This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including South Africa, the USA Southwest, and the classiest camp ride ever.
Diane and Nigel chose #1701. I love when this happens as I, and they, met Joan in South Africa after knowing her for many years online. Look closely and you’ll see her sitting in the tall grass when we hiked to Sterkspruit Falls at the feet of the Drakensburg Mountains. Which, by the way, is where blogger Jo (comment below who I also met in South Africa) currently lives.
Rita chose #3839. This view across the Sowats drainage and Esplanade to the Kaibab Plateau was seen from Jumpup Point, the most remote site I’ve been to along the rim of the Grand Canyon.
Jennifer chose #20, for the temperature at -20°C, in Canada. Nowhere near that cold as I remember in December, 1996 at White Tank campground near this granitic arch in Joshua Tree National Park, California.
Doris chose #547. I’ve lost count how many times I saw, and tried to shoot through the windshield, this view north of some of the rock layers of the Grand Staircase in Utah along SR89, still in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona. This route took me from the North Rim of Grand Canyon where I worked to Kanab, Utah the closest place to shop.
Carla chose #1982, one of two in a panorama. So when blogger-Jo’s son (remember from above) guided me on an overnight backpack in March 2010, this was my morning view from camp looking up at the dragon’s teeth of the South African Drakensburg Mountains.
Sallie and Bill chose #1218 for the time of day. You can pick fresh thyme in Yarnell any time of day. It grows everywhere. This small bunch volunteered around the broken edges of chunks of concrete on a hillside next to where I lived. This shot with flowers was taken in late April, 2009.
Jeff chose #1602, “it took me 16:02 to finish this mornings Sudoku.” It took somebody more time than that to figure out and place this Geodetic Survey Marker, #2 out of 3, at one of my favorite camping locations on the Kaibab National Forest, Marble View. I don’t search for these markers but they intrigue me and I always take a photo of them when I trip across them. Maybe that’s early ‘geocaching’? Have to ask Yogi about that.
Yogi let random dot org choose #34. I am so glad to have this scanned photo of a friend from September 1974, the classiest camp ride ever, my Mom’s Caddy. A boyfriend and another couple borrowed the car for a vacation to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. Even with the canoe packed too heavy to lift, we used climbing ropes, the trunk had to be tied shut. It came home with a few new forest racing stripes. Alan, feel free to weigh in on the above geocaching idea.
Jo chose #9000. This colorful sunset is in tribute to her MIL who passed away recently at the age of 90 plus. May she RIP. This March, 2015 view was shot from another blogger friend’s back yard in Chino Valley, Arizona.
Jodee and Bill chose #401. A lovers knot for these two lovely people (and also bloggers I’ve fortunately met). It’s actually part of a dextral Ponderosa Pine seen along the Lava Flow Trail in Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Arizona during an April, 2009 visit.
Melissa chose #6675. Bouldering along the coastal terrain on the Tsitsikamma Waterfall Trail we came upon this shallow cave eroded into the tipped and fractured sedimentary rock. I wish there had been more of those stairs along the rugged way. It was so worth it.
My choice shows some of the Cholla in shadow below the Vulture Mountains near my two-night BLM camp not far from Wickenburg, Arizona. On the ground gap between these Jumping Cholla you’ll see pieces of this spiny cactus just waiting to jump on the unwary passerby. Not me, I use the zoom lens. Due to a lack of strong consistent signal this view delayed publishing at the usual time. Sigh…
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Do you have a favorite this week?