Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including Illinois, Oregon, Arizona and South Africa.  Plus seems a reason for coincidence with Berta images as this month marks the third year since her passing.

Doris chose #361.  Not quite the oldest photo as I usually try to choose, but darn close anyway.  And besides this month marks three years since Berta died of brain cancer.  It was a cold December morning when I got a call and Berta whispered, “I have a baby pig in my arms.”  What?

Jo chose #1500, “the time I attend a Zoom meeting today.”  This is from the time I attended my 40th high school reunion in Illinois, and visited my old stomping grounds walking canyons in Starve Rock State Park.

Cathy chose #0482.  Another memory of time spent with Berta this time visiting Bandon in October 2014.  She once lived in Bandon and we were there for an AA convention.

Diane and Nigel chose #2506.  A little history found in my room at the Old Mill Lodge in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.  I spoke to Boy about my search for mountain drives and he suggested the nearby Swartberg Pass Road which I dearly loved.

Jennifer chose #1425.  Being a wildlife lover and photographer I hope she understands about this shot of Baboon scat taken in Kruger National Park, South Africa.  Sure glad you have a great sense of humor Jen.

Rita chose #1099.  From my August 2011 trip of a life-time, rafting on the Colorado River as a National Park employee.

Sherry chose #9820.  Another highlight memory seeing this leopard in Pilanesberg Game Reserve in South Africa.

Lisa chose #328.  In 2009, Berta gave me a bouquet of daffodils for my birthday.  Was such a joy to watch them slowly open over several days.

Alan, a new commenter, chose #718.  I never tire of seeing and photographing the meadows on the North Kaibab National Forest during drives in and out of Grand Canyon National Park over the ten summers I worked at the North Rim.  This is a July 2009 glimpse of the luscious green just outside the park’s entrance station..

Alan and random dot org chose #3735.  A visit to Kidds Beach in South Africa during February 2013.  Been too long since I’ve been to the shore.

Sallie and Bill chose #148. Oh how loved that view, watching wildlife, and listening to Cave Creek burble past camp, container garden with fresh salad every night.  I was a camphostess at Cave Creek campground while working as a Park Ranger at Oregon Caves just two miles apart during the summer of 2007.

Jeff chose #4152, “the number of wildfires CalFire mentioned in their briefing thus far this year.”  Very scary and disturbing.  The Kaibab National Forest, where this one of six in a panorama shot was taken, has closed the forest for recreation to reduce the chances of human caused fires.  Took this shot in July 2014 after leaving Jumpup Point.

Sometimes it’s difficult to pick just one photo from your numbered choices or discover a hidden gem, so I frequently process others.  This #148 brought me back to Ribbon Creek flowing into Bright Angel Canyon during my second rim to rim hike across Grand Canyon in May 2009.

And then labeling photos from March 2020 makes me homesick for the diversity seen in the Sonoran Desert during winter.

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Thanks for the memories.

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by six readers including lots of blue, and little orange rock too.

Diane and Nigel chose #1806.  A Cape Royal view they saw when visiting the North Rim Grand Canyon but not with the low clouds.  I loved to see during monsoon season.

Alan and random dot org chose #5868, one of a five shot panorama.  The Salton Sea is an unusual place, though great for birding and sunsets.

Cathy chose #0617.  Full moon the night of a lunar eclipse seen from Yarnell, Arizona on April 15th, 2014.

Jeff chose #420, from my last week’s joke about 420.  But driving through the tiny tunnels at Zion National Park is not the time for that.  This shot from 9-21-08, when I had to pay extra to get through.

Rita chose #1133.  Sorry, not a shot from Grand Canyon.  Instead the view south of the San Francisco Peaks on the State Route 89 drive from Grand Canyon to Flagstaff.

Jo chose #2606.  The Coyote and Santa Rose Mountains were my New Year’s day view while camping at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in Caifornia in 2015.

My choice from the archives, 11-1-14, while visiting Bandon, Oregon with Berta, a place she once lived, we were gifted with a rainbow at Facerock Beach.

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Apologize if I missed anybody but I am having difficulty getting online, as usual.

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers and in honor of “420” a bit of low clouds and fog that sort of look like smoke, plus a couple of beautiful places in South Africa, and me drinking the bath water.

Doris chose #6288.  During the monsoon month of August it’s common to see the clouds settle into Grand Canyon swirling around the temples.  I called this inversion the dragon’s breath.

Rita chose #7103.  Another foggy view, though not as thick, seen out my RV window across the cemetery while living in Kanab, Utah in 2016.

Alan and random dot org chose #5843.  Another low cloud inversion from August monsoon seen from the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Jo chose #3485.  From Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa in 2013, I believe that’s the year Jo and I met.

Cathy chose #9008.  More low clouds this time at sunset from the North Rim Grand Canyon.  Hope she had some nice sunsets during her recent visit there.

Diane and Nigel got #30 for the degrees Centigrade last week.  That’s 86°F, it’s been hovering around that for over a week at Bryce.  But wouldn’t have been that warm during March 1955 when this was taken in my birth town of Hinsdale, Illinois.

Jeff chose #6921, “for Kg’s (eldest grandgirl) graduation date.”  I’m giving him a Grand Canyon view of Mt Hayden from Point Imperial on the North Rim.  Would make for a great graduation present Grandpa.

TreDeuce chose #1898, “B-date of my much loved and profoundly missed, paternal grandfather.”  He’s been liking the SW desert photos and this shot could fool some.  But it’s actually sandstone cliffs seen in Golden Gate Highlands National Park in South Africa.

Sherry chose #6152.  Another South African location, the suspension bridge trail over the Storms River in Tsitsikamma National Park.

Nothing new from me this week as I’m working on a catchup post with the few photos I’ve taken recently.  Instead I’m reaching back to March 2020 in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, that I’ve just finished labeling.

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