Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including red-rocks of canyon country, snow, and learning to tie-dye.

Jo chose #2099.  Look closely down in the shadows of Grand Canyon flows the Colorado River 3000 foot below the iconic Tuweep overlook on the north side of the big ditch.

Rita chose #6666.  This limestone outcrop is similar to and not far from Snake Gulch where I’ve seen much evidence of Native American inhabitants.

Jennifer chose #9126.  She sees snow every winter, and I’d like her to keep it in Canada.  However, the winter I lived in Kanab, Utah I saw quite a bit of snow, this from my RV window at Crazy Horse RV Park 2-1-16.

Diane and Nigel chose #1001.  After my 2006 summer Park Ranger season at Oregon Caves I stayed in the fall for a Barter Faire and a friend taught me how to tie dye.  I’m a late learning old hippy.

Melissa chose #7411, the time she left her comment last week.  These fins of rock are fragile even though slightly harder than the surrounding sandstone and the first time I’d seen the likes while hiking in upper Buckskin Gulch, Utah, with lots of water because it was a hot July day in 2015.

Sherry chose #1847.  White Pocket, the first big view most stop for, and some take photos.  This from my first visit May 2015 thankfully with someone else driving.

Yogi let random dot org choose #1469.  Maybe random can identify this mushroom seen along the Widforss trail during fall 2010 on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Jeff chose #257, the amount of his “utility bill from hosting December guests and Christmas festivities.”  Here we see the cost of fuel on 10-12-08 in Kanab, Utah.  The stop light junction of SR89A and SR89 may be familiar to many.

Sallie and Bill chose #1108, “part of a very old address.”  With a stretch you could call Mile 60? an address along SR67 heading North across the Kaibab National Forest to the North Rim.  This was taken on 4-30-10 before the North Rim was open.  Some years more snow than others.

Jodee and Bill chose #445.  Wukoki Pueblo, one of many ruins seen in Wupatki National Monument during a spring visit in 2009.

Lisa chose #243, one of two in a panorama looking towards the North Rim.  My first rim-to-rim Grand Canyon hike the first season working there in 2008.

My first choice, #0115 for the date I worked on this post.  Zoomed to the inner canyon seen below the Grand Lodge on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park taken 4-26-15, before the park was open.

Second choice taken 1-15-20, warm colors of the desert and Whipple Mountains enhanced by the westering sun as seen from my free camp near Blue Water Casino in Parker, Arizona.  A place to shop.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by six readers including a little South Africa, a lesson in Ocotillo, and a lot of nostalgia.

TreDeuce chose #9796.  A touch of fall among the pines looking down slope from Marble View, a place I camp at frequently on the Kaibab National Forest adjacent to the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  Then I searched for #96 and came up with 12-year old me in 1966.

Diane and Nigel chose #301 and got a rather boring shot of my coffee cup—still drinking from it—taken in my previous 5th-wheel in 2008.  The oldest unused #01 shows perfectly what 2 1/2-year old me thought of my first stinky hair permanent in 1956.

Yogi chose #4417.  As we headed back to camp in Kruger National Park these Hippos were headed into the water.  #17 went back to 1980 when I practiced stained glass and often made gifts like this wedding present for a cousin.

Rita chose #5931.  Sunsets over the Indian Ocean, like anywhere, weren’t always colorful yet I also enjoyed the crashing waves at Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.  #31 caught me bathing in the kitchen sink and could have been for my birthday dated March 1955.

Melissa chose #71, which is what started the reminiscing for the other low numbers.  I’m with my brother in 1956, before the permanent. 

Jo chose #4037.  These crazy ice-cream swirls of rock are seen at White Pocket.  Bill first took me there and then we shared with Pam and John.  She will totally understand the excitement of sharing a place with friends like she did with me.  #37, my first steps just over one-year old in 1955.

My choice, one of several Ocotillo in the current camp yard.  It is not dead.  This flower bud is all but done while one neighbor still has brilliant red blooms and another is covered with tiny leaves.  This unusual plant with multiple spiny sticks grow like a fountain and can show leaf and bloom several times a year after rainfall.  I’m still trying to get a decent shot of all these steps seen here in one photo.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by seven readers including a lot of low clouds, Christmas, and a young me.

Melissa chose #1224, “because that is the day I found out how well you keep a secret!”  That secret was her daughter getting her one of my calendars for a Christmas present.  And this shot wasn’t in it.    But I’m in this shadow shot on the Navajo Bridge that crosses the Colorado River at Marble Canyon.

Yogi chose #6259.  This foggy view of Grand Canyon was taken at the Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim.

Diane and Nigel chose #2712.  Lots of cattle grazing goes on the BLM land in northern Arizona and thus fence and gates.

Jennifer chose #63.  Mom and me in 1956.

Jo chose #2003, one of two in a panorama.  She will recognize the Drakensburg Mountains in her back yard where her son guided me on an overnight hike during my first visit to South Africa in 2010.

Jeff chose #2924, “as Clemson defeated Ohio State 29-4 to advance to the finals.”  This might have been my final shot of the day at Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Rita chose #4987.  Hopi Hoop dancer Derek Suwaima-Davis at the North Rim Grand Canyon’s 2014 Heritage Days.

My choices to catch up to 2020.  The first three shots from a Christmas drive with a friend along the Joshua Tree Highway and looped back on the Bagdad Road for a crested Saguaro and home for purple rain.  The last shot is a reverse sunrise through a very dirty window as my first shot of the year, with my phone.  Next post from the desert.

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