Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including several firsts, like South Africa, snow Grand Canyon, and desert dreaming.

Susie chose #4857.  A dramatic monsoon storm moving east across Grand Canyon from Crazy Jug Point on the Kaibab National Forest.

Diane and Nigel chose #910.  During my first visit to Kruger National Park in March of 2010 I learned the most commonly seen animal are Impalas, yet I also saw the Big 5.

Jodee and Bill chose #626.  My first visit to Buckskin Gulch slot canyon, and I was absolutely blown away.

Sherry chose #6215.  She’s way more a water baby than I but I do like to hear the crashing waves and Tsitsikamma National Park in South Africa is where I’ve heard them most recently, that was 2-26-14.

Rita chose #7131.  Joshua Tree National Park in California has rounded granite boulders much like where I lived in Yarnell, Arizona.  These were seen along the Barker Dam trail in the former.

Doris chose #591.  One time while driving in the Kaibab National Forest a rock stuck in my Ford truck’s wheel, screeching loudly, and wouldn’t fall out.  I tried all the tricks I knew and finally stopped to let it cool down.  Went for a walk and saw this turkey feather.  Rock finally did fall out but it was many hours later.

Jim and Diana chose #18.  Add ten for the number of inches of snow seen in this shot from my window.  I was a winter volunteer for the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington 1995/96.  Five of us were snowed in at the remote Pine Creek Work Station.  Not so bad until melt and flood followed so we were evacuated.  My first helicopter evacuation.

Yogi chose #2022.  My first visit to Toroweap in 2010 along the remote north-west rim of Grand Canyon with this iconic sunset view upstream above the Colorado River.

Jeff chose #1103.  This snowy view might look like November but was taken the end of April, 2010 of my boss and her rig on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Rita’s number brought up this pretty memory from February, 2017 taken along the Ajo Mountain Road in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.  Hope to see similar landscape this winter.

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Calendar shot for October 2021 – Thors Hammer and hoodoos as the full moon rises through the Earth Shadow from Navajo Loop Trail Bryce Canyon National Park Utah

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including Grand Canyon, a fun fence, strange coincidence of the 26th of different months over several years, and the 2021 Geogypsy calendar cover shot most chosen by readers.

Yogi and random dot org chose #8260.  Monsoon was my favorite season while working at Grand Canyon National Park as I loved to watch the storms and feel the powerful energy.  I often drove into the Kaibab National Forest to the rim and this shot is from Parissawampitts Point taken 9-26-14.

Jim and Diana chose #25.  A scanned print from a California vacation summer 1971 of Donner Lake as my family returned to Illinois.

Jennifer chose #6129.  Interesting coastal rocks along the Indian Ocean seen from the Suspension Bridge trail in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa during my visit 2-26-14.

Susie chose #2021, “hoping it will be a better year for all of us.”  I think we’d all agree with that as it’s been feeling like a constant construction zone, certainly worse than pictured along SR89A in northern Arizona taken 9-27-15.

Diane and Nigel chose #210, one of two in a panorama.  Berta and I had so much fun building this fence by attaching the beautiful slab wood to a small, already existing decorative fence.  Then rain soaked the ground and wind blew our fence over but it was repaired.

Jeff chose #1998, “the last time my PADRES won a post season series.”  This shot taken 9-26-10 was the first time I visited the iconic Toroweap view of Grand Canyon and this is right across the chasm from that overlook.

Rita chose #2933.  A mid-June storm in 2015 brought low clouds dancing around Vishnu Temple as seen from Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Lisa chose #9273.  The Wave, ultimate hiking destination by permit only in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.

Sallie and Bill chose #654.  A fun view looking east and north while driving south on SR89A in northern Arizona.  Echo Cliffs to my left and Vermilion Cliffs behind.  Confused yet?

Sherry chose #1031, “the day I leave to get back on the road.”  I know that desire.  The first shot was taken on a 9-20-10 road trip to Bryce Canyon from the Bristlecone Loop trail southward.  I also included the same view taken last Saturday, 10-3-20, with a much reduced view due to smoky haze.

Hard to believe I’ve been blogging for 12 years.  I was working my first season at Grand Canyon and a friend suggested I try blogging to share stories and photos.  I didn’t even know what that meant.  After a little nosing around I published my first blogspot post on 10-08-08.  I joined a couple of memes, where I met some of you.  Then continued to write, at first almost daily and don’t know how I did that.  Though I don’t post nearly as often, I still enjoy sharing stories and photos.  Yet the best part of blogging is you.

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Cover shot taken from February camp at Kofa NWR AZ

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including various shades of red rock in Utah and Arizona, a couple panoramic landscapes above and below ground, and my hiking/travel companion for many years.

Cathy chose #739.  I sometimes camp along Lake Powell with this view near Wahweap Bay not far from Page, Arizona yet across the state line in Utah.

Jo chose #304.  She knows about walking with your dog.  Carson and I explored a lot of trails.  This from our first season at the North Rim Grand Canyon in June 2008.

Yogi, and random dot org, chose #3260.  An amazingly huge view of Canyonlands from Bridger Jack Road before even entering the national park.

Sherry chose #9252.  An exceedingly happy me at The Wave in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona.  Had to hike in Utah to get there.

Susie chose #4867.  A southern Arizona desert landscape near Quartzsite and similar to where she’s lived even further south in Arizona yet very different than her current desert in Saudi Arabia.

Jim and Diana chose #32.  The fish ladder at Spring Creek fish hatchery along the Columbia River in Underwood, Washington.  Took this while working for Fish and Wildlife in 1996.

Diane and Nigel chose #2509, one of five in a panorama.  Mountain Zebra National Park provided some of the largest views in wildlife safari parks in South Africa.

Doris chose #8955.  A Secretary bird, named because the head feathers standing up looks like pencils stuck in a secretary’s hair.  They are funny birds that stomp their insect and lizard food.  Saw them in several South African national parks including this shot in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park during my 2014 visit.

Rita chose #5732, a place she always likes to see.  A May storm in 2016 with virga dropping from the clouds yet not hitting the land as seen from the North Rim Lodge Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Jodee and Bill chose #137, one of five in a panorama in Oregon Caves taken during my 2007 summer season.  Paradise Lost is too tall to even capture in a panorama and is a tall-staired side-trip on the national monuments walking tour.

Jeff chose #2016, “my PADRES last made it to the playoffs 14 years ago.”  Me thinks something isn’t quite right with either the number or the math—but then I am easily confused over sports.  But then the Eye of the Needle might not look quite right either as seen on my Drakensburg hike during my first visit to South Africa in 2010.  (My favorite shot this week.)

Last week’s sunrise visit to Bryce Point with friends brought interesting spots of light on the hoodoos below us.

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