Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including South African fauna and flora, Southwest redrock, and the ass end of an elephant.

Jim and Diana chose #1121, “the time of today’s SpaceX launch of a new Sirius XM satellite.”  This shot of Waterbucks grazing was the time of day for sunrise while on safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa my first visit in 2010.

Doris chose #9751.  This Pied Kingfisher was definitely looking for something to eat at the Mankwe Dam (reservoir) in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa during my 2014 visit.

Lisa chose #5280.  One of many unidentified flowers in the gardens at Forever Resort Badplaas, South Africa.  To be honest, I was camped there for the thermal water slides, but the beautiful grounds were nice also.

Diane and Nigel chose #1112.  Though the shot is out of focus, they are intrigued by slot canyons so I’m going with what looks to me like a sculpture of profiles facing each other like lovers.  Antelope Slot Canyon near Page, Arizona 9-10-09.

Yogi chose #9429.  The Wave, another iconic feature in the Southwest.  Ancient sand dunes turned to stone.  My favorite shot this week.  A great hike that does require a permit.

Rita chose #847, one of two in a panorama.  Another great hike, now requires a permit but is closed due to COVID, Havasu Canyon, creek, falls, and reservation.  This is below Mooney Falls, which requires some bravery to climb down to.

Jeff chose #1221, as the planets align and the days get longer I’m looking forward to a better year!”  Hear, hear, I’ll drink to that!  And here is the skeleton of an elephant aligned to look up it’s ass (which is how I’d like to see 2020 leaving).  Elephant Museum at Letaba Rest Camp Kruger National Park, South Africa 3-9-10.

Sherry chose #7777.  Out the door camped in Belly Acres RV Park in Ajo, Arizona doesn’t compare with her lovely views out the motorhome windshield onto a Florida beach.

Cathy chose #9001.  As seen along the hike to The Wave may be easier to imagine massive sand dunes lithified, or turned into rock, then sculpted by wind and water.

Jodee and Bill chose #1643.  The Drakensburg Mountains are topped with rich black basalt cliffs and slopes covered in green as seen from the Sterkspruit Falls trail hiked 3-14-10 in South Africa.

Sue chose #1976, “for my first year mapping soils.”  I’d map at least two distinctively different soils in this location with my back to the Kelso Dunes and facing the Providence Mountains under the moon in Mojave National Preserve, California in February 2016.  (Go slow, the road isn’t that bad.)

My choice of a sunset last week from camp on Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.  Should be posting about this place next as I’m about two weeks behind real time.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including Grand Canyon with the Colorado River, several BIG birds, and more greens than usual.

Diane and Nigel chose #412.  One of few places to see the Colorado River in the depths of Grand Canyon from the North Rim is the top of Angels Window, where they didn’t go while visiting the canyon.  So now they know what it looks like from there.

Cathy chose #5823.  This Raven appeared to be eyeballing the dripping water, seen far right, from the seep spring called Mossy Cave at Bryce Canyon National Park.

Doris chose #4336.  I don’t consider myself an OCD birder but do like to watch birds, especially while on safari in South Africa because those birds are unique to me.  Like this Saddle-billed Stork seen in Kruger National Park during February, 2014.

Jeff chose #1204.  Near and far view from Vista Encantada overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  Brady Peak maybe two miles away while the distant Echo Cliffs about 60 miles of flight across the Marble Plateau.

Sue chose #2021 “hoping for a shift in energy as the year changes.”  As we all are.  A fern is something she sees regularly in the Pacific Northwest.  Yet for me more unique in the Southwest.  This seen along a northern section of the Arizona Trail.

Lisa chose #100.  Look closely for Carson coming down stream in Cave Creek where I was the camp host on the Siskiyou National Forest just down the road from Oregon Caves where I worked during summer 2007.

Jennifer chose #2222.  The metal nursing camel sculpture by Ricardo Breceda is one of many metal animals to be seen Around Borrego Springs, California.  There’s even a dragon.

Yogi chose #2108.  It’s a 3000 foot drop and iconic view of the Colorado River upstream from Toroweap.  Definitely worth the long rough ride.

Gypsy chose #62, a new old friend met IRL while camped in Congress.  These hawks had injuries beyond rehabilitation and lived in the California Living Museum when I worked there as an animal keeper during 1989 in Bakersfield.

Rita gets #63 for the number of words in her comment.  This Golden Eagle also from the California Living Museum.

Jim and Diana chose #1139, “for the time of this morning’s SpaceX resupply mission launch to the ISS.”  This Cooper’s hawk was not ready to launch and instead wanted to eat whatever, taken through a window in Yarnell, Arizona.

Jodee and Bill chose #1465.  Another Colorado River view this time from Walhalla overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Susie chose #4923.  Another Grand Canyon view westward, can’t see the river, from Crazy Jug Point, a favorite camp spot on the Kaibab National Forest.

My choice, you are likely to see more than once as it’s my favorite so far, from my current camp Kofa of sunset over the Chocolate Mountains.  I just can’t get enough of this place and am labeling photos from January’s visit.  I might call it, one of my homes because I love the yard.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by six readers all from the American Southwest, rocks, plant, artifacts, and dog.  (OK, the dog came from Washington state but the photo was taken in Arizona.)

Diane and Nigel get #62 for the number of words in their comment.  Carson, my previous fur baby, traveled with me for 11 1/2 years.  This shot taken in 2005 when he was eight years old.  Is that not a look of love?

Jodee and Bill chose #836.  A monsoon storm over The Rimrock of Grand Staircase Escalante, Utah during September, 2009.

Yogi and random dot org chose #608.  My first time hiking Buckskin Gulch slot canyon and I totally didn’t understand how to photograph the stark contrasts of light and shadow in 2009.

Rita chose #100.  Not the best shot through glass in the museum at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado when I worked there in 2005.  Interesting artifacts from the Ancestral Puebloans with a lot of quill work and the vest could be beads.

Cathy chose #1208, a panorama.  Different truck and camper in August 2010 in House Rock Valley, Arizona.

Sherry chose #9379.  A close up roseate of Agave taken in Congress, Arizona 4-14-15.  My favorite this week.

My choice, the rocks I collected last week, and left behind, from a walk near camp at the feet of the Vulture Mountains.  Can you see the tiny (1/4”) quartz crystals?

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