Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 14 readers including sand and snow, rock and trees, South African wildlife, and Ranger me.

Jennifer chose #8888.  Freyas Castle and the Vishnu Temple as seen from Walhalla overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jeff chose #3301, “the number of your next post.”  Which was the last post.  And there was also a post about hiking to the Palm grove in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.  A place Jeff visits often.

Doris chose #9752.  Sandstone at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah.

TreDeuce chose #1113.  Flowering Brittlebush seen on a hike in the Weaver Mountains near my old stomping grounds in Yarnell, Arizona.

Sue chose #924, “for the day that we plan to drive from Blanding to Newspaper Rock and the Needles.”  Yet another visit to Coral Pink Sand Dunes, one in a three shot panorama.  And a bonus of me at the dunes.

Wanda chose #1254.  My second season 2009 at the North Rim Grand Canyon, the meadows outside the park on the national forest where snow was melting.  Never knew what to expect on that April drive before the park was open.

Diane and Nigel chose #2808.  They are currently on holiday at the shore but have taken holiday at Grand Canyon where this shot was taken of a cloud filled canyon.

Jo chose #2500, “an amount I won in a radio competition this evening! Very exciting.”  I guess.  Congrats to her.  Not quite as exciting was this presunset blast of sunrays in front of the Vallecito Mountains in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California seen 12-30-14.

Cathy chose #2170.  Note the 3 million year old lava flow to the right that stopped the Colorado River as seen from Tuweep overlook Grand Canyon National Park.

Jodee and Bill chose #9955.  This Marsh terrapin was begging for food at the bird hide in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.  Bonus shot because I liked it was my RV window view at the North Rim Grand Canyon taken 7-23-08.

Gypsy asked for a sunset.  With many thousands to choose from I tried for the oldest though there are many missing years.  Just so happens this shot was taken in the town of Congress where she lives 3-21-06, so let’s see if she can identify from where.  Then I dug deeper and the oldest I could find from 1974, probably an Instamatic camera print later scanned.  A magnificent sunset from where I grew up in Downers Grove, Illinois.  A actually climbed out my bedroom window, walked carefully across the decorative balcony, and maneuvered onto the garage roof including over the peak and sat watching this show for what seemed like hours.

Rita chose #0196.  Probably bought during the first thrift store run of fall 2014 with Berta.  I collect sterling silver jewelry and call it my retirement, but not sure that means I’m ready to part with any of it yet.

Alan chose #8226.  This pair appeared amorous at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #555.  This dry wash is the Wirepass Trail to Buckskin Gulch slot canyon on the Utah/Arizona border.

While searching for sunsets I came upon this shot of Ranger me first season at the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park from 7-23-08.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including lots of Southwest rock, and this is my 3300th post, that’s a whole lot of words and pictures.

Sherry chose #9121, “for the day I have to leave Vermont.”  Hope she’s not leaving because it will snow, something I don’t want to see anytime soon.  This was my RV window view over the cemetery while living at Crazy Horse RV Park in Kanab, Utah during the winter of 2015/2016.

Diane and Nigel chose #2008, one of a seven shot panorama.  White Pocket in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, a fairyland of sandstone.  In 2008 I put together the other image as a birthday card to a friend from high school days.  Sadly, he is currently in assisted living while dying of cancer.

Jeff chose #2625, “the street address of Fran’s childhood home, where we are now settled for a couple weeks.”  I doubt this ranch even has a street address and I could settle there for a while, especially if they’d leave the old truck and it runs.  Saw this when driving out of the Toroweap overlook 9-28-10.  How about that raised deck?

Jodee and Bill chose #3511.  The Needles District in Canyonlands National Park, another fairyland landscape.  All of Utah could be a national park, but I don’t think the locals would like it.  Visited way too briefly in September 2015 and really need to return.

Rita chose #3019.  Smokey Bear riding in the 2014 4th of July water parade at the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Cathy chose #1493.  My favorite place to watch sunset on the North Rim Grand Canyon, Cape Royal overlook at the end of their scenic drive.  This from 9-14-09, my second season as a Park Ranger there.

Gypsy asked for #Moon as she’d just watched the last full moon rise.  This may have been similar to her view.  Taken in Congress 2-11-06 of the moon over the Weaver Mountains, Arizona.

Jo chose #8915, “being the commission I paid to the owner of the big house which I manage for holiday accommodation.”  Sorry no commission, but hoping for a translation.  Seen in her home country of South Africa while visiting Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park during March 2014.

Doris chose #557.  Won’t be long before the Quaking Aspen will turn yellow.  In fact I saw a little color Tuesday on Bryce’s scenic drive.  This shot was taken on the North Kaibab Plateau 10-12-11.

Alan and random dot org chose #2884.  A different view from Cape Royal in mid afternoon with clouds dancing around Wotan’s Throne.

Sallie and Bill chose #9999, a very popular number so also a recent photo.  From January 2020, my Darby Well camp view of Black Mountain backdropping lots of Saguaro cactus.

My choice, the bumper rocks from my last camp in the Dixie National Forest of Utah.

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If you ever see an archived photo that you’d like to see in the next Geogypsy calendar please let me know.

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including grand canyon, other hiking destinations, and kindergarten me.

Rita chose #1960.  A delightful morning storm over Grand Canyon from the North Rim Lodge taken 8-28-10.  And because I was alive in 1960, I included six-year old me from kindergarten in Hinsdale, Illinois.

Sue chose #1969, “for the year my youngest child was born.”  Taken three minutes after the above shot at Grand Canyon.  And, this is a 1969 Ford truck I bought with award money from US Fish & Wildlife Service in 1996.

Jo and random dot org chose #2724.  Sometimes conditions are right for clouds to hang low in Grand Canyon.

Diane and Nigel chose #1308, a panorama.  Her birthday was yesterday and I wish to remind her of their visit to Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jodee and Bill chose #531.  They are currently traveling through Montana but I don’t want them to forget what a desert environment looks like.  Though this was taken in northern Arizona, further north than their winter desert home.

Gypsy chose #2001, “for the year of Jeep Betsy, getting me great places for 20 years.”  This place I’m sure she’d happily hike to when the Havasupai people reopen the trail into Havasu canyon and access to many waterfalls, including Lower New Navajo Falls seen here from my 2010 hike with a fellow ranger before our summer season began on the North Rim.

Sherry chose #3948.  The Secretary bird, seen in Kruger National Park South Africa, gets its name from the look of pencils stuck in hair.  This second shot because I wanted to see it processed, a multiple shot panorama of Delicate Arch from a brief 2015 visit to Arches National Park.

Doris chose #273.  The kitchen in an older (70s) and slightly smaller slide-in camper I played in during winters past.

Cathy chose #8821.  A similar view I’m sure she’s seen of fall aspen on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Alan and random chose #9404.  This warm desert scene lies above The Wave in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona.  Soaked my t-shirt in that pool as it was a hot mid-August day.

Sallie and Bill chose #1959.  Another birthday girl also from yesterday.  It’s been a while since any of us tent camped.  But the tent on the right is where I slept after a day hike into the Drakensburg Mountains with Jo’s son John as my guide nine days before my birthday in 2010.

My choice caught the first of August with cell phone as I drove to work.

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

If you ever see an archived photo that you’d like to see in the next Geogypsy calendar please let me know.