Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including flowers, Grand Canyon, South Africa, and two different Palm Canyons.

Jim and Diana chose #544, “the time of Sunday’s Starlink 21 launch.”  I suspect he means 5:44am, a time I would rather be snuggled into this pile of pillows covered in woven silk, a display at African Silks.

Diane and Nigel chose #1203.  Maybe they know what this flower is seen in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Jo chose #6110.  A popular number for some reason that took me to a year ago, 3-28-20, for the oldest in file.  Globe Mallow grew along the dry wash by my camp near Ajo, Arizona.

Lisa chose #6307.  Back to South Africa in 2014 watching sunset over the Indian Ocean at Tsitsikamma National Park.

Cathy chose #0629.  A fun shot of me and Grand Canyon reflected in a window framed mirror at the Desert View Watchtower on the South Rim.

Sherry chose #330.  Driving south on SR67 to the North Rim Grand Canyon through the meadows in the Kaibab National Forest.

Yogi chose #2284.  He likes some kinds of signs but not all.  Vermilion Cliffs National Monument straddles Arizona and Utah, where this shot was taken.  Also, a special request for the retired gas man, pipeline sign taken a couple days ago.

Rita chose #3807, a two-shot panorama.  While on safari in Kruger National Park I frequently saw sunset, and maybe some wildlife, at Sunset Dam not far from our South African camp.

Sallie and Bill chose #315.  Yup, I frequently hike in a skirt.  And here I am at Ribbon Falls deep in the Grand Canyon during an October rim-to-rim hike with friends in 2009.

Doris chose #317.  The rest of Ribbon Falls that I was looking up at in the previous shot.

Jeff chose #3141, “in tribute of Pi Day.”  He may recognize this view looking down Palm Canyon.  And he might eat pie in a little town between the park and home.

My choice should give you a clue where my current camp is.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including, no surprise Southwest rock features, some camouflaged wildlife, and me as an early Ranger.

Yogi chose #6494.  Not only is the Paul Sauer bridge an icon in South Africa, it crosses the deep and narrow Storms River gorge near Tsitsikamma National Park.

Diane and Nigel chose #503.  She is an amazing photographer of small life, like flowers, birds, and lizards.  Sadly I am not.  Look closely for the well camouflaged Short Horned Lizard not more than 3” long.  Unless they’re moving often go unnoticed.  Saw this creature along the two-track North Rim Lookout Tower trail at Grand Canyon’s northern border.

Sue chose #3421, “for the date of my first COVID shot.”  She’s been ‘horsing around’ [SIC] for a while to get an appointment.  This was my RV window view first season at Bryce Canyon through the forest to the trail-ride’s horse corral.

Jo chose #2000, the time she posted her comment.  This is a view of the Drakensburg Mountains, in her backyard, from the time I backpacked into them guided by her son John.

Jodee and Bill chose #2233.  When I hesitantly moved into a RV park along the railroad tracks I never thought I’d get so many awesome photos of them, especially sunset shots.

Cathy chose #0914.  Looking quiet and cold at the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim before the opening of summer season taken 4-27-14.

Doris chose #9851.  A view of the amphitheater at Cedar Breaks National Monument from Chessmen Ridge overlook.  I was there for the wildflower festival, equally glorious.  BTW, it’s the same rock/hoodoos as Bryce Canyon.

Rita chose #9999, a popular choice over the years.  This distant view of desert, mesas, and snow covered mountains was taken 2-19-19 northwest of Lake Pleasant Regional Park along Cow Creek Road.  Joann and I took a day trip that day and loved it so much went back to camp for my birthday the end of March.

Jim and Diana chose #2158, “the time for Tuesday’s Starlink launch.”  Could this sandstone rock formation at White Pocket look like the cone of a rocket?

Sherry chose #8823.  She is a much better bird photographer than I, though she gets more practice.  Usually birds are too quick and flighty for me.  Got lucky with this well camouflaged Spotted Eagle Owl in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #79.  My first season as a Ranger, the summer of 1992, at Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument.  Here giving a volcano talk at Windy Ridge overlook at the end of Forest Road 99 in the blast zone.

Lisa chose #7777.  This is Navajo Bridge crossing the Colorado River.  I am standing on the upriver now walking bridge.  Look closely in the girders for Condor’s #01 and 30.  A great place to stop along SR87 in Marble Canyon, Arizona.

Jeff chose #4599 for what he just paid for diesel fuel in California.  Yikes!  I paid $3.19/gal in Quartzsite, Arizona today.  His price is comparable to the fuel I bought per liter in South African in 2014, when I traveled to Kruger National Park where I saw this giraffe.

From my last camp just before sunset.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including a lot of firsts, several panoramas, and a variety of canyons.

Jim and Diana chose #2047, “the time of the next Starlink launch on Sunday.”  Ancient sand dunes later lithified into sandstone then carved by wind and water left behind this rock Toadstool launching into the sky seen at White Pocket Vermilion Cliffs National Monument during my first visit 5-28-15.

Diane and Nigel chose #2602, a three-shot panorama.  A sunset view from the Grand Lodge verandah North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  Rangers get paid in sunsets.

Rita chose #2220. Presumably ancient hand and toe holes to climb the 20 foot spillway to a tank, or possible pool of water, in Banshee Canyon seen along the Rings Loop Trail near Hole in the Wall campground Mojave National Preserve, California.  I happily didn’t have to climb them and instead braved the metal rings further into the canyon.

Jodee and Bill chose #3421.  One of the things I love most about camping in beautiful places like the Alabama Hills is waking up to the glory of morning light—occasionally sunrise—where I watched the Eastern Sierras greet the day near Lone Pine, California.

Cathy chose #1026.  Same canyon view as above but under different conditions.  This shot taken 5-16-15, the second day the North Rim was open for the season, kind of freaked out visitors who arrived in shorts and flip-flops.

Sue chose #666.  My first hike in Buckskin Gulch slot canyon revealed the power of water to carve sandstone then leave that little stick behind in a hole located far above my head.

Jo chose #2500.  I love trees, their also sculpted look, and a root wad from a fallen tree reminds me of the skeletal shapes of deciduous trees in winter without their leaves.

Doris chose #312, a two-shot panorama of the Virgin River canyon in Zion National Park, Utah.  My first, and so far only, hike up the Narrows through this water carved canyon 9-2-09.

Sherry chose #227.  From my first rim-to-rim Grand Canyon hike in 2008, I paused along the Bright Angel trail above Indian Garden looking back where I’d hiked two days before from the North Rim.  The trail seen below leads to Plateau Point and I hadn’t hiked it, yet.

Yogi and random dot org chose #6916.  I know he BBQs, maybe not in February or with a seagull in his Oklahoma back yard.  This shot was taken in the campground of Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #327 a three-shot panorama.  When camping at Marble View on the Kaibab National Forest this northern view shows the East Kaibab Monocline where the rock layers dip down far to the right.

Lisa chose #268.  A five-shot panorama taken from the Hopi Valley Trailhead looking SW to NW along Kolob Terrace Road in a lesser traveled area of western Zion National Park, Utah.

Jeff chose #911, “as I give a Shout Out to all First Responders.”  I honor them, everyone, and sadly see them working at all national park sites giving aid.  That would include Lake Powell as seen above from Wahweap Bay and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area overlook.  A four-shot panorama taken 9-10-09.

My choice, pre-sunset over the Chocolate Mountains as seen from my current camp two nights ago.  I love the beauty around me but am struggling with lack of signal.  Seems I do better in the morning, so this is coming out late.

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