This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by ten readers including Mesa Verde, Zion, and Grand Canyon National Parks plus a National Fish Hatchery.
Jo chose #7500. A full moon shot at Solstice from Point Imperial, North Rim Grand Canyon in 2016.
Rita chose #99. Native bead work displayed in the museum at Mesa Verde National Park when I worked there summer 2005.
Liberal Warrior chose #111, for a recent temperature at the farm. Same place as above, this time hand woven rope from plant materials.
Alan chose #7671. The only time I want to travel in the otherwise crowded Zion National Park is winter, and even that not so much because of the cold. It is my favorite from this week.
Gypsy chose #1214. I like trees dead or alive, bonus with stormy skies. These two stood guard on the North Rim at Vista Encantada overlook in 2009. Wonder if they still survive?
Diane and Nigel chose #2907. An amazing phenomenon called a glory or broken-spectre shared with friends visiting the North Rim Grand Canyon during June 2015.
Cathy chose #3608. Difficult to see, but the crack was an obvious pinecone stash seen along the Arizona trail on the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona. Special thanks to Cathy for sharing my YouTube videos on her Facebook page. I NEED MORE SUBSCRIBERS! (Yes, I’m begging.)
Jennifer chose #2444. A framed view of the Colorado River at sunset from Toroweap overlook, North Rim Grand Canyon National Park in 2010. Now days you’ll need a permit for day use and camping.
Sherry chose #4773. Look close for the tiny rainbow across False Bay seen from my balcony at Moonglow B&B, Glen Cairn South Africa. There were a lot of rainbows that day.
Sallie and Bill chose #819. This South Rim Grand Canyon view including the Colorado River was from Pima Point along the Hermit Road.
My choices from August 1996 when I lived along the Columbia River with a view of Mt Hood while working for US Fish & Wildlife with an office at the Little White Salmon NFH along the river with same name, a tributary of the Columbia.
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
This is the 3,400th blog post in 18 years.
Wow, I LOVED the image my number produced. Thank you. And I love the embroidered bolero. Please can I have 2006 for next week. I won this in ZAR on the Lotto – aiming for the US Jackpot next! Have a great weekend. Jo
Thanks. If you win the US jackpot I hope you’ll have to come here to get it. 😉 #2006 for next week.
I think I’m happy you retired! You have time to show your photos, and retell your trails, um tales!
(ツ) from Jenn Jilks , ON, Canada!
Whoopsie, just remembered! #4222
Got it.
Beautiful wintery Zion & of course the Canyon pictures are faves this week. Next week #1793. Thank YOU for sharing the interesting info and links in your YouTube videos! Have a good week!
Best time to see Zion, as I’m sure you know. #1793 for this week.
Thanks. I’m happy to be retired. #4222 for next week.
Hi Gaelyn, Some dramatic photos this week and love them all ,especially that view along Grand Canyon which includes the Colorado River .If it is allowed, my favourite is the one I chose of the Native Beadwork displayed in the Museum at Mesa Verde Nat Park. I would like no 4023 for next week please. Have a great week ahead.
Thanks. I thought you’d like those museum pieces. #4023 for next week.
Congratulations on your 3400 blogs! Wow! 3400 for next week.
I liked the broken spectre and view from Toroweap.
Thanks, it’s a lot of words. #3400 for next week.
Ah yes, the framed view from Toroweap is once again my favorite. Love those dawn colors…or I am assuming it is dawn. I might get behind on Photo Friday in the next month or so, until I get over feeling a bit overloaded about packing and planning. So, I won’t choose next week, but I will hopefully at least check in. I’ll be back full speed ahead in October, though. Promise.
I do love tree frames, this one is sunset. I too might get behind on blog, especially next month when I fly to Chicago for a week for my 50th HS reunion. I’ll look forward to your travel adventures, at least on FB.
3400 blog posts is amazing and makes me tired just to think about it. My internet connections are so bad that I can’t view videos so I haven’t subscribed. I seem to be able to upload small ones to put on my blog but I can’t even view them unless I’m “in town”. Love the Zion tunnel picture and the broken spectre. Terrific shots both. As is the artistry of the Colorado from Toroweap. I’ll try # 5879 for the sad number of steps I walked today.
