Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including several views of Grand Canyon and Death Valley national parks, flower, lizard, and a younger me.

Jennifer chose #1956.  I don’t see many sunrises, but an early morning schedule at the North Rim Grand Canyon brought me to the Lodge verandah for this moody sky during late August 2010.

Cathy chose #9121.  More to see than waterfalls in this South African national Park with colorful Augrabies flat lizards running all over the boulders.

Lisa chose #1213.  A closeup of an Iris, the first spring flowers seen in Yarnell, Arizona.

Jeff chose #1947, the year Tia Juana Tilly’s opened, located across from his Tijuana dentist.  This shot of the Colorado River upsstream taken the first time I visited Toroweap in the year 2010.

Alan chose #1630.  Marble View, one of my favorite places to camp on the Kaibab National Forest and watch monsoon storms over eastern Grand Canyon.

Diane and Nigel chose #406.  From my first season as a Park Ranger at Grand Canyon in 2008.  I often hike in the comfort of a skirt as seen here at the Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim.

Doris chose #1016.  After a full day exploring Death Valley, see below, the evening light shone over the mountains on the return to camp from Emigrant Canyon in October 2009.

Rita chose #1010.  A fellow Ranger and I explored Death Valley including Augereberry Camp at the Eureka Mine.

Sherry chose #9999.  Look closely for the Heron hiding in the grasses of a surprise wetland near Tecopa, California on the way to Death Valley, different trip than above.

Sue chose #1111, opposite of Sherry’s choice above seen at almost sea level.  This view from the 11,000 foot Brian Head overlooking Cedar Breaks National Monument and the Dixie National Forest beyond, Utah.

Jo chose #1609.  This could almost be a view from her South African home near the Drakensberg Mountains where I hiked with her son in 2010.  Taken from Monks Cowl camp only days before that hike.

My choice, an old shot from 2015 looking north at the geologic Grand Staircase from LeFevre overlook.  I was searching for an image to share at my Yovimpa Point geology talk.  The top step, called the Pink Cliffs, is Bryce Canyon National Park.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including several foggy Grand Canyon views, a tall tower, mountains and canyons.

Cathy chose #9362.  A prickly bouquet of Beavertail cactus in Congress, Arizona from 4-14-15.

Jo chose #2805, the day she received a Weigh-Less award.  In this shot I was awarded a view through the low foggy clouds of the Colorado River curving around the Unkar Delta in the Grand Canyon seen from the North Rim 6-10-15.

Rita chose #4173.  My dinning view of sunset at the Riviera Hartenbos along the Garden Route in South Africa 3-24-10.

Alan chose #2328.  The 3000 foot view almost straight down to the Colorado River from Toroweap overlook on the North Rim of Grand Canyon during my first visit 9-27-10.

Jeff chose #528, “our 38th wedding anniversary.”  Happy belated looking up at Grand Canyon’s North Rim Lookout Tower where presumably Edward Abbey hung out in the 60s.  Of course I climbed it, back in 2009.

Diane and Nigel got #2905, because they always choose the date but forgot last week.    This very unusual phenomenon called a Glory was seen on a foggy day from Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Sue chose #1997, “when I hiked Little Wildhorse with a good friend.”  In 2010 I hiked in the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa with a good blogger friend’s son.

Doris chose #172, “the miles I drove from my house to the Catskills last week.”  A place I’ve only seen pictures of.  The same could be said of the bottom of Grand Canyon until I hiked rim to rim the first time in 2008.  This rather out of whack panorama was taken on the North Kaibab trail in The Box along Bright Angel Creek before reaching Phantom Ranch.

Sherry chose #6222.  A fog shrouded view of Wotans Throne from Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon on 8-13-14.

My choice, a lazy sunset from the RV door.  That’s what happens at the end of a 40-hour work week.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including real, rock, and metal animals, plus narrow canyons, and cloudy South African mountains.

Diane and Nigel chose #2105.  I had to hunt just a bit for this large rock snake in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California on Christmas day, 2014.

Yogi chose #2026, a two shot panorama.  A summer hike in the South African Drakensberg Mountains brought heavy rain but it was warm enough to be comfortable as long we weren’t hit by lightning.

Lisa chose #1952.  A reverse sunset looking upstream at Tuweep on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Jo and random dot org chose #4235.  A Blue Wildebeest seen in Kruger National Park South Africa.

Jennifer chose #4100.  Seen earlier on the same day as above, not uncommon to catch lions sleeping on the warm pavement in the morning.

Rita chose #1198.  This huge ant hill, about two feet across, in Berta’s driveway in Yarnell, Arizona intrigued me forever.  It even came back after the 2012 fire.  I love to watch ants.  Am I crazy for that?

Sue chose #5921, “for the date of my second COVID shot.”  Being she just visited “Crack in the Ground” in Oregon she might appreciate another crack called Bull Valley Gorge taken along the Skutumpah Road in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Jeff chose 1140, “the time Fran arrives back from Ohio.”  And this shot is the time I put my life in somebody’s driving hands to ride in a dry wash to Antelope Canyon and tour the slot there.

Cathy chose #3406.  A Tapir metal sculpture by Ricardo Breceda at Galleta Meadows in Borrego Springs, California, not far from the first shot of the rock snake, and only one of many sculptures.

Jodee and Bill chose #637.  A delightful hike into Buckskin Gulch slot canyon in southern Utah.  My favorite this week.

Sherry chose 8576.  A view from the South Rim’s Moran Point at Grand Canyon National Park where I spent my birthday in 2015 with a friend.  Not the first time I spent there for a birthday.

Sallie and Bill chose #1230.  From last year, a look across Bryce Canyon’s main amphitheater over the hoodoos towards the high Inspiration Point overlook.

My choice, taken with the new phone, from the town of Panguitch about 30 minutes from Bryce where I went for my second Moderna COVID shot last Monday.

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