Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including rock and slot canyons, full moon, family and me.

Rita chose #1107.  Visited Death Valley National Park for the February 2016 Super Bloom.  No flowers in sight looking way down on the Badwater Basin from Dante’s View.

Cathy chose #0058.  Just a crescent of sun shows while exiting the annular eclipse seen  5-20-12 from the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Diane and Nigel chose #17.  Ever the funny man, my Dad, Mom, and Aunt Kay (Dad’s sister) on the beach at San Padre Island during a visit to Texas in March 2005.

Jo chose #13, “my lucky number.”  From American folklore at the Trees of Mystery in California, presumably life size Paul Bunyon and Babe the Blue Ox, visited in June 2002.  Fence and light poles are normal size.

Gypsy chose #1210, “for the date my Golden Doodle Sandy May came to be with me again.”  She is such a wonderful smart dog who would know to stay out of the cactus seen on the flanks of the Weaver Mountains not far from where they live in Arizona.

Jeff chose #1810, “for the first time ever two teen gals played for the US Open final. The 18 year old from the UK beat the 19 year old from Canada.  It was close.”  It was also close walls of rock when hiking in parts of a slot canyon along Willis Creek.

Jennifer gets #0006.  Arriving to work on the North Rim Grand Canyon 4-26-15 provided a morning view of much white.

Wanda chose #24.  A seven month old me.

Doris chose #758.  Although not taken the first time I visited, I still remember my disbelief seeing meadows and forest along the drive into the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park across the Kaibab National Forest of northern Arizona.

Sallie and Bill chose #927.  Another Utah slot canyon, Wire Pass on the way to Buckskin Gulch hiked 10-22-11.

My choices from September’s full moon are considerations for the September 2022 calendar.  Which one do you prefer?

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including history, hikes, and a request for critters that brought out many species mostly from South Africa.

Cathy chose #0011.  I felt fortunate to see and photography most of the May 2012 partial annular eclipse, this is an entry shot, at the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Lisa chose #1005.  In 2010, my first visit to South Africa and first sighting of lions on safari at Kruger National Park.

Doris chose #7174.  Look closely for the chicks following Mom Ostrich through the brush at Karoo National Park, South Africa.

Diane and Nigel chose #109.  This painting on the wall at the Mesa Verde National Park museum provides an artists rendition of life in the Cliff Palace dwelling of the Ancestral Puebloans.

Wanda chose #7880.  Warthogs at Addo Elephant National Park during a return visit in 2014.  My first visit I saw so many warthogs I thought the park should be renamed.

Rita chose #9011. The hike to the Wave is not along a designated trail, instead it’s directional to landmarks.  Like that shadowed crack in the rocky distance.

Jeff chose #911, “lest we forget.”  There is so much of history we should not forget, some more important than others perhaps.  This historic charcoal kiln in Death Valley National Park is part of the west’s history.

Sherry chose #9721.  Being an long-time RV traveler I’m not sure this set up would work for her any better than me.  I like glamping in a little more style.  Although this is a stylish set up up.  Seen at the Yarnell Car Show in 2015.

Gypsy asked for a critter photo after seeing her first this summer scorpion.  The oldest critter photo I found is my childhood dog Adolph with Mom on New Years Eve 1969 in Downers Grove, Illinois.  He looks as drunk as my Mom probably was.  Then I found a scorpion shot taken in Kruger National Park South Africa that looks very different to our Arizona Barks, but could still put a wampum on you.

Sallie and Bill chose #0514.  Two hippos swimming towards each other seen at Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Jo chose #9082.  Another landmark look getting closer to the Wave.  Do you see where?

Alan chose #174.  My first rim to rim hike across Grand Canyon in 2008.  I’d been told to get through The Box in Bright Ange Canyon before the heat of the day.  Thank goodness this was early May because I had to dawdle along the way.

My choices from your numbers.  First #0514 watching the moon and reverse sunset from the beach in Bandon, Oregon the end of October 2014, the last time I’ve been to the ocean.  And second #7880 because I wanted to see it processed, brilliant Paintbrush flowers at Marble View overlook in the North Kaibab National Forest, Arizona.  And the last from 2017, Autumn gold Aspen on the Kaibab National Forest.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including canyons, plants, rivers, and a partial eclipse.

Cathy chose #0532.  During training before the 2015 season began at the North Rim Grand Canyon staff went to the South Rim and I saw this view of marble Canyon.

Doris chose #693.  My first visit to a slot canyon in May 2009 blew me away as I entered Wire Pass on the the way to Buckskin Gulch Canyon, Utah.

Lisa chose #6935.  The blooms on this Forest White Sugarbush were at least 4” across.  Just one of many colors of Protea I saw traveling in South Africa.

Wanda chose #8630.  Another South Rim view of Grand Canyon from Desert View Watchtower when celebrating my birthday with a friend.  Would have loved that Raven’s view soaring over the Colorado River.

Jodee and Bill chose #1944.  Visiting Zion National Park with Pat, we walked along the Virgin River.

Gypsy chose #69, “ a great year for music to me.”  1984 was a great year for me and my arts and crafts store.  Not like I made money at it, but sure was fun to work on my stained-glass craft, knit, crochet, help sell other people’s creations, and paint the storefront window for special occasions like this for our Founder’s Day Rodeo and parade in Tonasket, Washington.

Diane and Nigel chose #309.  I saw these cocoons in the Quaking Aspen my first season working at the North Rim Grand Canyon in June 2008.  Turns out they are full of Western Tent Caterpillars that turn to moths.

Jo chose #7275, “courtesy of random dot org.”  My January 2016 winter window view while staying at Crazy Horse RV Park in Kanab, Utah prompted me to plan for a warmer climate in southern Arizona.

Sue got #0090 from her last comment about visiting the Coral Pink Sand Dunes in the 90s when it was a quiet place.  It was almost eerily quiet during the Partial Annular Eclipse I watched from the North Rim Grand Canyon on 5-20-12.

Alan chose #6093.  These sweet little mushrooms caught my eye while walking the Suspension Bridge trail in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.

Rita chose #777.  A Grand Canyon perspective from rafting on the Colorado River approaching Lava Falls Rapid.

Sallie and Bill chose #0001.  Look closely for the Heron in this Tecopa, California wetland located near to Death Valley National Park.

My choice from Doris’ number 693 because I wanted to process it.  I love clouds and storms so monsoon season during July 2009 afforded many opportunities for awesome skies.  This storm cell moved north behind Sky Island over the Grand Canyon as seen from Walhalla Overlook on the North Rim’s Cape Royal Road.

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