It’s a lot of words. #5879 for next week. Keep on walking. Though you’re doing way better than I.
Sooo many lovlies. I like mine, really majestic trees. Love your artistry; Zion through tunnel, framed Colorado and YES, moon framed by night:) Cool to see a past work place too. #1022 please. Back to the Future date (2015) We’re traveling time all the time…but what were you doing? Near date, I had 2nd grandkid, Phx valley had an earthquake and comet had Rosetta land!
Thanks. I love trees! Damn, you have an outstanding memory. I take photos to help me remember. #1022 for next week.
What a great selection and we love the shot of the Zion National Park through the tunnel, but nothing can beat our photo of the broken-spectre, wow that is incredible.
Hope you have a good Sunday and that your week it is cooler than the stupid weather we are having here. Over 30 C (80F) every day going up to 40C (104F) with no sign of rain, Record drought this year!!
Hugs’ Diane and Nigel
Thanks. The only time I’ve seen a broken-spectre, felt pretty darn special. Suppose to be almost 90°F today with no rain but 63% humidity feels brutal. Time for the AC. Stay cool. I pray for you and your garden. #208 for next week.
Ooops 208 for next week please. D
Great photos all and the Toroweap overlook shot to the canyon is my favorite, well except when I scrolled back to check on Toroweap spelling, the Pima Point shot jumped out at me. So those are my favorites.
8158 for next week.
Thanks, both canyon shots so no surprise you’d like them. #8158 for this week.
#2444 ! What a great capture.
Headed up to White Salmon and The Farm on Monday for a week with friends. The Farm has some great visual perspectives on the Gorge. Photographers and Plein Artists come up in groups for the day to shoot and paint. The Sunrises are particularly interesting to stunning.
We finally cooled down the past few days into the mid90’s, but about 20+ fires now burning in the state and the huge one just south of the border in Cali that will likely burn into Oregon.
#1987 for next week, My son’s birth year who is finally getting married tomorrow.
Thanks. I do love when trees frame a view. Wish I was joining you at the Farm. Especially if cooled down a bit as here I’m running AC daily. #1987 for this week. Enjoy the wedding.
” Wish I was joining you at the Farm” You would be most welcome. We have more friends showing up starting Thursday so I will be moving out of the house tomorrow and up to one of the cabins as we let the women have the house, but the boys do all the cooking.
The wedding was very special. You can measure a person by their friends and my son’s & new daughter’s friends flew from all over the world to attend. Their vows to each other and the many testimonies to them by their friends were memorable.
Overcast and spotty rain all day today with mid 70’s. A very unusual weather event. Spectacular Lightning now over the Cascades in Oregon. Pretty, but will cause more fires.
The Oregon side of the Gorge is terribly scarred by recent fires, but major work restoring the Old Gorge hwy still progresses and the old/new Mitchell tunnel is now open. Think of the windowed Zion tunnel.
Bigen, Hood River, and White Salmon continue building out and up with boutique shops, restaurants, and condos. The Farm remains a bastion of the old Gorge from the 70’s/80’s before the Board Heads discovered the Gorge.
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Going up to Mill-A tomorrow to see friends, then north past Willard to pick up some rough lumber at the mill for a Farm project.
Stay cool/Kool!
Sounds like a lovely wedding. Have a wonderful time there.
I’d agree to visit Zion in early Spring. My fav is another post of Toroweap, of course…
For next week I’d like 3486 the number of miles from San Diego we’ve traveled to reach our turnaround point.
Visit Zion before Spring Break then. Hard to believe you’re there already. #3486 for this week.
There were some amazing scenic pictures this week! The Toroweap view is simply stunning. I enjoyed our Pima View and learning something new — about the amazing broken spectre . And Zion, but it is sad that it is being loved to death! Loved them all. 819 next time?
Thanks. Ah, Toroweap. No bad views of Grand Canyon. #819 for this week.