Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including the contrasts of snow and desert.

Sue chose #9149.  At the base, about 90°, of the actual Wave there is frequently a pool of water that offers nice reflections but hikers are asked to stay out of the water to protect aquatic life.  I saw tadpoles with bodies the size of quarters.  Also keeps residues out of the water from things like sunscreen.

Alan and Random dot org chose #5788.  The density and diversity of the Sonoran vegetation seems to increase at the southern Arizona border with Mexico.  This is nearby at a favorite boondock in the Ajo area.

Gypsy chose #4214, “time spent in the deep south after Hurricane Katrina.”  My mind sees bleakness after that storm, as many see a bleak desert.  This particular area near the Arizona/California southern border lacks the dense growth of the desert seen above.  Nice place for big views, rockhounding, and not far from Yuma.

Diane and Nigel chose #3112.  Sunset over the snowy Sierra Mts as seen from the warmer Alabama Hills below.  This was taken in March 2017 and there is already way more snow pack this year, which is awesome.

TreDeuce chose #1357.  The second day after opening for the 2014 season at the North Rim Grand Canyon and I was on the Lodge verandah.  Rangers get paid in sunsets.

Cathy chose #5891.  She might recognize this view, or similar, of the cemetery in Kanab, Utah seen through my RV window while snowing.  Taken 11-28-15 when I wintered at Crazy Horse RV Park (previous owners).

Jeff chose #167, for the predicted year end percentage of water content in the Sierra Mts snowpack.  So good to see.  Also good to see Wizard Island through a smoky haze at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon during nearby fires in mid-September 2007.  I was working at Oregon Caves National Monument and took a road trip.

Wanda chose #3789.  This lovely grove ended my Mt Palm Springs walk in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.

Doris chose #1110.  Oh no, back to snow, the end of April 2010 the meadows wore white along the SR67 drive through the Kaibab National Forest, and the yet unopened North Rim Grand Canyon.

Sherry chose #1222.  OK, an elephant foot might seem weird, however, visiting and learning at the Elephant Museum in Kruger National Park South Africa was not weird, it was fascinating.  Besides I know Sherry takes pics of signs and displays.  Do you know that elephants walk on their toes, that’s why they are often depicted as ballerinas.

Melissa chose #1010, for the stripes and spots from last weeks Zebras and Giraffes.  Her choice is one of three in a panorama of Havasu Falls on the Havasupai reservation.  Calcium rich water deposits travertine creating rim edged pools in the blue water and drip-like formations on the canyon walls.

My choice from 30 years ago, January 1992, when I was a student at WWU (Western Washington University), Bellingham.  One of my nature getaways was as far as I could drive without getting stuck in snow for views of Mt Baker, northern most USA peak in the western Cascade Range.

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 week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including deserts, South African wildlife, and where I am for the last post of 2021.

Jo chose #8090, a panorama.  An animal she is familiar with and my favorite seen at Addo Elephant National Park.

Cathy chose #8888.  Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park is appropriately named.  Only one hour from Las Vegas, go if you can.

Doris chose #4011.  While on safari in Kruger National Park I especially enjoy seeing stripes and dots more than one species together.

Jodee and Bill chose #1149.  Me taking photos at Bryce Canyon National Park in 2007, twelve years before I worked there.

Gypsy chose #2009.  During a summer visit to Zion National Park I caught the last light on canyon walls.

Jeff chose #2022 for our next year on this Earth.  Looking at the Colorado River upstream from Toroweap overlook Grand Canyon National Park at sunset I saw the colors of Earth’s shadow.

Jennifer gets #22 for the number of words in her last comment.  Twelve years after the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens growth was still sparse near the volcano as can be seen from the scientist lead “Crater Walk” I joined during my summer of 1992 season.

Alan and random dot org chose #4261.  Freyas Castle points above the distant Colorado River (center) seen from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Sallie and Bill chose #1122.  The spiny Prickly Pear Cactus produces brilliant flowers in Spring seen at Lee’s Ferry.

Diane and Nigel chose #2612.  A neighborhood chicken passing through an empty campsite when I lived at Crazy Horse RV Park in Kanab, Utah.

Sue chose #1946, “when I was about 7 months old.”  At seven months I might still have been curling up sort of like this 1”, “rolly-polly” worm-like insect (she’s probably seen them playing the soil all her life) that I saw on my hike in the Drakensburg Mountains—and other places—in South Africa.

I moved camp yesterday and this is from the first afternoon at my new camp—not such a new location or sight.  Where am I?

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?

Happy Next Year!

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including the Colorado River Grand Canyon, wildlife large and small, and little ole me.

Rita chose #899.  The last morning along the Colorado River after five days of rafting.  Woke up on the beach at Diamond Creek.

Cathy chose #0440.  A rather misty morning watching the hot air balloon at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Jo chose #2412.  A late light shot looking upstream on the Colorado River from Toroweap.

Alan and random dot org chose #1056.  Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley National Park, California.

Diane and Nigel chose #1712.  The Vermilion Cliffs parallels SR89A.  We saw this view traveling to Lee’s Ferry from the North Rim and back when they visited.

Gypsy chose #1313.  A look down to the junction of Transcept Canyon to the right and Bright Angel canyon to the top taken from the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park taken the end of April 2009, before the park was open.

Jeff chose #1225.  Another look down, about 3000 feet down, at rafts on the Colorado River from Toroweap, Grand Canyon National Park.

Sallie and Bill chose #1222, “my oldest granddaughter’s birthday” now a mother of four.  A happy birthday view with a lone Mule Deer too, from my RV window living on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jodee and Bill chose #9913.  This baby Water Monitor was about 8” long, seen in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Sherry chose #21.  Me at seven months old with my brother at seven years old taken October 1954.

My choice, Christmas eve dinner 2014 in the camper, tamales bought at the Christmas Circle Market in Borrego Springs, California.

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

No corresponding post links today as I am just hoping for enough signal to get this post out at all.

Merry Christmas