearance so no rough roads. Most paved roads were to rough with the condition some are in. Hwy-99 was brutal in places.
There will be another opportunity, if I live long enough.
Too bad you didn’t get in touch as that’s certainly not far from me. There should be a next time. Hwy-99 has always been terrible. #1367 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, thanks for sharing these beautiful memories. My favorite is your image of Eagles Cliff resort. Please could you use 8766 for my next week’s entry. Have a great day. Jo
Thanks. Except for snow, Eagles Cliff was a wonderful experience. #8766 for this week.
Well, that was a fun trip through memory lane with you (I wish all of the pictures were in my real-life memory bank and as usual I never know whether it is more fun to see familiar places through your eyes or to see the new ones. Maybe this time for sure I’ll choose the elephants and the wave as favorites — both in my wish category and probably not likely to become real. Thanks for sharing, as always.
Thanks. I do love taking you along. #155 for this week.
Darn it I did it again. # 155 for next time?
SO happy to get the wave for this week even if I missed seeing it originally. Both the wave pictures are so beautiful. I’m beginning to despair of ever seeing it in person given my life and the number of people in RVs EVERYWHERE. Just love those elephants. So glad to see them. Your picture of the Joshua Tree seemingly reaching out for a foothold, stability, water or all three is fantastic with its fellows in the background. How well designed. I’m so envious of all the wonderful canyon pictures you were able to take over your years this. This inversion has to be among the best. No number for next week obviously. Sorry to have missed this originally.
Well you are used to getting reservations so should look into the permit process for the Wave. It’s not that hard of a hike. Like you, I find trees amazing.