Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including South Africa, the Southwest, and and oldie from the Northwest too.

Yogi chose #4989.  Phacelia is seen blooming all over the Southwest during spring.  These flowers were shot along the Palm Canyon trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California 2-17-15.

Rita chose #7211.  Named Skull rock for obvious reasons, this feature is seen near Jumbo Rocks campground in Joshua Tree National Park California.

Diane and Nigel chose #2901.  They met Bill during their visit and would probably agree about his calm nature.  Even when the clutch went out on his truck in the sand dunes and had to be towed out he totally kept his cool.

Sherry chose #4642.  With both of us struggling over RV repairs and trying to stay warm over the winter I think next year we should go to South Africa during their summer/our winter, rent a RV, and go play.  We’d get to see sights like this giraffe in Kruger National Park.

Cathy chose #0415.  Seems like a sign reinforcing the previous photo.  This time at the Pilanesberg Game Reserve not far from Johannesburg, South Africa.  Diane will even vouch for this place.  Who else wants to go and look at wildlife from up in the air?

Doris chose #2255.  Hovenweep is not a large national monument but is significant as an example of past Native American communities in the Southwest.

Sallie and Bill chose #7260.  The Groot Swartberg was just one of many famous mountain passes I drove in South Africa where clouds flowing over like this are called “Table cloth clouds”.

Jeff chose #129 for the day it finally rained.  Because of rain, this was the third attempt at climbing Mt St Helens back during the summer of 1992 when I worked at the volcanic monument.  This view from the top of the Lewis River Valley and Swift Reservoir.

Sue chose #1977, the summer she spent in Northern Idaho.  I have 0 photos from that year, so instead she gets the Sasha (Bill’s dog) view at the iconic White Pocket in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument from my first visit 5-28-15.

My current view (an eight-shot panorama) at the Kofa NWR where the next post will come from with some more interesting clouds.

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Yet another glitch occurred on the blog prompting me to try for another fix.  And I think it worked.  At least from my end.  So please let me know.  Thanks for your forever patience from this serious procrastinator.

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by eight readers including astronomical events, Toroweap, and drive-by views along the various SR89 highways of the Southwest.

Cathy chose #0016.  This is towards the beginning of the 2012 annular eclipse that I shot at Grand Canyon.  You should really check out the post if you didn’t see the rest of the story.

Diane and Nigel chose #2201.  Directly across from the Tuweap overlook this side canyon on the south side of Grand Canyon looks like a giant heart to me.

Jodee and Bill chose #347, a panorama.  While hiking the Cliff Spring trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon there is a lot of erosion created shallow caverns and this is looking up at the ceiling edge.

Lisa chose #1315.  I take a lot of photos while driving—no lectures please—and I’ve driven Arizona SR89 many times.  This would be part of the Painted Desert on the Navajo Reservation north of Flagstaff.

Jim and Diana chose #723, “the number of words in Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’, which just blew us away.  Loved that she finished it with her version of the motto of our blog ‘Don’t just see it…BE it.’  Truly an inspiration I cannot elaborate on.  So I’ll share another drive-by along Arizona SR89 further north than previous of Echo Cliffs.

Rita chose #2067.  Another shot taken at Tuweep/Toroweap looking up at the moon from behind camp.

Sallie and Bill chose #940.  Yet another SR89 but this time driving east of Page and looking to the Grand Staircase Escalante, Utah.

Sherry chose #4664.  Fireweed at the North Rim Grand Canyon, not seen frequently there.  I like it as one of the first wildflowers I learned and saw a lot of as a newbie Ranger at Mt St Helens, it was everywhere as a disturbed area flower.

My choice from the Kofa NWR is from the end of last month with the same view I’m enjoying today with even more clouds.  Oops, a little late this week.  By the time I got moved yesterday the focus was trying to shoot the full Wolf moon with mostly cloud cover and then I ran out of power, in more ways than one.  My computer is not healing and the mouse is sick too.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by eight readers including Grand Canyon, dino tracks, sparkly me, and my old store front in Tonasket, Washington.

Rita chose #3981.  While out on self-drive safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa eyes are constantly sweeping back and forth across the land.  Suddenly, around a corner, a wildlife encounter can happen at any time.  Then it’s time to sit, wait and enjoy as they will eventually go into the bush looking for food.

Diane and Nigel chose #1501.  A rather grainy sunset with an old P&S from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park taken 9-14-09.  I often worked at that location and would change out of uniform at the end of day and stay to photograph sunset.

Doris chose #439.  I’ve collected (mostly vintage) sequin clothes for years yet rarely wear them.  Berta took this shot on Halloween 2008 in a parking lot in Prescott, Arizona.  I wore almost the same with more layers for the colder temperature on Halloween 2020 at a Bryce Canyon gathering (with distancing).

Sallie and Bill chose #240 for the time.  This shot of Cliff Spring at the end of a short trail was the first time I hiked it my first season at the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park in 2008.

Cathy chose #281.  While exploring the surrounding area from Grand Canyon in 2008 I visited Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Arizona.  This trace fossil was created by a dinosaur walking on wet sand, like us walking on the beach.  But this was dunes and later sand filled the track then over time the dunes lithified into sandstone.  There’s a great dino visitor center not far west from there in Big Water, Utah along SR89.

Yogi chose #6281.  Monsoon at Grand Canyon from Cape Royal overlook south east when fog shrouded Vishnu Temple.  Taken 8-13-14.

Sherry chose #64.  This throwback scanned print from 1984 evokes so many memories.  Parked outside, the van my ex and two step-kids moved to Tonasket, Washington in 1981 taken from inside my second store front for “Gail’s Crafts and Collectibles”.  I had bought the local yarn shop and then learned to knit and crochet adding to my craft of stained glass.  I also learned to paint windows.  This display for a count the leprechaun contest around St Patrick’s Day.

Jeff chose #2014, “the year we hiked Zion’s Narrows.”  This sunset shot over the Vallecito Mountains taken 12-24-14 at another one of his favorite public lands, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.  While boondocking here I learned the meaning of Christmas is to be kind and giving.

I recently returned to the Plomosa Mountains north of Quartzsite, AZ.

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Regarding the comment problem:  I notice those without a website URL seem to show up so maybe try to leave that out in the comment box.  Just a thought.