Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including South Africa, Grand Canyon, and the blast zone around Mt St Helens.

Jo chose #4128.  Believe it or not, I am standing on a clutch of ostrich eggs, and holding a feather because I’d just ridden an ostrich.

Cathy chose #4769.  Watching sunset across False Bay from my Moonglow balcony on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa was a true gift one day after my 2010 birthday.

Jennifer gets #4 for the number of words in her last comment.  A scanned print from March 1990 of a bald eagle sharing a tree with lots of smaller birds.  The Padilla Bay estuary in Washington was a favorite place for a nature fix not far from Bellingham where I went to Western Washington University.

Gypsy chose #0522, “Mays have been a very eventful month.”  Well this shot taken in an April marked an eventful month in 2014 towards the end of my third visit to South Africa.  Look closely for the four hippos seen in Pilanesberg Game Reserve.

Diane and Nigel chose #2705.  The magic of inversion seen at Grand Canyon from the North Rim Walhalla overlook.

Liberal Warrior gets #116 for the number of words in his first comment from last week.  I’m pretty sure this view into Mt St Helens’ blast zone and beyond is Clear Creek canyon, the green in the distance replanted.  Taken 12 years after the eruption during my summer 1992 season as a Forest Ranger.

Jeff chose #0602, “the date Fran returns from Ohio.”  And now she’s home.  Visiting the beach in Bandon, Oregon in 2014, was a going home for Berta who lived there for many years.  This twisted driftwood made a nice frame for a bit of ocean.  I like tree frames.

Rita chose #6324.  The Cottonwood Road in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah is a geologists’ dream.  But sometimes, the road is impassable.  (My favorite shot this week.)

Doris chose #528.  Early September storm clouds building over the drive north on SR67, away from the North Rim and through the old 2006 Warm Fire remains.

Sallie and Bill chose #6522.  Sunset over the Indian Ocean from Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.

Alan chose #8335.  Grand Canyon view northeast from Moran Point on the South Rim taken on my 2015 birthday.  Because the Colorado River is out of sight, this is what he would describe as the “outer canyon”.

June 1989 was towards the end of my volunteer experience as an animal keeper at the California Living Museum (CALM).  It’s not easy to get a porcupine to pose.  As an animal keeper, I was in Spike’s enclosure feeding, watering, and scooping poop.  He would sit up for an ear of feed corn, and also allow a little scratch on his velvet soft nose.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including Grand Canyon and surrounding areas, Utah, Washington, and Mexico.

Cathy chose #0805, “for North Rim Heritage Days this year that I plan to catch.”  Hope the weather is better than this day watching the canyon from the North Rim’s Grand Lodge on 9-13-15.

Alan chose #2348.  Looking upstream from Toroweap overlook into the shadowy depths at the Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park.

Liberal Warrior chose #1361.  Yet another rainy day at the North Rim this time looking at Grand Canyon from Point Imperial 9-13-09.  September is still monsoon season some years.

Rita chose #3333.  From a high overlook in Knysna along the Garden Route of South Africa, the Western Head jutting into the Indian Ocean.  From my first visit in 2010.

Diane and Nigel chose #2005.  That year I visited San Felipe, Mexico with Darlene who you can barely see in the toilet on the beach.  Was a posed shot.

Gypsy chose #1911.  Along the road to Toroweap, same trip as above.

Jodee and Bill chose #2826.  From a quick road trip in southeastern Utah during September 2015, the Manti-La Sal National Forest.  Red rock and forest makes a beautiful combination.

Jeff chose #528, “the local time when the unmanned Starlink docked with the International Space Station.”  Although not in space, this shot of the Cockscomb by my camp in southern Utah is other worldly.  As was the hike I did the next day in Wire Pass and Buckskin Gulch.

Sallie and Bill chose #672.  Sandstone Toadstool in Grand Staircase Escalante, Utah.  A short hike into breathtaking country.

My choices from May 1996 when I worked for Fish & Wildlife Service in Washington.  My office was located along the Little White Salmon River at the hatchery (first shot) and my government house was located across the road left from the Spring Creek Fish Hatchery along the Columbia River.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including North and South Grand Canyon, wildlife, and me.

Jo chose #9564.  Spring 2015 Yarnell held a Car Show.  Fitting their are classic gas stations in town.

Alan chose #7212.  He hikes frequently so I wonder if he ever came across a warning sign for an aggressive Blue Grouse on a trail.  This bird chase hikers on the Widforss Trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon during early June in 2016.

Gypsy chose #0910, “for meteor shower viewing near Mayer.”  The North Rim of Grand Canyon was a grand place to watch the night sky.  Visitors could stay in these cabins.  Though this four-shot panorama was taken about two weeks before the North Rim opened in 2014.  Yes, that’s snow.

Diane and Nigel chose #1305.  My shadow shot against a granite boulder while hiking in the Weaver Mountains in Yarnell, Arizona.

Sue chose #1971, “for the very first time I drove our 1960 beat up Ford Fairlane down Oak Creek Canyon and saw Sedona for the first time.”  In the summer of 1971 I flew in an airplane for the first time from Los Angeles to Sacrament and this is how I dressed.  At 16-years old I dressed to get served a cocktail on the plane.  Of course that didn’t happen.

Cathy chose #3022.  Smokey Bear rode in the 2014 4th of July water parade at the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jodee and Bill chose #7727.  I could watch elephants all day and a waterhole is a great place for that.  Herd after herd take turns drinking and playing.  Seen at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

Rita gets #45 for the number of words in her last comment.  During the 1980s I practiced the craft of stained glass.  This piece was made for a friend’s front door who raised Angel fish in Illinois.

Sherry chose #8379.  Fall aspen on the North Kaibab National Forest, Arizona.

Jeff chose #517, when his wife left for Ohio.  More fall leaves, this time at the edges of Harvey Meadow on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Doris chose #4186.  A regular stop along SR67 when driving between Jacob Lake and the North Rim.  A fire in 2006 opened the forest for this view of the Vermilion Cliffs, Marble Canyon, Echo Cliffs and Navajo Mountain on the horizon about 100 miles away.

Sallie and Bill chose #8500.  A South Rim view of Grand Canyon from Moran Point includes a piece of the Colorado River.  Took this shot on my birthday 2015.

liberalwarrior chose #1357, one of two in a panorama.  From the North Rim’s Point Imperial overlook rain could be seen.

During May of 1989 I was an animal keeper at the California Living Museum, CALM, in Bakersfield, California.  I donated the drawing of Bald Eagles in mating flight to the newly built Raptor Round.  The cougar named Sierra was bigger than my kitty but just as friendly.  And so was the baby bobcat born at the facility.

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