This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 14 readers including Grand Canyon like most don’t see, elephants, and the beginning of my birthday month.
Doris chose #8951. The 2014 location where I lived while working at the North Rim Grand Canyon provided a view from my back windows overlooking Transept Canyon.
Gypsy chose #2017, a “trip to Patagonia and Velvet Elvis.” The later turns out to be a restaurant with a bent towards gourmet pizza. This Aspen also shows a bent, trunk that is. This growth pattern is often caused by the weight of heavy snow on a young sapling. Saw this particular tree along the Arizona Trail during August 2010.
Sallie and Bill get #70 for the number of words in their last comment. Me at 2 1/2 and my brother almost ten in 1956, Hinsdale, Illinois.
Jennifer chose #1925. The Eye of the Needle as seen on my overnight hike in the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa with Jo’s son as my guide.
Cathy chose #6290. Being she lives kind of close to the North Rim Grand Canyon I’m hoping she’s been there during an inversion. When the clouds drift below the rim and swirl around temples creating a magical scene I call the breath of the dragon. Rangers get paid in sunsets, this is overtime.
Wanda chose #4675. An elephant isn’t always easy to see in the vast landscapes of Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Sherry chose #2262. I’ve always liked rock built houses, old or new, but this might be extreme. At Hovenweep National Monument this native ruin is called Eroded Boulder House.
Susan chose #2932. Yet another look at inversion in Grand Canyon seen from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim.
Sue chose #8240, “for Mo’s birthday this week.” My birthday’s this month, and this photo was taken in March, 2014 at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa. Ok, that was a stretch. 
Diane and Nigel chose #2602. Pretty sure I took this shot because of the yellow flowers lining the road, SR95 East sort of towards Bryce Canyon. August 2015 I would have been a passenger with Bill driving. They actually met him during their visit to Grand Canyon.
Jo chose #2698 the reservation number of arriving guests. Another example of inversion on the same day as Susan’s choice above, this time from the Walhalla overlook. I am reminded of the low clouds dancing around her nearby Drakensburg Mountains.
Alan and random dot org chose #5410. Looking up like a tiny creature moving through a drip sand castle. That’s how I felt in the slot canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
Jodee and Bill chose #1533. Just a tease of fall color on the Aspen against the darker evergreens. Along the road to the Widforss trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Jeff chose #529, “to reflect the local diesel price” in Southern California. Guess I won’t be heading that way soon. In May 2009, when this shot was taken, diesel averaged 2.227/gal. I was camped along House Rock Valley Road in southern Utah.
March is my birthday month! I was born between the grandma’s birthdays, Bea Olmsted and Francis Loomis. One the 25th and the other 27th. Mom said she planned it that way.
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
For those new to the blog and/or Foto Friday Fun I want to explain how I do this. I have always been diligent about labeling my photos. When I scanned prints and started shooting digital I added numbers to the descriptive labels (usually starting over daily or monthly) Eventually I started using the camera default number along with my label. That means that a lot of old photos have very low numbers. Anyway, when you leave a comment with a number, I start with my oldest photos stored on external drives and run a search with your number. I usually choose the oldest on file that hasn’t been published on the blog already. Guess I don’t have to explain my complicated system any further. Needles to say, I am OCD about labeling my photos, amongst other things.
Eroded Boulder House. I have never seen this amazing ancient domicile. Will have to visit it.
Hovenweep is a delightful and quiet little monument.
Wow what a great set of photos, we love them all, the boulder house is unique and so is everything else, your photos are always special. Favourite has to be you and your brother, so glad you scanned many photos before the fire. 403 for next week please. Wish we could have you over for a slap up birthday meal. Cheers and hugs, Nigel and Diane
Thanks. I’d love to meet you in RSA for my birthday. #403 for next week.
Cute picture of you and your brother. What a sweet thought your momma shared about your birth date. Happy Birthday Month to you!! Breath of the Dragon – love that interpretation. Yes I have been at Cape Royal during an inversion. Quite a majestic sight to behold. Thanks for answering my curiosity about the bent aspens I’ve seen. I never knew why some were bent like that but totally makes sense about weight of snow! Happy weekend to you!
Thanks. Mom would probably have held me in to avoid preference for grandmothers. I could never understand when visitors were disappointed about inversion. #4921 for next week.
I forgot to pick a # !! Next week # 4921. Thanks!!
All great pictures, had to look hard to find the elephant at KrugerI. Enjoyed the inversion at the North Rim the most. #1898 for next week please.
