Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including wildlife, lots of national parks in Arizona, California, Utah, and South Africa.

Susie chose #1010.  My first sighting of lions on my first day of visiting Kruger National Park in South Africa.  Headed back to camp before sundown, lions often cause a traffic jam as they bed down for the night on the warm pavement.  BTW, they are HUGE.  Many lions walked by within five feet of the small pickup truck I was in.

Cathy chose #0317.  I have visited Death Valley National Park many times but the best by far was the Super-bloom of February 2016, even if this was a windy day.

Jennifer chose #7654.  It’s relatively common to see Bighorn Sheep in Zion National Park, Utah.  This youngster was seen during my last visit in January 2016.

Diane and Nigel chose #2011.  They will understand how nervous I was hiking past these Baboons in the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa.  Even though they were far away, this shot is zoomed and cropped, they closely watched us watching them.

Sherry chose #5319, “That’s this week’s campsite number and next weeks.”  Took this shot from a favorite camp with no number at Crazy Jug Point on the Kaibab National Forest.  Was trying for artsy-fartsy framing the view across Grand Canyon and through the saddle to a peak beyond.

Rita chose #798.  These balancing rocks called Toadstools occur when a boulder falls from the harder cliff onto soft sand then protects it from erosion.  These are seen along SR89A near Cliff Dwellers, Arizona.

Doris chose #679.  More of northern Arizona’s amazing rock formations also seen along SR89, the Painted Desert is located on the Navajo Reservation.

Lisa chose #5445.  Sunrise over the Indian Ocean a short walk from camp in Scottburgh, South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #250.  A P&S selfie from June 2008, my first season working at the North Rim Grand Canyon, and I was hiking to Cliff Spring.

My choice from the latest camp, a view of Vulture Peak just up the road.  I’m not far from Wickenburg, Arizona where the calendar delivery happened this week.  Many have been shipped, more will go out tomorrow, and there’s still some left so feel free to order.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including the Arizona strip, Grand Canyon, and several dramatic skies.

Jim and Diana chose #1949, “the time of tomorrows SpaceX Crew1 launch to the ISS.”  And he got some interesting shots of that event.  Which I wouldn’t have seen with a sky like this one over Grand Canyon 8-28-10.

Cathy chose #6214.  Another interesting sky at Grand Canyon as fog circled around Wotans Throne at Cape Royal on the North Rim 8-13-14.

Doris chose #1113.  Some lighter weight clouds but still casting shadows on the Vermilion Cliffs seen along SR89A 4-30-10.

Lisa chose #4568.  A cloudless sunset over Dome Rock Mountains north of Quartzsite, Arizona from my 1-24-15 camp.

Yogi chose #954.  This western view along SR89 in southern Utah runs on the edge of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument 4-17-09.

Jo chose #3005.  The Badlands, as seen from Fonts Point Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, look other worldly under a California sunset.

Diane and Nigel chose #1311.  Easy to see why this is called the Painted Desert in northern Arizona.

Sallie and Bill chose #312.  These are modern reproduction knapped arrowheads made by a friend.

Sue chose #1962 by default of her comment last week.  This shot was taken one minute after the first photo posted.

Rita chose #8930.  This lovely bouquet of lilacs were a birthday present from Berta.  The scent snaps me back to childhood playing under a hedge of lilacs in Illinois.

My choice, carefully peeking into a large Beavertail cactus to see a bird nest that had eggs last spring when I camped in Congress.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including rock and water, dirty-window shots, and me over many years.

Jennifer chose #1511.  I might have used this cropped shot as a profile picture back when taken in 2009 at the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Cathy chose #1211.  Iris were always an early sign of spring when living in Yarnell, Arizona.  This shot from 4-24-09.

Doris chose #9135.  The sandstone formations in Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness are a spectacular example of dunes frozen in time and beautiful at every turn.  Just around the corner to the left is the famous Wave that requires a permit to get this far.

Diane and Nigel chose #611.  The Box Canyon Dwelliing remains in Wupatki National Monument.  This stonework is only about 1000 years old and fallen apart without constant maintenance by the native people who built them.  No comparison to some of the even older buildings she shares from France.

Yogi chose #4460, one of four in a panorama.  Low tide on the Atlantic Ocean at West Coast National Park in Langebaan, South Africa taken 3-15-13.

Rita chose #3146.  Sunset view through a dirty RV window where I lived while working at the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park during summer 2015.

Lisa chose #290.  Another dirty window shot, this time doggy art, looking up stream at Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam near Page Arizona.  I believe the “bath-tub ring” is even lower now than this 2008 shot.

Sherry chose #9999.  The view east at sunset of the Kofa Mountains from my Kings Valley camp on the Kofa National Wildlife Refugee, Arizona 2-12-18.

Jeff chose #46 “to honor our nations 46th POTUS.”  Although this shot of me is from 1955, I am giddy with happiness.

Sallie and Bill got #92 for the number of words from their comment.  Hey look, seven years later and I’m still smiling.

Susie chose #0121 for the day we welcome the new POTUS to the White House.  I hope it’s not soiled like this almost white door frame housing a Redwinged Starling family where we went almost daily for iced passion fruit while visiting Pilanesberg Game Reserve in South Africa.

My first choice is the sunrise view from my camp a couple weeks ago at Snowbird Mesa.

And, because I finally got a most wonderful haircut from my favorite Yarnell beautician, you get to look at my mug once again.

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