This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including lots of wildlife, places on the Arizona Strip, and little ole me.
Cathy chose #4587. Breath of the dragon. A fog filled view of Grand Canyon typically disappoints visitors to the park. However, when working as a Park Ranger I saw many moods at the canyon and knew the fog would lift eventually. This shot taken from Cape Royal on the North Rim 8-3-14.
Lisa chose #68, “for the number of miles we paddled last week while the wind was blowing against us.” Spike never seemed bothered by wind in his sunken enclosure at the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, California where I was a volunteer animal keeper in 1989. Believe it or not, porcupines have noses soft as velvet.
Jo chose #7870. Maybe she can identify this bird is I saw at Addo Elephant National Park in her homeland of South Africa.
Yogi chose #7975. An attempt at night photography in Yarnell, Arizona. Can you see the crescent moon and Venus over the Weaver Mountains?
Sherry chose #4010, “since I get my second COVID shot in 8 days.” Don’t think these playful zebras and giraffes were running to get a vaccination in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Diane and Nigel chose #204. This might have been my first visit to Zion National Park in 2008 and the shot was taken while on the Riverside Walk along the Virgin River.
Jennifer chose #862. More zebras, getting rather frisky, seen at Kruger National Park, South Africa during my first visit in March 2010.
Rita chose #2218. A colorful sunset over the Weaver Mountains from my Yarnell, Arizona home in 2018.
Doris chose #5000. A city park in Kanab, Utah from when I lived there in 2015.
Sallie and Bill chose #46, “for our oldest great-grandson’s birthday.” It wasn’t my birthday at 1 1/2-years old in 1955.
Jodee and Bill chose #556. This dry wash is the first part of the Wire Pass trail that leads to the Buckskin Gulch Slot Canyon trail in southern Utah from the first time I hiked it in 2009.
Jeff chose #156, “the combined score as Baylor dominated Gonzaga.” Is he talking in an ancient language? LOL! Because these buildings are rather old seen at Lee’s Ferry along the Colorado River in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona. This is where I’d planned to camp last night, but it was full.
My choice was taken recently along Iron Springs Road between Kirkland and Prescott, Arizona. I’ve seen this nest for years but it was the first time I saw a Redtail hawk there.
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I seem to be running behind along my journey northward to Bryce Canyon. Not that I’m late getting back to work, but I drove over five hours yesterday and was too exhausted last night to get this post out. But what the heck, it’s still Friday.
