Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 15 readers including shades of orange, South African wildlife, and mini-me.

Rita chose #9494.  My hiking partner Bill headed down the iconic Wave formation, ancient sand dunes turned to stone.

Cathy chose #8591.  A tree full of Vervet monkeys, the most mischievous animal seen in Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa.

Jennifer chose #6565.  This sunset hung above the Indian Ocean in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.

Doris chose #9077.  This sunset was seen from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Alan chose #7905.  Just lion around on the side of the road.  This collared lioness was seen in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

Sallie and Bill get #59 for the number of words in their last comment.  That’s little old me at two-years old in 1956, off to see the world.

Diane and Nigel chose #2503.  Even on a cloudy afternoon, sometimes the light shines through.  Seen while camping in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California.

Jo chose #8882.  A pair of Blackbacked Jackals seen at the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in her home country of South Africa.

Sandee chose #1313.  Wildlife often uses roads as an open trail like this giraffe seen in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Ray chose #1997.  The golden hour sure accented the Kelso Dunes in Mojave National Preserve, California.

Jeff chose #9008, “the distance in km the Netherlands ASRN rowing team traveled to compete in this weekends Crew Classic.”  Glad I didn’t have to go that distance to hike the Palm Canyon trail in Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona.

Gypsy chose #38.  A lousy pic of me at one-year old.

Sherry chose #3278.  A wind and water carved limestone bluff seen near the Indian Ocean in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.

Sue chose #2622.  SR95 east in Utah cuts through Comb Ridge, and leads to many awesome red rock sights.

Liberalwarrior chose #1371.  More Utah red rock of a different kind and place.  This is a wall of limestone towering above the Navajo Loop trail in Bryce Canyon seen the first time I hiked it in 2010.

My choice is a recent sunrise (that’s no April Fool’s joke) in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by ten readers including a mix from South Africa, Utah, Arizona, Illinois and California.

Rita chose #4196.  It’s not easy to see an elephant’s eye partially because they are not usually very close while on safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa.  But also because of their delightfully long eyelashes.

Jo chose #2834.  More Jumping Cholla, this time seen in the Mojave Desert in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.

Sallie and Bill chose #1033.  If you’re ever in the area around Kanab, Utah visit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.  Take a tour or volunteer time.  This shot is looking down on one of the many animal cemeteries filled with wind-chimes.

Gypsy chose #19.  Me at three and a half months old and my brother at seven.  Taken in 1954, later scanned, in Hinsdale, Illinois where I was born.

Sue receives #26 for the number of words in her comment.  A commissioned stained glass lamp made in 1980 in Illinois to hang in an entryway of a bi-level house.  Not one of my favorite pieces.

Diane and Nigel chose #1803.  Sunset over the Drakensberg Mountains from Monks Cowl camp in South Africa.

Cathy chose #1939.  Zion National Park is in her backyard.  On this visit with my ex-pat Serbian friend Pat we rode the shuttle up and down canyon and I shot the boon through an open roof vent.

Alan chose #9990.  My RV view over Transept Canyon during a late April storm when I worked at the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park in 2015.

Doris chose #5219.  Back to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park for a February hike in Palm Canyon.

Sherry chose #3202, a panorama.  She would love to hug this massive Yellow-wood tree I saw in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa in 2010.  It would take all of us to reach around this big tree.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 14 readers including many animals from South Africa and western USA, nice landscapes, and more of my birthday celebrations.

Jo chose #5197.  Living in southern Africa she’s probably seen lions more than once.  Always a thrill, never gets old.  This lioness may have been out hunting—yes she looks pretty lean—in Kruger National Park, but maybe for a mate instead of food.

Jennifer chose #2000.  She may still be looking at snow piles instead of sand like seen here from camp under late light at the Kelso Dunes in Mojave National Preserve, California.

Cathy chose #2008.  Minutes later from the above shot, the truckcamper glows from a reflected sunset.

Sherry chose #3303.  South African Dassie—looks like a hamster on steroids—play in the rocks along the Indian Ocean in Tsitsikamma National Park.  They are just as pesty as small mammals in the US national parks.

Diane and Nigel chose #1103.  Not all animals are wild yet may wander on public lands, and roads.  Theses cows were hanging out on SR67 in the Kaibab National Forest.  That’s the drive into the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Sallie and Bill received #71 for the number of words in their last comment.  I was a volunteer animal keeper in 1989 at the California Living Museum (CALM) in Bakersfield.  The San Juaquin Kit Fox was an endangered species and this injured male couldn’t be rehabilitated and released.  How ironic that Bob saw, and photographed, a Kit Fox in camp Kofa last week.

Alan chose #9809.  Gorgeous sandstone cliffs surround Kanab in southern Utah.  This shot was taken near Best Friends Animal Sanctuary during August 2015.

Liberalwarrior (aka TreDuece) chose #1367.  Just one of many places to explore in the Kaibab National Forest.  Snake Gulch, don’t let the name scare you away, accesses several native petroglyphs.

Doris chose #9688.  A beautifully colored Water Monitor seen in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Rita chose #1115.  The Colorado River flows under the Navajo Bridges through Marble Canyon on its way to Grand Canyon.  Nice rest stop along SR89A with a possibility of seeing California Condors.

Keith chose #1727.  An infinite view looking south on SR89A below Echo Cliffs on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona.  You know I’m a street photographer because I take pictures while driving, safely.

Sue chose #4508.  Three days before the first photo, caught this big guy lounging along the road during a morning safari ride in Kruger National Park.

Jeff chose #1991, “the year Ukraine became an independent nation.”  The same year I left my husband and became an independent womyn attending Western Washington University and spending outdoor time in Larabee State Park where this selfie was taken, March 1991.

Jodee and Bill chose #1711.  South African Crows look different than the States, yet are just as raucous and devious as ours.  This crow hung out in Monks Cowl camp in the Drakensburg Mountains near where Jo lives.

More shots of celebrating March birthdays.  In 2005 I celebrated with my parents in Texas and the next year Berta and Darlene gave me the Grand Canyon as a present.

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