Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by three readers including flowers, Grand Canyon, and pets.

Gypsy chose #3118, “for a full moon hike day and year.”  I do love the full moon and don’t have a plan for September, yet.  I did get to watch the full moon rise many times at Grand Canyon but not where this cloudy shot was taken from the Grand Lodge.

Diane and Nigel chose #1908.  Some small, unidentified, pink flowers in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa.

Sherry chose #9350.  Beavertail cactus buds and flower with spider taken in Congress, Arizona.

Most recent pets. It’s International Dog Day, don’t tell Sierra.  During the summer of 1997 I began selling at a fleamarket in Carson, Washington.  I also got involved with a man and figured I needed a dog, puppy Carson came into my life.  He outlasted the man and traveled with me for 11 years.  I didn’t figure on another pet after that.  Yet when my best friend died of cancer, her cat owned me.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including Southwest red rock, South African wildlife, and friends.

Rita chose #9207, one of two in a panorama.  These ancient dunes turned to stone tell a story over time of changing wind directions that leave behind the lines called bedding planes.  The Wave, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona/Utah border.

Jo chose #1900, the time of late guests arrival.  This, a stream in her nearby Drakensberg Mountains, seen while hiking with her son during my 2010 visit to South Africa.

Sherry chose #8987.  That’s me on the hike to the above Wave.  Then entire landscape is amazing.

Alan and random dot org chose #381.  Me on a another hike.  In November 2010 headed down the South Kaibab Trail to Phantom Ranch, the bottom of Grand Canyon.  Plus that’s the view I was enjoying along the way.

Gypsy chose #3116.  Grand Canyon from the North Rim Lodge.  I believe you can see the trail I was on above, just right of center.

Sallie and Bill chose #7812.  A herd of Buffalo at a waterhole in Addo Elephant National Park.  Not the best shot, but hopefully you can see our Bison, called buffalo, look nothing like these true Buffalo.  Happy Birthday Sallie!

Cathy chose #0004.  While on safari I saw more sunrises than normal for me.  Best time to see wildlife.  This shot from Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Jodee and Bill chose #2516.  A stormy last light and the Vallecito Mountains in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Liberal Warrior chose #1982.  A few days earlier than the above shot, last light on the Santa Rosa Mountains, Anza-Borrego.

Diane and Nigel chose #1308.  Today is Diane’s birthday so her greeting comes from Sasha, a dog she met while visiting the Southwest.  I only wish the two of them could have made it to White Pocket with Sasha.

Barb chose #1717.  A morning view of Grand Canyon from the Transept Trail on the North Rim.

Jennifer chose #0816.  My RV view of Transept Canyon the end of April, 2014.  Yes, that’s spring, and before the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park opens May 15th.

Jeff chose #7772, “what we spent today to fill the RV freezer with Marion’s pizza.”  It must be good and I hope to hear more about those pizzas.  In Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, what’s good is watching wildlife by a waterhole.  In fact these elephants were seen earlier on the same day at the same waterhole as the above pictured Buffalo.

My choices in celebration of Diane’s birthday today, when Nigel and her visited me at Grand Canyon June 2016.  We also went to Lee’s Ferry along the Colorado River.  So glad I met you both.  Happy Birthday my friend!

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I love meeting people in real time, and also online.  That’s why I’m organizing a meetup.  I’m really leaning towards early October on the North Kaibab National Forest, not too far from Grand Canyon.

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including diversity in South Africa, human and nature’s art, Mt St Helens and area mountains.

Jo chose #2006. “I won this in ZAR [South African Rands/$] on the Lotto – aiming for the US Jackpot next!”  I hope she wins and visits the US to claim it.  Sadly, no jackpot for me when visiting her backyard where I saw this colorful grasshopper while hiking with her son in the Drakensberg Mountains.     (BTW Jo, many here want to know why you can watch YouTube so remotely in ZA while they can’t in say France or North Carolina.)

Jennifer chose #4222.  A South African drive under stormy skies on the way to Hermanus along the Indian Ocean where I spent my birthday, March 2010.

Rita chose #4023.  The day before the above South African drive I was underground exploring Cango Cave.

Barb chose #3400.  Metal sculpture of a Tapir by Ricardo Breceda and displayed at Galleta Meadows in Borrego Springs, California.

Sherry chose #5879, “for the sad number of steps I walked today.”  I doubt this familiar to her performer has to count steps.  Hopi hoop dancer Derek was a regular for many years at the North Rim Grand Canyon’s annual Heritage Days.  Held in August, but not for the two COVID years, I didn’t see his name on the agenda for 2022.

Gypsy chose #1022. “Back to the Future date (2015) We’re traveling time all the time…but what were you doing? Near date, I had 2nd grandkid, Phx valley had an earthquake and comet had Rosetta land!”  Me, I was watching lions at Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Diane and Nigel chose #208.  They might remember the “fence stories” from 2008.  Berta and I spent a lot of time on this project and an overnight storm blew it down.

Alan chose #8158.  The beauty of Autumn Aspen’s gold against the every greens as seen in the Kaibab National Forest, northern Arizona.  It’s this kind of luscious colors that makes an early October meetup in this area absolutely perfect.  Are we there yet?

Liberal Warrior chose #1987, “my son’s birth year who is finally getting married tomorrow.”  I was about his current age back then and already married.  Took art classes in Wenatchee, WA but never did master paint.  Dang watercolors always turn to mud.

Jeff chose #3486, “the number of miles from San Diego we’ve traveled to reach our turnaround point.”  He’ll eventually return to this serpent (note his profile pic).  Another one by Ricardo Breceda.

Sallie and Bill chose #819.  Made by worms much smaller than the previous pic.  These are tracks left behind by worms or bugs under tree bark.  Think it would make an interesting rubbing with paper and pencil.  Saw this along the Widforss Trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Cathy chose #1793.  Back to South Africa, the Drakensberg Mountains in Jo’s neighborhood, and the same hike.

Mt St Helens south flank

Spirit Lake

Mt Rainer

Mt Adams

My choices from August 1998, was that really 24 years ago.  I was working at a resort south of Mt St Helens and went for a ride to my old stomping grounds and where I started my career as a Ranger.

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