Foto Friday Fun 459: every picture tells a story

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 14 readers including many animals from South Africa and western USA, nice landscapes, and more of my birthday celebrations.

Jo chose #5197.  Living in southern Africa she’s probably seen lions more than once.  Always a thrill, never gets old.  This lioness may have been out hunting—yes she looks pretty lean—in Kruger National Park, but maybe for a mate instead of food.

Jennifer chose #2000.  She may still be looking at snow piles instead of sand like seen here from camp under late light at the Kelso Dunes in Mojave National Preserve, California.

Cathy chose #2008.  Minutes later from the above shot, the truckcamper glows from a reflected sunset.

Sherry chose #3303.  South African Dassie—looks like a hamster on steroids—play in the rocks along the Indian Ocean in Tsitsikamma National Park.  They are just as pesty as small mammals in the US national parks.

Diane and Nigel chose #1103.  Not all animals are wild yet may wander on public lands, and roads.  Theses cows were hanging out on SR67 in the Kaibab National Forest.  That’s the drive into the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Sallie and Bill received #71 for the number of words in their last comment.  I was a volunteer animal keeper in 1989 at the California Living Museum (CALM) in Bakersfield.  The San Juaquin Kit Fox was an endangered species and this injured male couldn’t be rehabilitated and released.  How ironic that Bob saw, and photographed, a Kit Fox in camp Kofa last week.

Alan chose #9809.  Gorgeous sandstone cliffs surround Kanab in southern Utah.  This shot was taken near Best Friends Animal Sanctuary during August 2015.

Liberalwarrior (aka TreDuece) chose #1367.  Just one of many places to explore in the Kaibab National Forest.  Snake Gulch, don’t let the name scare you away, accesses several native petroglyphs.

Doris chose #9688.  A beautifully colored Water Monitor seen in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Rita chose #1115.  The Colorado River flows under the Navajo Bridges through Marble Canyon on its way to Grand Canyon.  Nice rest stop along SR89A with a possibility of seeing California Condors.

Keith chose #1727.  An infinite view looking south on SR89A below Echo Cliffs on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona.  You know I’m a street photographer because I take pictures while driving, safely.

Sue chose #4508.  Three days before the first photo, caught this big guy lounging along the road during a morning safari ride in Kruger National Park.

Jeff chose #1991, “the year Ukraine became an independent nation.”  The same year I left my husband and became an independent womyn attending Western Washington University and spending outdoor time in Larabee State Park where this selfie was taken, March 1991.

Jodee and Bill chose #1711.  South African Crows look different than the States, yet are just as raucous and devious as ours.  This crow hung out in Monks Cowl camp in the Drakensburg Mountains near where Jo lives.

More shots of celebrating March birthdays.  In 2005 I celebrated with my parents in Texas and the next year Berta and Darlene gave me the Grand Canyon as a present.

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