Thanks. Inversion was magical at the canyon though many visitors were disappointed when they couldn’t see. #1898 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, let me start at the last image: you GO girl and have a wonderful birthday month. I had 12 days of birthday celebration last month. I love love LOVE that you have diligently numbered your photos. Mine are a nightmare sometimes and I watch agog when I see how you share images and memories with your neat selection. I also love that my choice number produced such a lovely image of inversion and that you linked it back (making me take a second look) to the image chosen by Susan. I also marvel at the incredible image of The Eye of the Needle here in our beautiful Central Drakensberg. My choice of number this week is because of a very special date in my life today. 4372. I was married 50 years ago on 4th March 1972. Great nostalgia and memories. Have a great weekend. Jo
Thanks. We should all celebrate birthdays on more than just one day. Once I get behind labeling photos it takes forever to catch up, if ever. I am over a year behind right now. I just saw the pic of you and Grant in SA when I visited. Happy Anniversary. Big Hug! #4372 for next week.
I love my elephant photo for this week. Not a stretch in the least. So this time I will choose 1206 for the month and year I sat on the trunk of a baby elephant in Thailand.
Thanks. Though I am kind of sorry to hear about the Thailand experience I am sure it was cool. #1206 for next week.
Yeah, I do know that it is controversial. However, the place we went to was supposedly really good for the elephants. Saving them from land mines in Myanmar that would blow up their legs. Several of the elephants were in rehabilitation from really awful injuries. By being there, we contributed to the rehabilitation efforts and helped pay for treatments. I read a lot about it back then, and of course, wild elephants in Africa are the best, but working elephants in India, Myanmar, and other countries in that part of the world deal with a lot of awful conditions. So these guys were lucky and happy, and the little guy was adorable.
Having worked in wildlife rehab I understand not all animals can be released back into the wild.
Happy Birthday Month and I’m glad you have upped your birthday game. My birthday month is April so I claim 67 days on either side of the date plus the day itself. So this year my birthday is actually 135 days long.
I love the inversion pics!!
Next week, random dot org says 7157
Keep on geotrucking!!
Thanks to you I’m up to celebrating for a month. However, I see I will have to up the anti again, maybe next year for the big 69. #7157 for next week.
BTW, I want a trail cam for my birthday. 😉
I love my picked pic and lol on your segway again. Mystery solved thx how tree bends occur. AND that it was taken on AZT which my retired brother started on before trekking long thru-trails. Like baby-you between elders. You could be statue of liberty holding the torch. Nice sibling photo!. Caption? How about “I have your truck and what you gonna do about it?” #529 please, for meeting brother off AZT North TH @ Vermillion Cliffs.
Thanks, I try 😉 I’ve only walked a tiny bit of the AZ. I played with his cars and he played with my dolls. #529 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, some unusual photos one of which i love is the Eroded rock built boulder house at Haven Weep National Park , actually it’s my fav for this week. No 9002 for next week please. Hope you have a good weekend.
I thought you’d like that ruin. Couldn’t go inside which is probably just as well. #9002 for next week.
Those green velvet mountains in South Africa are gorgeous.
My eroded boulder house is so very interesting when I looked at it on my laptop and clicked it to enlarge. I wonder if it could have been some sort of storage. Looks pretty isolated for a dwelling. But I love it.
Never too many pictures of elephants.
Great to see tiny little you between your grandmothers.
My favorite this week is that spectacular set of clouds in the inversion over the Grand Canyon. What a shot!
I’ll try #1207 for next week.
The ruin has other ruins around it so not totally alone, though it could have been a granary instead of a dwelling. Check out the link to Hovenweep to see more. Inversion is so special at the canyon and few get to see it. #1207 for next week.
The inversion’s photos were wonderful. I have never had the opportunity to see it in person. It is still not too late. My favorite was Hovenweep, another place I want to see. It reminded me of a reptile when I first looked at it. I hope your birthday is exceptional. My other daughter shares your month. Karen’s birthday is the 8th. #1904 next week – the year my dad was born.
Thanks. Inversions happen the most frequently during summer monsoons. So much to see in the SW. Hope to have a birthday bash somewhere this month, maybe more than once. Much warmer down here ya’ know. #1904 for next week.
These are amazing! As always. I am enjoying your journey! #0932
Thanks. I love having you along on the journey. #0932 for this week.
Happy Birthday Month. You almost share a birthday with our middle son (your Grandma Loomis did).. You were a cute and obviously well-loved 2 year old and newborn — and you are still cute and your friends all love you. My favs (besides cute you) are the inversion pictures (thanks for sharing that bonus to your sunset salary) and of course the elephants. I’ll use 2762 for the date in March when that above mentioned kid was born! He was (and is) pretty cute too ;>)
Thanks, and happy birthday month to your son. If not for Foto Friday Fun, I’d never see these buried shots from childhood. #2762 for this week.
Probably too late for a tomorrow number? Alas I loved all the pics, especially the Eye of the Needle and the sweet elephants!
#1711 for next week please.
Thanks. It’s all good. I am struggling to keep up. Will put you down for #1711 for next week.