Foto Friday Fun 462: every picture tells a story

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers beginning with panoramas and Grand Canyon, an unusual sky phenomenon beyond sunsets, northern Arizona red rock, fossils, and flowers.

Diane and Nigel chose #104, a panorama.  Towards the end of my first season as a Park Ranger at the North Rim Grand Canyon I took a 5 1/2 hour mule ride seven miles down and back on the North Kaibab trail.  I’d hiked that trail once so had an idea what I was getting into.  We rode to the scene in this image of Roaring Springs and then back.  Mules are wide and my butt hurt.  I’d rather hike it.

Cathy chose #2468.  She might recognize this Grand Canyon cliff face seen across from the Tuweep overlook on the North Rim.

Jennifer chose #9012, a panorama.  Sunset from the lodge on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.  Rangers get paid in sunsets.

Gypsy chose #2821.  An unusual phenomenon called a glory, or brocken-spectre, occurs when sun shines from above on water drops in clouds.  That’s my silhouette seen below Angels Window overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Wanda chose #4499.  A sunset birthday gift over Walker Bay after a full day of shopping and exploring in Hermanus, South Africa in 2010.

Jo chose #1145, the time she typed her last comment.  Time before that she said how much she liked the desert plants.  That’s good, because this week she gets a Prickly Pear cactus seen near my Yarnell, Arizona home during March 2012.

Doris chose #9531.  Because of the rare desert aquatic life found in this pool below The Wave, Bill walked the sandstone wall to stay out of the water.

Sue chose #1997 for the year she hauled a friend’s 5th-wheel over Comb Ridge (featured last week).  Turns out the summer of 1997 is when I began selling at flea markets and this is my first set up in Carson, Washington.

Rita chose #2174.  A sandstone Toadstool at White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona.

Sherry chose #8177, “for the scores in the NCAA basketball final 4 game…”  You’d want to be mighty careful playing basketball at the Grand Canyon where Hopi House is seen on the South Rim.  And for this shot, I was there for my 2015 birthday.

Alan let random dot org choose #5723.  Wonder if there are that many shell fossils in this shot from the Mzamba site at Wild Coast Sun in South Africa.

Jeff chose #141, “for the combined points in the NCAA men’s final.”  Was he watching the same game as Sherry?  I was watching for visitors to enter the second side of Balcony House from behind and beyond this two-room structure.  Taken while giving a tour working at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado summer of 2005.

Sallie and Bill chose #742.  Lone Rock surrounded by the waters of Lake Powell in May 2009.  The water is currently so low that rock is surrounded by dry lakebed.

My choice from April 1975 when Spring tulips grew at friend’s house in Downers Grove Illinois where I grew up.

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Hey, there’s a new video out with a walkabout tour of my last Sonoran Desert camp.  Hope you’ll check it out.