Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including several firsts and seconds, Southwest canyons’ red rock, Aspen trees, and dinosaurs.

Rita chose #5341.  Not sure I ever saw a bad sunset while camping along Rockhouse Road (no longer available for dispersed camping) adjacent to Anza-Borrego State Park, California.

Dale chose #1303.  A hoodoo view from Bryce Point during my first visit in 2010.  Little did I know I’d end up working and living in Bryce Canyon National Park.

Yogi let random dot org choose #8412.  A view into Grand Canyon from Moran Point on the South Rim where I celebrated my birthday in 2015.  He knows about celebrating birthdays and spreads the party many days on each side.  I learned that from him.

Doris chose #1153.  An expansive view to the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, Arizona as seen along Interstate-40 West.  I usually try to avoid freeways and hadn’t driven the route many times in April 2009 when this shot was taken through the windshield with a HP P&S.  Over the next 11 years I’ve seen this view in a variety of seasons.

Jo chose #1560.  A grove of Quaking Aspen near the North Rim Grand Canyon taken in September, 2009 right before they turn to Autumn gold.

Sherry chose #2174.  Taken my first visit to the remote Toroweap overlook along the north rim of Grand Canyon.  The iconic views 3000 feet down into the Colorado River are exquisite but the drive is not for the feint of heart.  Looking down stream Lava Falls can be seen, rates a 10 on the canyon scale and I can tell you it’s BIG.

Diane and Nigel chose #506.  My first Autumn as a Park Ranger on the North Rim in 2008 I experienced the absolute wonder of the Aspens going gold.

Jennifer chose #9340.  Her forest and wetland environment in Ontario probably doesn’t include Beavertail cactus yet is beautifully diverse in a different way than the desert environment in Congress, Arizona where this was taken in friends yard during April, 2015.  Look closely for the spider.

Pat chose #1355, the time it was.  And what a great time we had when she visited me at Grand Canyon in June 2014.  I’m sure we enjoyed this view from Point Imperial even without the rainbow seen 9-13-09.

Jeff chose #6820, “as Mission Bay Park will open on June 8th.”  And he didn’t waste any time visiting.  I’m thinking he’s probably also visited Joshua Tree National Park a time or two where this shot of Juniper Flats along the Keys View Road was taken 3-5-15.

Jodee and Bill chose #1321.  We actually met the first time on this verandah at the Grand Lodge on the North Rim.  Yet I’m sure it was busier than this shot the end of April, 2009 before the North Rim was open.

Jim and Diana chose #144.  From my first, and only, season as a Park Ranger at Mesa Verde National Park in 2005, this painting depicting daily life for the Ancestral Puebloans hung in the museum.

My choice is an example of what happens when several Park Rangers have been inside too long and are organizing props for geology talks that haven’t happened yet.  Recognize anybody?

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun includes images chosen by nine readers and features a diversity of places I love.

Sherry chose #6120, “for the day I was ‘supposed’ to arrive in the Finger Lakes In New York for a cool month before the pandemic closed everything down.”  From the photos I’ve seen it’s a beautiful area.  And so are the tall grasses that might be more reminiscent of the great plains but were actually seen north of Flagstaff, Arizona at the entrance of Wupatki National Monument.  Her choice is one of a five shot panorama taken 10-5-16.

Yogi and random dot org chose #9501.  This 1952 Chevrolet is perfect for him as he attends car shows.  Taken 4-19-15 at the Yarnell Car Show.

Sallie and Bill chose #2020.  I love the energy behind monsoon storms and while working on the North Rim Grand Canyon often went camping on my days off at Marble View along the eastern rim.

Diane and Nigel chose #2905.  During the end of September 2015 I took a mini-vacation with Bill—a friend that Diane and Nigel have met.  Gooseberry Guard Station was one of the places we visited because Bill had worked here in his younger years.

Rita chose #9071.  Wukoki Pueblo, one of several remains of a civilization from the past seen at Wupatki National Monument, Arizona.  The same place as the tall grass seen above.

Doris chose #1031.  My first experience seeing lions in Kruger National Park, South Africa was a thrill I will never forget.

Jeff chose #4226, “the elevation of our campsite near Julian.”  The elevation at my Ogilby Road campsite in southern California wasn’t much over 100 feet.  Lots of burrow holes.

Pat chose #3910, “the street address where I grew up.”  No street addresses located in Arches National Park during the same fall vacation with Bill as mentioned above.

Jim and Diana chose #151.  The window view I enjoyed while camphosting at Cave Creek and working at Oregon Caves the summer of 2007.  I truly loved picking a nightly salad from my container garden.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including Grand Canyon, South African wildlife, and tiny critters from Arizona.

Jim and Diana chose #158.  Saw this cactus blooming along the the North Kaibab trail in Bright Angel Canyon the first time I hiked rim-to-rim across Grand Canyon in 2008.

Jo chose #4000.  Not an uncommon sight when driving on safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Jennifer chose #1200.  I know she likes critters but not sure ants make that list.  I love to watch ants.  There was a huge ant colony in Berta’s yard that we both watched for years.  Sadly, the Yarnell fire took them out and we never saw them there again.

Yogi chose #9985.  Also on safari in South Africa during 2014 but this time a Blue Wildebeest in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve.

Sue chose #1953, “the year I was in the third grade.”  (In reference to one of last week’s photos.)  And this dramatic morning sky over the Grand Canyon was taken in the year 2010 from the North Rim Lodge.

Diane and Nigel chose #2205.  Although they didn’t get to visit the remote Toroweap above Grand Canyon I’m betting they saw plenty of Yucca growing during their Southwest tour.

Jeff chose #2012 “The year we enjoyed ‘The Ring of Fire’ from Bryce.  I watched that event from the North Rim at Grand Canyon, but not from the Toroweap overlook where this shot was taken looking across the narrow chasm at the Earth shadow at sunset.

Sherry chose #8888 because she’s been doing a lot of eating during lockdown.  It’s something many do when stressed.  Don’t know if this USGS guy is stressed in that cage above the Colorado River seen at Lee’s Ferry.  But I sure was when there shortly after the 2016 election.

Melissa chose #6166, for her hubby’s birthday.  I was hiking the Suspension Bridge trail in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa exactly one month before my birthday in 2014 where I saw this rocky view of the Indian Ocean.  Oh to see it like that Seagull.

Doris chose #467, one of four in a panoramic view east from Roosevelt Point on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  This shot was taken three days after the North Rim opened during my first season in 2008.

Susie chose #1717.  She lived in Arizona long enough to have seen the Vermilion Cliffs along SR89A in the northern part of the state.

Rita chose #421.  She always likes to see photos of the Grand Canyon and this view from Angels Window on the North Rim includes the Colorado River as seen from the same day as above from Roosevelt Point.

My pick for this week is from last summer at Bryce Canyon National Park.  I am currently labeling photos from June, 2019.  And being I haven’t gotten out for any sunsets from Bryce Point, this will have to do.

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