This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including sandstone in many places, several 1900s oldies, and a black White Rhino.
Sue gets #145 for the number of words in her last comment (same as the week before). Turns out to be one of four in a panorama taken in Sedona, Arizona. One of many places I toured with a friend after she traveled to Arizona with me after my 2007 season at Oregon Caves.
Sherry chose #9595. More colorful sandstone, this time located northwest of above, along the hike from the Wave.
Jeff chose #148 for “the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby.” There was no running going on during my first, or any other, 2008 rim to rim hike across Grand Canyon. After about five miles down, the North Kaibab trail follows Bright Angel Creek through Bright Angel Canyon.
Alan chose #8185. Once again more sandstone, further northwest in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada. A short yet exquisite slot canyon along the White Domes Trail is easily negotiated.
liberalwarrior gets #119 for the number of words in his last comment. My ex-husband hiking the Norway Pass trail during my first season at Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument in 1992. Twelve years after the eruption showed lots of Fireweed and even some green regrowth. (Scanned and digitized)
Rita gets #35 for the number of words in her last comment. A 1971 mini-print, later scanned, of me getting ready to board the canoe my boyfriend was in. Taken in Champagne, Illinois.
Diane and Nigel chose #605. This cropped photo was taken in 2009 but the shells and bird skull were collected many years before. It was a still-life sitting on a table in Yarnell, AZ.
Jennifer chose #2301. A panorama sunset over Grand Canyon from the North Rim Lodge. Rangers get paid in sunsets.
Sallie and Bill chose #5622. Hopi hoop dancer at Heritage Days on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Cathy chose #9531. Watson Lake in Prescott, Arizona features boulders of granite surrounding the waters held back by a dam. Later, the clouds turned into a gorgeous sunset and a full moon rose over them eventually.
Gypsy chose #5809 for “my first real solo journey…” Well, I wasn’t solo for this first time camping at Leisure View Caravan Park in South Africa near the every delectable Mac Banana. Pretty campground huh?
Jo chose #4175. A White Rhino covered with black mud watched by a Zebra at Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Doris chose #15, “the length of a new canoe I just bought.” My wedding day, June 1980, and it lasted 15 years. Our canoe was 17 feet, and we took the kids on the Boundary Waters in Minnesota for two weeks, and decided to move west from Illinois to Washington.
My choice from May 1988, the little yellow sailboat my ex and I lived on for a summer moored on Lake Union, Seattle, Washington.
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
Oh WOW, Gaelyn, what an interesting post. And I LOVE your bridal outfit. You have lived, and still are living, such an interesting life. I always have to check which is the square lipped rhino and it’s the one that my number brought up. My number for next week is 9564 (the last invoice I worked with just before taking a break and visiting your blog.) Thanks for always sharing. Jo
Thanks. I wouldn’t have known one Rhino from another if not for Joan. #9564 for next week.
Beautiful bridal photo of you. That sailboat looks kind of small to be living out of!!
Love the rhino pic, and the Hopi dancer, and all the rest.
7212 for next week.l
Thanks. At 22 feet it was tight living but in summer the cockpit and great outdoors were the living room. #7212 for next week.
OOOOhhhh….I LOVE the Sedona ones! So much color!
Thanks. I do love the landscape but am unimpressed with the yuppy town.
Such a smorgasbord of photos to delight. That campground in my photo IS green and lovely. I love the tabletop nature still life. What a beak! The grand canyon sunset, white rhino with zebra, and beautiful you at wedding. #0910 please, for meteor shower viewing near Mayer.
Your skull gift is in a different still life that will be in the next video. #0910 for next week.
What an interesting wedding dress..love it! #4186 for next week please.
Thanks. I loved that dress. #4186 for this week.
As always a great set of photos. Do you know what bird that skull is from it has a huge beak? Fabulous Slot Canyon, and we love Hopi Hoop and the rhino, but our favourite has to be you on your wedding day. You look amazing and love your dress.
Take care and keep safe, hugs, Diane and Nigel.
1305 for next week please.
Thanks. Not positive about the bird skull but thinking an egret or heron as I found it near the Salton Sea, CA. I loved that Gunne Sax dress. Bought it to wear to HS prom. #1305 for next week.
