Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including plenty of Southwest rock, a river in Oregon, African rhinos, and my Senior High School photo. (OMG I was young!)

Rita chose #9218.  Quaking Aspen and the Grand Canyon are not an easy combination to find as the rim of the canyon isn’t quite the right environment.  I hunted for several seasons hoping to catch that fall color against the warmth of the canyon layers.

Diane and Nigel chose #101.  My Senior year class photo from 1971, where it all started when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up.  “A gypsy”, and the rest is herstory.

Jennifer chose #2021.  My first visit to White Pocket in 2015, I think you need a permit now.  Ancient sand dunes lithified then eroded into outlandish shapes like this rock toadstool.

Doris chose #7639.  On top of the Coconino sandstone, looks like a magical place to camp, but day use only, and impossible to get to (I think).  Seen from the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park Point Imperial overlook.

Sherry chose #120, “for the day I hope our future will be come brighter.”  I think we all want that.  Me too.  Would love to have a mug like one of these, just a little oversized, but never found a new one I liked as much as the artifacts.  This shot was taken in 2005 when I worked as a Park Ranger at Mesa Verde National Park in the museum.

Jodee and Bill chose #3205.  From a January 2015 hike up Palm Canyon trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.

Jeff chose #0204, “the new tentative opening of Anza-Borrego State Park for camping.”  Not seen in California, these two rhinos were taking a mud bath in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa, where I camped in 2014.

Sallie and Bill chose #120, “when we are really celebrating a New Year.”  I’m with you on that.  And could almost be with you in reality where this shot was taken on the Rogue River in Oregon during the summer of 2007 when I Rangered at Oregon Caves National Monument.

Yogi had a laptop die so no number and I’ll pretend I’m random dot org giving him #63, the amount of words in his last comment.  Taken in 2005, the living room of my previous 5th-wheel, while parked in Colorado.

Susie chose #6666.  From a Christmas visit to friends in 2015.

My choice is the last sunset of 2020 from my camp near Plomosa Road north of Quartzsite, Arizona.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by ten readers including Grand Canyon and other interesting erosion features, South African elephants, and my current camp view.

Susie chose #8765.  If you walk away from a main viewpoint in any national park, this from the North Rim Grand Canyon, you get a different perspective.  Bonus was the fall colors.

Rita chose #7777.  This time a South Rim perspective of the Grand Canyon.  My favorite this week.

Doris chose #3022.  An incredible viewpoint called Fonts Point in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.

Cathy chose #5817.  Not too far north of Kanab, Utah SR89 crosses Kanab Creek.

Diane and Nigel chose #2512.  These hoodoos in Snake Gulch are seen on the North Kaibab National Forest.

Jodee and Bill chose #1207.  The Vista Encantada overlook on the North Rim looks east beyond the Grand Canyon almost 100 miles to Navajo Mountain in the far distance.

Sherry chose #5376.  She’s a magnet for ocean views.  This was just before sunset over the Indian Ocean in South Africa.

Yogi and Random dot org chose #7975.  I could watch elephants all day long.  And that would be pretty easy to do at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

Jeff chose #1228, “the date the SoCal lockdown is scheduled to be lifted.”  I think that date might have been rescheduled.  Yet there is hope.  Like the growth of this tiny Arizona Oak tree that will someday provide shade.

Mark chose #2020.  The Drakensburg Mountains in South Africa are lush green because of the storms.  I hiked there in 2010 and was drenched by a rain storm.

The last photo I took in 2020 from my newest camp Plomosa of what I believe is Quartzsite after sunset.

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Welcome to a New Year!

Not sure I’ve posted Foto Friday Fun on Christmas before, but what difference as the post was done and scheduled yesterday, and you can read it tomorrow.  Or any time if you choose.  So this week a different twist.  I have collected images and quotes over 50 years, sadly I can’t usually give credit.  But, in the spirit of the season hope to be forgiven by all who I have stolen from.  Is there a theme?  I guess so.  On Caturday, the day after Christmas celebrations, let’s carry a message of love into the next year and beyond.  Oh yea, and this week’s Foto Friday Fun also includes images from 10 readers with a lot of panoramas, water features, and Pueblo ruins.

Rita chose #8987.  None of those are my RV but I’m camped there.  This is what January in Quartzsite, Arizona usually looks like, packed with RVs.  I’m there for a gathering of friends.  Though the sunsets are still fine as you saw in my last post.

Lisa chose #755, one of three in a panorama.  Lone Rock Beach is a decent place to camp along the shores of Lake Powell and not far from Page Arizona.

Sherry chose #5972.  She gets to experience a similar scene in Florida but this is the Indian Ocean from Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa during my February 2014 visit.

Sue chose #2014.  Here we see some digging in the dirt, which Sue will identify with from a professional standpoint, at Elden Pueblo in Flagstaff, Arizona.  Archeologists where actively excavating and stabilizing this native site.

Yogi and random dot org chose #6459.  When traveling in South Africa I saw several different kinds of Protea, a flowering bush.  This black-bearded Protea would open to a hand-sized flower.

Diane and Nigel chose #1812, one of three in a panorama.  A view they might remember from visiting Grand Canyon complete with a curve of the Colorado River as seen from the North Rim’s Walhalla Overlook.

Susie chose #1219, a panorama from 2009.  That’s my shadow on Navajo Bridge where it crosses the Colorado River in Marble Canyon, Arizona.  Looks like a slide into the river to me.

Cathy chose #3274.  A small palm tree as I approached a grove on the Palm Canyon trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California in January 2015.

Jeff chose #443, “the cost of replacing the Jeep’s fuel pump.”  I feel your pain.  At least your jeep isn’t as old as these ruins at the Walhalla Glades on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  (Sorry, that was a stretch.)

Jodee and Bill chose #7047, another panorama.  One of my favorite sunset locations on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

My choice from the current Kofa camp, more on that soon.

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May the holidays find you the best you can be!