This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including desert, dunes, waterfalls, and the Colorado River.
Jim and Diana chose #9997, “for what seemed like the amount of grout joints I cleaned the mortar out of yesterday on our hex tile floor.” They have built a beautiful house for all the effort. On the other hand, my little house on wheels is beautiful but where I park it the views are. February 2018 I boondocked off the Kings Valley Road on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
Jennifer chose #0362. Imagine going on safari in a hot air balloon. I wanted to when visiting Pilanesberg Game Reserve but couldn’t get a reservation.
Cathy chose #3170. Maybe she knows what kind of butterfly this is seen on the North Rim Grand Canyon in 2015. I don’t have my field guides with me.
Rita chose #2129. Looking upstream on the Colorado River from 3000 feet up at Toroweap overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
Diane and Nigel chose #807. If you’re ever around Kanab, Utah, I highly recommend visiting the nearby Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park.
Alan chose #2880. The magic of low clouds swirling around Wotans Throne from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
Sue chose #7864, “for my son’s birthday.” A Sonoran desert sunset in his memory from Darby Well Road BLM boondock near Ajo, Arizona.
Sherry chose #3920. Note the small arch seen from House Rock Valley Road in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
Jo chose number 9355. Augrabies falls in her home country of South Africa.
Gypsy chose #2011. A late light view from camp at the Kelso Dunes in Mojave National Preserve, California.
Sallie and Bill chose #816. Not sure what stretch of the Colorado River, but this was from my National Park Service rafting trip summer of 2011.
Barb chose #63. She lives in Florida so may know this site of the Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine. I visited during the winter of 2005.
My choices from a July road trip 20 years ago camping somewhere on the Rogue River National Forest, now part of the Siskiyou National Forest. Maybe Sue will know. My first season as a Park Ranger in 2002 at Oregon Caves I spent a lot of time exploring the area.
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
Always a difficult choice to make but I think a Sonoran desert sunset, just about takes the favourite this week with Augrabies falls a very close second. Having said that we would love to visit the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. fascinating the colour of the sand.
1507 for next week please. Enjoy your time at the Canyon and have a good weekend. Hugs Diane and Nigel
Thanks. Coral Pink’s visitor center has the most amazing collection of sand from around the world and I’m blown away by all the colors. #1507 for next week.
I love the name Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park.
1055 for next week.
The sand is coral colored. Part of the dunes are used by OHVs. 🙁 #1055 for next week.
Looks like you were camped near Union Creek along the Rogue. You must have explored the area around Crater Lake because Vidae Falls is actually in the park, the second photo, and the first photo is Barr Creek Falls in the area somewhere near Prospect. Love it up there. I will choose 2005 for the first time we camped at Union Creek on the Rogue in the first baby MoHo.
Thanks for that. I went from there up to Crater Lake. (Didn’t label photos as well back then.) I love how our trails have overlapped through the years. #2005 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, Your photo’s get more exciting each week. I simply love the one of the Low clouds around Wotans Throne on the North rim Grand Canyon Also the Sonoran desert sunset. However ,fav this week is the one I chose last week. Looking upstream on the Colorado River at North Rim Grand Canyon Nat Park. No 6655 for next week please. Have a great weekend.
Thanks. Monsoon and inversion are so dramatic at the canyon. And then there’s Toroweap. #6655 for next week.
I really have to get us to those Coral Sand Dunes!!! OMG those falls in South Africa are incredible. 6655 for next week please.
Coral Pink is cool, though part of it is noisy with OHVs. #6655 for next week.
I enjoyed the dunes in my pick, seeming both ephemeral and eternal. The Ajo sunset and anything Oregon:) Speaking of, for an Oregon home-state trip when had only one child, scared of the dark windows at night, moving us to stop before nightfalls, #1982 please. Have more fun in GC.
Thanks. Hope that now grown up child isn’t still afraid of the dark. #1982 for next week.
That was also weird. I posted my main comment at the very end and it placed it below Gypsy and below your reply to Gypsy. Coyote must be playing tricks. See where this one lands. Posting this at very end.
I’m guessing Checkered Skipper for the butterfly. Found my way to the top (not inside) of Abbey’s Lookout this past weekend & a breath of fresh air. Gave a wave of hello South to you. My fave this week as you could already guess, the magical Wotan’s Throne. Next week #5072.
I’ve always used cell phone for commenting so not sure why it’s not acting proper either. Cell phones; love hate relationship at times.
Thanks, I was thinking Skipper. I got lucky at Abbey’s lookout and the door was unlocked. Of course that cabin is a nightmare. I waved back. 😉 #5072 for this week.
Such a different world out there! Our kids are enjoying Greece. I am loathe to travel. COVID is up. sigh.
#2000
So many things to see, so little time. Should have put the kids in touch with Rita in Greece. I travel and stay away from people as much as possible. Wouldn’t want to fly right now or go overseas. #2000 for next week.
OW WOW, Gaelyn. My number chose your beautiful photo of Augrabies falls. I think I’ve told you before: when we stopped there in 2012, there was a drought and there was almost no water coming over the falls. I also love your Rogue river image. My number for next week is 9576 please. Have a great weekend. Jo
I remember you mentioning the drought. And I saw it in flood. #9576 for this week.
All fabulous photos, but I’m drawn to those of ‘your’ Canyon. But a sunset from Darby Well is pretty awesome also. For next week I’d like 725 (July 25) the date of our family reunion at Mt Shasta this year.
Thanks. Mt Shasta should be beautiful. #725 for this week.
Love the waterfalls from your road trip 20 years ago. I just can’t get enough of waterfalls. Also a fanaticizing about being in that raft going down the Colorado. Imagining those are my eyes seeing it. The light you caught at the Kelso Dunes is arresting. I’ll try 6830 for next week.
Thanks. I sure do miss seeing waterfalls so really enjoy yours. #6830 for this week.
Our picture is a dream trip — that at this stage will undoubtedly stay in the dream category. Thank you for sharing ! I am having a hard time catching up with my virtual life — the real stuff keeps getting in my way. Thanks for sharing all you do.
I have lots of those kinds of “dream trips” on my list. Keep on with the real stuff, as it’s so much better than most of the virtual. I sure get that. I’m behind too. Thanks for your virtual friendship for so long.