Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including the North Kaibab Plateau, Grand Canyon, birds and other wildlife.

Rita chose #731.  Visitors are happily surprised to see “buffalo” when driving past meadows to the North Rim of Grand Canyon.  They are actually an intentional bison/cattle hybrid descending from the early 1900s.  They are prolific and destroying habits for the native species.

Lisa gets #27 for the number of words in her last comment.  A 1974 print later scanned from canoeing above a beaver dam somewhere in the Upper Peninsula Michigan.

Sue chose #2021 from looking at my calendar.  Though a brilliant sunset not a calendar worthy shot taken along the Colorado River near Ehrenberg, Arizona February 2020.

Diane and Nigel chose #1012, one of two in a panorama.  A stormy view from Point Imperial overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Alan and random dot org chose 1009.  A good place to spot lion in the morning while on safari, the warm roadway.  Kruger National Park South Africa, first visit in 2010.

Cathy chose #6087.  Nice view camping on BLM just outside of Joshua Tree National Park.

Gypsy chose #1234, “One step at a time.”  Which is what you’d want to do around one of these crocodiles in the wilds on safari.  This skull was on display at the Elephant Museum in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Jodee and Bill chose #4021.  This sunset over Grand Canyon from the most remote place I ever drove to, Jumpup Point.

Doris chose #2063.  Five Turkey Vultures sharing a tree on the Kaibab National Forest in northern Arizona.  They are social animals and watch out for each other.  Or, there was a carcass nearby.

Jo chose #2548.  A view up canyon from Toroweap campground.

Sallie and Bill chose #7453.  September colors starting to change the Aspen in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona.

Sherry chose #10.  During 1990 I went to school at Western Washington University and spent some of my outdoor time at Padilla Bay where occasionally I’d see a Bald Eagle.

Jeff chose #1222, “the James Webb Telescope is to launch that day.”  Ravens launch every day.  (Did you see how I did that?)  Seriously, at Bryce Canyon there seems to be an over familiar pair of Ravens at every overlook.  This one I saw at the Swamp Canyon parking lot during a 2010 visit.  But it might have still been there while I worked at Bryce many years later.

Tis the season.  A 1969 version of tree decorating in my parents livingroom.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including diversity at Grand Canyon, a wedding couple, and boats.

Cathy chose #7490.  The campsite at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, is a short walk to an underground bird-hide and fence where many animals came in to the water-hole including these Zebra.

Gypsy chose #1203.  A very different campsite view than above, flowers in a forest at Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.

Alan and random dot org chose #638.  Chubby Rock Squirrel perhaps not so randomly choosing a White Fir to snack in along the Bright Angel Point Trail North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Diane and Nigel chose #312.  Ribbon Falls as seen towards the bottom of Grand Canyon not far off the North Kaibab trail as seen on my third rim-to-rim hike across the canyon.

Sherry chose #5.  My parents, Ray and June on their wedding day 1-3-1947.

Sue chose #1988, “the first year I saw cryptobiotic crust in the wild in Utah.”  (You had to be there, or read last week’s Foto Friday Fun.)  This shot is from May 1988, husband and step-son sailing our new boat, 22’ Tanzer, on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington.  (More of this story at the end.)

Jo chose #2911.  Clouds lifting from Grand Canyon can be like the clouds we carry in our hearts.  When they rise, so do we.

Sallie and Bill chose #208.  Crooked trails, like the Devils corkscrew along the Bright Angel trail, can lead us up and eventually out of Grand Canyon.  Though when I took this panorama photo on 5-5-08, my first rim-to-rim, I wasn’t so sure I’d make it.

Jeff chose #2112, “for the number of ounces in the 6 kilos of shrimp we returned with.”  Nice haul from Mexico.  You wouldn’t catch shrimp in Crane Lake on the North Kaibab National Forest seen along the Hwy67 drive to the North Rim Grand Canyon.

My choices this week also from 1988 and feeding off Sue’s photo of the sailboat.  Some of the last of my stained glass work were gifts.  The first shot to the person we bought our sailboat from and they gave us free berth on Lake Union for a summer and we lived onboard.  And the other to the owner of the 1940s tug boat (on left) leading in the tug boat races at Harbor Days in Olympia WA.  He turned his tugboat into a Bunk and Breakfast on Lake Union.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including diverse skies because I am a nepholographer, roads because I’m also a “street” photographer, my Mom in the 1940s, and a wee bit more.

Jim and Diana chose #2525, “which is not only a one-hit wonder by Zager and Evans, but is also the year the Lions will finally win a Super Bowl.”  I didn’t know lions ate out of bowls, but that’s later in this post.  The oldest shot with their number from 2010 is a sign posted on the compost outhouse at Toroweap campground about the fragile cryptobiotic soil crust that is full of life.  So I decided to give them another photo of a sunset through the storm clouds taken through a dirty camper window at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.

Cathy chose #3576.  From the same visit to Anza-Borrego as above, this time a sunrise.

Rita chose #206.  Perfect for an archaeologist, although this piece is not an artifact, yet.  Created at the campfire program I presented at the North Rim Grand Canyon about clay coming to the ancient people.  The young visitor said “it’s a pot with berries”.

TreDeuce chose #6105.  A narrow backroad in Grand Staircase Escalante, the kind I love to go on and am happy when someone has a vehicle to do it.

Diane and Nigel chose #2611.  A foggy day at Grand Canyon.

Alan chose #4959.  If you get out early on safari it is common to see lions just waking on the warm pavement in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Sherry chose #4.  My Mom’s high school graduation sometime in the 1940s.

Jo chose #2711.  Spotted this camo painted motorhome at the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Sallie and Bill chose #1221, “the official first day of winter” that will soon be upon us.  I will be further south, and hopefully warmer, than standing on Navajo Bridge in northern Arizona where this shadow shot was taken 9-10-09.

My choices from 2005 when I sold at the Wickenburg Gem Show held the weekend after Thanksgiving.  The second shot, lower right, is the metate I posted about in the last post.

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