Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including Arizona Strip with the Grand Canyon and my favorite cookie place, the Kgalagadi, and a much younger me in a skort.

Jim and Diana chose #270.  My first summer working on the North Rim Grand Canyon even before opening in May 2008 I was out exploring near the park and discovered the observation area along House Rock Valley Road and below the Condor release site located on top of the Vermilion Cliffs.  Public Lands Day in September there is a public release so those interested in the Condor recovery program can watch them fly into their new wild home skies.

Cathy chose #4325.  While exploring southeastern Utah with a friend in October, 2015 we ended up in Hanksville and looked up the BLM office he used to work at.

Jeff chose #1111, for Veteran’s Day (Nov 11) when the DOI will begin free entrance to all the fee areas it manages for ALL veterans.  This snowy scene might look like November but was actually taken April 30, 2010 on my way to the North Rim Grand Canyon for the summer season.

Lisa chose #22, a scanned print taken in Downers Grove, Illinois during the summer of 1970.  Yea, that’s me, and I’m wearing a skort.  Do you know what that is?

Yogi chose #8860.  One of many large mammals in South Africa.  This Red Hartebeest was seen in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park during March 2014.

Diane and Nigel chose #3110.  The 2014 4th of July water parade at the North Rim brought out Uncle Sam with a vintage truck carrying a huge barrel of water to soak people down.

Rita chose #1498.  Cape Royal will always be a favorite place for sunsets, and all views, on the North Rim Grand Canyon.  This shot from 9-14-09.

Sherry forgot a number (she’s at the beach) so I gave her #148 for the number of words in her comment.  From my previous 5th-wheel, this eastern window view while camphosting at Cave Creek on the Siskiyou National Forest when I was also working as a Park Ranger at Oregon Caves National Monument during summer 2007.

Susie chose #3135.  Trees are so resilient growing out of rocky environments like this limestone along the Bright Angel Point trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Doris chose #9002.  This point of entry was where we entered Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park to camp at Twee Rivieren.  This would also be where one checked in to leave South Africa and enter Namibia, or in reverse.  But we didn’t leave the country.  Maybe next time.

Sallie and Bill chose #1005, a panorama.  Jacob Lake Inn sits at the junction of SR89A and SR67 into the North Rim.  I’ve bought many pieces of native jewelry here and always stop for the worlds best cookies.

My choice of Sierra in the truckcamper now that we are back on the road.

And a spare shot I saw while searching for your numbers.  Because Arizona voted blue, and green.

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December 2021 calendar – Up close to a Saguaro cactus on the Kofa NWR AZ

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including moons at sunset, a leopard in a tree, a place that looks like Bryce, and my Mom and Dad.

Jim and Diana chose #4, VOTE!  My Mom and Dad were celebrating their birthdays, only four days apart at Dianna’s in Chicago Illinois in June 1974.  I have no idea how they ever voted as politics was one of several taboo subjects in my childhood home.

Cathy chose #8967, “for my two favorite drives…”  Both would be taken to visit the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park where this shot of the moon at sunset was taken 10-6-14.

Doris chose #9808.  While on safari one has to look closely in trees for the well camouflaged leopard like this in Pilanesberg Game Reserve in South Africa during my last trip in 2014.

Yogi chose #6645.  I like the shapes of trees even when long dead and the boulders made a nice background along the Hidden Valley trail in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Rita chose #4323.  Notice the long low cloud hanging over the South Rim of Grand Canyon as seen from the North Rim.

Diane and Nigel chose #2310.  I visited Hovenweep National Monument with Bill—who they’ve met—during a lunar eclipse on 9-27-15.

Susie chose #0489.  Seen in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, this Buffalo and Egret don’t seem to care if it’s Hippo Loop.

Jodee and Bill chose #9421.  I spent my 60th birthday at Augrabies Falls National Park South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #1120.  The view downstream along the Colorado River to Lees Ferry and beyond to the Vermilion Cliffs, Marble Canyon Arizona 4-30-10.

Sherry chose #1029, “the day I finally head south.  First stop, Santee State Park to visit Congaree National Park.”  I’ve already headed south away from Bryce Canyon National Park, which this is not.  Instead it is Cedar Breaks National Monument, same rock.

My choice from Aspen Mirror Lake, similar to the last post.

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April 2021 calendar – Crepuscular rays light up the desert landscape in Congress Arizona

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by eight readers including fall colors, North Kaibab meadows, Grand Canyon, and thankfully no snow yet.

Jim and Diana chose #11, how many days until the election.  VOTE!  This print taken in 1970 was oil stained when I scanned it.  The Chevy Nomad belonged to a high school boyfriend in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Diane and Nigel chose #1610.  A short hike to a beautiful waterfall at the base of the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa.

Cathy chose #1024.  A familiar drive south on SR67 to the North Rim Grand Canyon.  Crane Lake in one of the many meadows on the Kaibab National Forest taken 8-12-09.

Sherry chose #8765.  Not easy to find fall colors and the canyon but I managed on a far shot from the Upper Ken Patrick trail near Point Imperial on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park on 9-30-14.

Rita chose #1564.  It is easy to find fall aspen in an old burn like the Outlet fire from 2000 seen on the scenic drive to Cape Royal on the North Rim.  This window shot taken 9-21-09.

Doris chose #832.  Another meadow shot on the Kaibab with a spring only pond near Bison corner headed south to the North Rim Grand Canyon taken 5-15-09.

Jodee and Bill chose #6201.  Inversion during monsoon August 2014 had clouds swirling around Wotans Throne as see from Cape Royal, the end of the scenic drive on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Yogi chose #7300.  Late light on a stormy monsoon day at Grand Canyon from the lodge veranda.

My choice this week includes fall colors at Bryce Canyon and they are disappearing quickly.  When I leave on Sunday there is a prediction for rain and snow.  Guess I’m getting out just barely in time.  After looking at low nighttime temperatures within a couple hundred mile radius the current plan, which could certainly change, is run to Fredonia about two hours away and stay in a RV park with hookups for heat at least for the first night out, and then take it from there.

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November 2021 – A storm moving in or leaving left half a rainbow gift over the hoodoos Bryce Canyon National Park Utah

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