Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including Grand Canyon, South African wildlife, flowers, and a taste of Mexico.

TreDuece chose #1371.  As he seems to spend a lot of time “on the road” he’ll recognize that I do also.  This is a drive-by shot, taken from SR89A, of a storm I was heading into over House Rock Valley and the Kaibab Plateau beyond.  August monsoon 2010 in Arizona.

Cathy chose #5000.  It is likely she’s watched International Hopi hoop-dancer Derek Suwaima-Davis at the North Rim Grand Canyon Heritage Days.

Diane and Nigel chose #1102.  They saw Widforss Point from the North Rim Grand Lodge during a summer visit.  This snowy view from 4-29-10, before the North Rim was open.

Rita chose #0374.  Caught this Blackback Jackal just waking up while on a morning safari drive at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa during my 2014 visit.

Jo chose #6900.  One leaf of Purple Cranesbill showed a pop of September color along the Walhalla Plateau on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Susan chose #1937.  An August monsoon morning put on quite a show over the Grand Canyon from the North Rim Grand Lodge verandah.

Sue chose #9812, “for the youngest daughter’s birthday.”  Four days after my 60th birthday I watched this leopard in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Alan gets #84 for the number of words in his last post.  Been a lot of wind lately so this “Daisies in the Wind” seems appropriate.  I taught and created stained glass in 1987 while living in Wenatchee, Washington were this shot was taken.

Sallie and Bill chose #6666, “Just to be different and because it doesn’t worry me.”  I could only laugh when the oldest shot with that number, from 7-21-15, is the Paria Cemetery, a rather remote place with a long gone town in southern Utah.  Note the colorful bentonite cliffs in the background.

Gypsy chose #4112, “April 1! stay in Patagonia’s Lucy & Desi Spartan long, long trailer.”  The trailers, called caravans, are very different in South Africa.  I don’t think people fill them with rocks. But if on the road early in Kruger National Park, you might have to avoid lions just waking up on the warm pavement, even after rain.  Thus why we sometimes find scat on roads.

Jeff chose #43, “the total points scored in Super Bowl 56.”  Not to be confused with this super bowl of a bay in Puerto Cito, Baja Mexico.  I’m thinking nobody watched TV from there in January 2005.

Sherry chose #1623.  Saw these brilliant orange flowers (maybe lilies) along the Sterkspruit Falls trail in the Drakensburg, South Africa.

Being the week of Valentine’s Day this shot seemed good.  While living in my motorhome and selling at a flea market in Yucca Valley, California during Februray of 2003 a man I dated brought me flowers.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including a variety of places in South Africa, the Kaibab Plateau in Arizona, and my first motorhome.

Alan chose #1551.  He’s been shoveling snow lately and does go out in the rain as well.  This shot of the wet forest drive after holding out for no rain while camping at Marble View.

Cathy chose #2417.  A plant she should be familiar with, fruiting Cholla, at a place she’s probably hiked, Snake Gulch trail on the North Kaibab National Forest, Arizona.

Doris chose #9309.  Sunset over the Kanab cemetery through my window when living at Crazy Horse RV park the winter of 2015/16.

Susan chose #277.  This giant amethyst geode stood about six feet tall, for sale in Quartzsite during January 2012.  I didn’t dare ask the price.  But if I had a forever home base, I’d want one big enough to sit inside, just one half.  Amethyst is a wonder calming stone.

Jodee and Bill chose #7201.  Saw these Burchell’s Zebra on an early morning safari drive in Karoo National Park, South Africa during my 2014 visit.

Sue chose #9622, “for another daughter’s birthday!”  Two days after my 2014 birthday I was chatting with warthogs in our camp at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.  Damn beggars.

Rita chose #7777, for some reason a very popular number.  While parked off grid on a friend’s land in Walnut Grove I enjoyed more than one beautiful sunset during the spring of 2020 on my way northward back to Bryce Canyon National Park.

Diane and Nigel chose #402.  Three days after opening the North Rim, May 15th 2008, and my first season working at Grand Canyon National Park, I enjoyed this view from the Cape Royal overlook.

Gypsy chose #3162, “for Bisbee adventures.”  That’s one of three in a panorama of my first adventure in South Africa and a stop at the Paul Sauer Bridge, this looking upstream of Storms River in the bottom of the canyon.

TreDeuce chose #1367.  My first visit to South Africa in 2010 and saw the Big 5 on my first day in Kruger National Park, including elephants more than once.

Jo chose #8766.  Animals she’s familiar with, Springbucks and Gemsbok, at a place I’m sure she’s been, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa during my 2014 visit.

Sallie and Bill chose #155.  Called “The Box” towards the bottom of Bright Angel Canyon as I was hiking towards Phantom Ranch, at the bottom of Grand Canyon.  This shot from my first rim to rim hike in 2008.

My choice, and first motorhome (the one in the middle).  My partner, to the left, and I had moved that winter of 1999/2000 starting with a Skoolie conversion, then a morphydite camper, and my own RV with him in his own.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including national parks, forests, and wilderness, plus a great place to get lunch.

Diane and Nigel chose #2801.  I always loved when inversion caused clouds to fill the Grand Canyon allowing ridgelines and rim to peek out.

Rita chose #7702.  Where there’s water you can usually find wildlife. These elephants are standing all around a small waterhole in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

Alan chose #5374.  These young Hopi boys are performing the Eagle Dance at the Heritage Days on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jo chose #6938.  These unusual trees seen at Joshua Tree National Park are struggling to survive in the face of climate change.

Jeff chose #915, “the time SDG&E shut off the power for maintenance.”  Won’t ever find electrical power in Wildrose Canyon at Death Valley National Park.

Sherry chose #9501.  Swirling sandstone shapes of The Wave in Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.

Cathy chose #6932.  Forest White sugarbush, one of many colors of Protea seen in south-central South Africa.

Gypsy chose #1177.  A few wildflowers below Brian Head overlook on the Dixie National Forest, Utah.

Susan chose #1963, a panorama.  Morning light shine on the cliffs above camp when I hiked into the Drakensburg Mountains with Jo’s son during my first visit to South Africa in 2010.

Sue chose #9126, 1/26 for her eldest daughter’s birthday and added a nine for a “later photo”.  First is another angle on The Wave.  The lower number, almost in her backyard, the Rogue River in Oregon when I floated it with fellow Rangers in 2007.  What bridge is that Sue?

Sallie and Bill chose #1225.  Dazzos, a favorite place for this ex-Chicagoland area gal to eat lunch whenever I drive through Wikeup, Arizona.  The owner died last year so I hope the business carries on.

My choice from February 1999 when I worked at Eagles Cliff Resort in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest on the south side of Mt St Helens.

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