I got truly lucky this time, once again. Love the Sedona photos, perfect panorama. I will choose 1971 for the very first time I drove our 1960 beat up Ford Fairlane down Oak Creek Canyon and saw Sedona for the first time. My grandmother lived most of her life in Southern California and Sedona was a favorite place for her to go with her lady friends. On another note…have we had this conversation before? Just two weeks before this wedding day of yours, I was married, only instead of me wearing the Gunne Sax dress, my three daughters were dolled up in matching Gunne Sax. I first went dancing with Lance in 1976 in a red plaid with black velvet trim Gunne Sax dress. I dreamed about him last night, and that night dancing at the lonely bar on the Lewiston Hill in Idaho (before they sidelined the iconic crooked highway) is a memory I will always treasure. It had big puffy sleeves and of course, was floor length.
Thanks. I do love to take panos. Also like the red rock formations around Sedona, but not the town itself. We have so many cross references. I bought that Gunne Sax dress for prom. Loved that pic of your daughter in the plaid dress. #1971 for next week.
Love your wedding day pic. Interesting and beautiful group of photos. Visited Sedona many years ago as a stopover to the South Rim, hiking trip of course. Wish I’d had the foresight AND $$ back them to buy a little piece of land! Too young & too poor!! Hahaha Next week #3022
Thanks. Buying land in the past would have been a good investment almost anywhere, but especially in Sedona. #3022 for next week.
Love Watson Lake with the clouds. Of course the rhino is such a treat, and your wedding dress is gorgeous – what a pretty bride!
7727 next week please
Thanks. I loved that dress. #7727 for next week.
Lovely selection of photo’s here Gaelyn, Great one of you in your wedding dress. The sunset over Grand Canyon from North Rim lodge is spectacular. My fav is the Hopi hoop dancer at Grand Canyon National Park. Have a wonderful week end and stay safe.
Thanks. All sunsets were grand at the canyon.
Like the Sedona pictures – another bucket list place for me. I understand I would have liked it a lot better 12 years ago when we first started out but with all the RVers on the road now, that might be said of a lot of places. Great picture of the slot canyon. They are so intriguing. Really nice North Rim sunset showing the Lodge balcony I assume. Great placement. We were lucky enough to see the Hoop dancer during Heritage days. A great memory, thanks. I just can’t believe you saw that rhino in person. WOW! My favorite this week is beautiful you in your wonderful wedding dress the year my daughter Carrie was born. Looks like a lot of people forgot to ask for a number so I will remember. 8379 please.
Thanks. Sedona’s landscape is breathtaking, I am unimpressed with the yuppy town. #8379 for this week.
Your nuptial outfit is perfect! But living in Kirkland while going to school in Seattle I daily passed the house boats in Lake Union. That must have been a fun time!
For next week I’d like 517 as Fran heads to Ohio on May 17,
Thanks. I loved living on our tiny boat in Seattle. #517 for this week.
We love looking at the full-time live aboard boats… it’ seems l sort of like the RV culture in that so many different sizes and types can be at the same dock (I’m sure there are fancy ones where smaller boats aren’t allowed, just like the big motor home exclusive RV Parks, but we don’t care about those on land or sea). I liked our hoop dancers a lot — something I’ve always wanted to see. Thanks for sharing all the memories. 8500? Next time.
Live aboard was a much smaller community than full-time RVers, and ours was one of the smallest. Couldn’t even stand up in the cutty cabin. #8500 for this week.
Your multiple posts of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness and…The Wave, are an important visual information contribution to that now iconic SW topography and spectacular scenic trail adventure. Thanks for those links to those posts.
Crossed paths>
The Grade ‘old & new’ down to North Lewiston is spectacular. I first went up the old grade when I was about (4) our in our families 1930 Model-A . Later we went down the Grade in our 48′ Pontiac a heavy car that as I remember had Dad a little nervous early on about the brakes going down the Grade. Dad, my brother, and I were all born just north of there. Dad in Moscow. My brother in Pullman. And I in Colfax. Was up and down the grade many times over the years, in the heat and snow and ice. Always an adventure(I had a Log home mill up the Clearwater out of Weippe).
You and I and Kyotesue were married days, weeks, or hours apart?.
A summer living on a Tanzer ! I spent many summers on my Kent-Ranger 24 which, accommodation wise, is a big step above the fun to sail Tanzer. One of my best Friends had a Yellow Tanzer just across from my berth on the Columbia so I had a lot of Tanzer experience over the years. He traded that Tanzer for a 21-ft. Freedom and later we partnered for many years on a 42-ft. CSY based in Ft. Lauderdale. I had my Ranger for 32-years. Miss it greatly, but looking recently for a another boat to be based near Portland.
#1357 for nwxt week.
Thank you. Most people don’t seem to post much about the fabulous hike TO the Wave. The Grade ride sounds exciting, except during snow. I was married June 26th, 1980, divorced 1996. We couldn’t even stand up in the cabin of the Tanzer, but it was fun. #1357 for this week.