This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including a variety of hooved animals, some bones and a snowed in kitty.

Diane and Nigel chose #1502, one of four in a panorama.  Cape Royal overlook is one of my favorite North Rim locations for sunset at Grand Canyon.  Lovely when the last light shines on Wotan’s Throne.

Jo chose #66, “the age I turned on Wednesday.”  Happy belated birthday from the summer of 1992 when I worked at Mount St Helens.  Twelve years after the volcanic eruption life grew among the blown down trees along Meta Lake.

Rita chose #8779.  Hiked this dry wash into a nameless canyon off the Whitehouse Road in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument southern Utah.

Lisa chose #3445.  Saw more than birds from the Mfazana bird hide at Cape Vidal iSimangaliso Wetland Park in South Africa.  The Duikers along the shore are small antelopes.

Jennifer chose #1923.  A soft golden sunrise over the Indian Ocean at Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa.

George chose #0214.  Note the bit of snow in my truck parked in front of the rental cabins before the North Rim was open in April 2015.

Jeff chose #1094, “to represent the record setting 10.94 inches of rain Palomar Mountain received in a 48 hour period.”    Looks like about 10.94 zebras crossing the road in Kruger National Park, South Africa.  This was my first time visiting the park in 2010 and we were rushing to return to camp before the gates closed at sunset.

Kathy chose #1121.  This is how the day began from the previous photo at sunrise seeing Waterbucks.

Yogi chose #1612.  Some kind of flower head gone to seed at the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Jodee and Bill chose #4120, one of two in a panorama.  Yes, those are bones, from an excavation site at Fossil Park in Langebann South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose 3.  Meet Aces, my 18-year old Arabian taken in Wenatchee, Washington in 1987.  My husband had a big Palamino and my step-son a one-year old Paint.

Gail chose #5147.  Mom and a young Waterbuck, another antelope seen in Kruger National Park.

Mary Jo chose #520, “the month and year I hope to retire and get on the road!”  I hope you’ll have the kind of rig needed to take the House Rock Valley Road seen here headed south from my camp at sunset in southern Utah.  The next day I drove further and hiked Wire Pass to Buckskin Gulch.

My choice this week titled, She asked to go out.  But then demanded to come back in.  Snow began about 10pm Wednesday and continued through Thursday dropping an unusual 16 inches in Yarnell.  It’s suppose to continue through Friday.  I barely got farther past the door than Sierra and then only to hang the hummingbird feeder.  The couple of Anna’s hummingbirds perched nearby and ate all day.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by six readers including several blasts from the past.

Yogi chose #2222.  Grand Canyon National Park offers some of the most amazing dark skies and every year has a Star Party in June.  On the North Rim at least a dozen amateur astronomers donate their time and set up telescopes on the Lodge verandah for a week.

I choose 22 from his number, a lousy quality scanned from print image from the summer of 1971.  Me with two cousins in front of a restaurant shortly before their parents put me on a plane, my first ever flight, to Sacramento where my grandparents lived and parents were visiting.  I thought I was so cool at age 16, in leather hotpants, boots and too tight sweater, and was sure I’d be served a cocktail.  Didn’t happen.  Instead the 12-year old sitting next to me reassured me while landing in San Francisco when I was sure we’d land in the bay.

Jeff chose #1224, “the Christmas Eve in 1775 Padre Font observed the view from the point that would bear his name, noting in his diary “the sweepings of the earth.”  This is one image from a six shot panorama from a viewpoint not in Anza-Borrego where the Padre name comes from.  This is instead from Sunset View in Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah where there could be more “sweepings of the earth” in a different color.

Diane and Nigel chose #902.  They drove by the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park on the way to Bryce after their visit to me and the North Rim.

I choose the 02 from their number.  Another old scanned print from the summer of 1970 of me in the ‘please don’t take my picture’ look.

Jodee and Bill chose #201.  The view up from the bottom of Grand Canyon on the River trail was rather intimidating on my first rim to rim hike in 2008.  It was Cinco de Mayo and I had nine miles to go up 5000 feet.  My mantra for the last mile was “crusty, salty, margarita…” and then I was too exhausted to drink when I got to the top.

I chose 01 from their number, another scanned print.  My Mom and Dad’s birthdays were three days apart in June.  So in 1974 I took them to Diannas Greek restaurant in Chicago to celebrate.  None of us went to the city much, them less than me.  Dad drove his company Cadillac with me and the current boyfriend Kim and met another couple there.  Had to leave the car keys with the parking lot attendant and Dad was nervous about that.  Dinner at Diannas (sadly closed now) was an all evening event.  Even with reservations there was always at least a 30 minuet wait in the bar.  Now I don’t drink Ouzo but knew my folks would like it and they did.  We all got pretty drunk and by the time we left there were only two cars in the parking lot, no attendant, but Dad’s keys hung on the hook.  He drove out of the lot onto a one-way street with Mom yelling at him and finally got onto the freeway for home in the suburbs.  He had to pull over once for me to get out of the car and puke.  OMG, what a night to remember.

Sue chose #4315, “sorta when we got Mattie.”  This is when I sorta got a shot of a Weaver on its nest while visiting West Coast National Park in South Africa.

I chose #15 from her number for yet another scanned print from 1974.  A camping trip with a boyfriend and another couple to the Porcupine Mountains in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan.  While cruising backroad in my Mom’s Cadillac we came across this uninhabited log cabin.

Sallie and Bill chose #733.  Hybrid cattle/bison grazing on a meadow in the Kaibab National Forest near the entrance to the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

I chose #33 from their number for a final scanned print of Gracie, a bobcat born in captivity at the California Living Museum.  I took this shot when I volunteered as an animal keeper while living in Bakersfield during 1989.

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