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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 9 images chosen by readers picking a number out of my photo archives.  Real heavy on Arizona choices and nothing wrong with that.

MaryBeth chose #39 because, “My youngest birthday was on the 7th and she is now a grand 39—Jack Benny’s forever age.”  Well I think Tow Mater is another character that will be young forever.

Jo chose #7, “as it was the day the foster cats reached their first owner’s home in SA.”  That is cause for celebration, just like our 4th of July.  Of course at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park we don’t celebrate with fireworks, instead we have a water parade.

Sherry chose #611.  She’s a rather crafty gal and would enjoy watching Ramson, a Hopi glass blower, at the Native American Heritage Days held annually at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.  Maybe she’ll make it there next year towards the beginning of August.

Yogi chose #666, “Just cuz I want to see what the devil’s photo is going to be.”  I am devilishly lucky because I’ve lost and found this diamond ring twice.  Most recently sifted out of the Yarnell fire ashes.  Yogi will appreciate this being a geocacher and he likes scavenger hunts too.

Arija chose #365, “in the hope that I will still be around til then.”  If you’d like to come house sit for me this winter you can be around for some snow instead of your summer Australian heat.

Bibi also chose #666 “for next week, the devil that I am.”  I think the devil made me buy this truck, or at least had something to do with it being a lemon.  Very pretty, uncomfortable ride that cost me a fortune.  Much happier with the Dodge.

Diane chose #699 and she makes and likes jewelry as much as I do.  I think she’ll like this Laramar pendent set in Sterling Silver, a stone found only in the Dominican Republic, although I bought this at Wickenburg’s Gold Rush Days.

Sallie chose #350, “because I so often  like the middle of the road choice.”  No choice but the middle of the road over the Hassayampa River Bridge on the Wagner Road not too far from where I live.

Melissa chose #29 in honor of her “Unk Rees” born on 12/29/29 who lived in Tacoma, WA at the time of Mount Saint Helen’s eruption.  So here’s an image of the volcano taken back in the 90s.

My choice this week is a swallowtail butterfly taken in a friend’s backyard just down the hill from where I live in Congress, Arizona.

Thank you for joining in Foto Friday Fun. I really enjoy digging through my archives and pulling the stories from my memories. To join in the fun for next week leave a number between 1 and 700 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 10 images chosen by readers picking a number out of my photo archives.  Thank you for bringing up some low number memories from a past I’d almost forgotten when I dug into an old external drive.

Arija chose #89, “a number that so often has been or been part of  the number of various places we have lived in.”  This chipmunk must be one of my neighbors as it comes around the feeder where I live.

Yogi chose #2, “just cuz.”  Seems an appropriate choice for this week as the world morns the passing of Nelson Mandela.  This art piece along the Route 67 Art project in Port Elizabeth, South Africa shows the people following Mandela to the first voting line for all that occurred in 1994.

Sherry chose #361.  I know she likes to visit unusual places like the Gold King Mine Ghost Town where this smoke belching dragon does its thing when the old saw mill is cranked up.

Melissa chose #31, “the age my daughter will be if she has her first baby on my brother’s birthday!!”  Way back in 1992, I prayed to survive this hike and make it to my next birthday.  As part of Ranger training staff hiked into the crater of Mount Saint Helens to the then smaller dome.  No real worry about eruption but every time a rock fell we all jumped just a little.  This is a view into the Toutle River valley still looking pretty desolate even 12 years after the mighty eruption.  Plus not the best quality camera at the time.

Jo chose #7 for a day last week when, “something good is supposed to happen in the Hedges household.”  And it did.  Good for me last year when a fellow blogger helped me find an inexpensive solar filter for my camera in time to take photos of the partial, or annular, solar eclipse.  This is just one of the series I took but you can see them all here.

Dell chose #5 and is new here so I welcome him and hope he’ll introduce himself.  Does it look like there’s a problem here?  Back in 1996 major floods occurred on the south side of Mount Saint Helens and all three roads to where I volunteered washed out.  All us volunteers were helicoptered out leaving our vehicles and belongings behind for 2.5 months until this washout over the Lewis River was the first to be repaired.

Diane chose #222 for no reason.  She’s in the UK right now so I know she’s not getting a view like this of Sky Island and the Colorado River from Walhalla overlook.  But that’s OK, because we can only dream of this summer view being the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is closed for the winter.

Bibi chose #66, “what I’ll be next year.”  Long before she was born Mormons traveled through America’s Southwest and built Lee’s Ferry crossing over the Colorado River and lived on their remote Lonely Dell Ranch.  Don’t the colored layers above the cabin look like a birthday cake?

Sallie chose #6, “It is my lucky number.”  Don’t know how lucky it would be to meet up with one of these.  But this porcupine, named Spike, was actually friendly to us animal keepers at the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, California.  He really seemed to like to have his velvet soft nose scratched.

Firefly chose #13, “cause I think the number rocks.  Even if others think its unlucky.”  I’ll bet he’s seen this before but I consider myself very lucky to have seen an elephant taking a dust bath in Kruger National Park South Africa.

My choice is a recent sunset over the Weaver Mountains in Yarnell taken through my RV window.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun includes 7 images chosen by readers picking a number out of my photo archives.

Arija chose #400, “the mid-way number of those you offered.”  I know that Arija loves to watch birds but doesn’t see snow very often.  So here’s a combination of a snowy bird dance in my Yarnell yard December 15, 2012.  I’m hoping Not to see this again this year.  The snow part that is.

Bibi chose #555, “for no reason.”  No reason to turn down this barely singed property deal in the boulders of Glen Ilah Yarnell.  Well, except for having no money.  Plus there’s no utilities. But if you like rocks…

Yogi chose #300, “Because that is the dividing line between good and great hitter’s batting averages in baseball.”  Don’t know about baseball, but when rafting the Colorado River floating under the Navajo Bridge has to be some kind of dividing line.  I haven’t done the upper river, yet, but a fellow Ranger was on one of these boats while I was on the bridge.

Jo chose #799.  Now this shot is from my rafting adventure on the Colorado River.  Even though I’ve crossed the river by foot several times I usually am looking down from the North Rim.  I think being engulfed by the canyon walls while on the river is an experience everyone should do.

Sherry chose #127 and she’s a tree hugger, but maybe not with these charred snags from the 2006 Warm Fire along the road from Jacob Lake to the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  The new saplings are too small to obscure the view of the Vermilion Cliffs to the northeast of the Kaibab Plateau.

Diane chose #111, “for no particular reason.”  So, for no particular reason she gets to see a family of Blue Wildebeest in the morning light at Kruger National Park in South Africa.

MaryBeth chose #900, a Rainbow skink also seen at Kruger National Park where fascinating animals come in all sizes.

My choice this week shows one of my neighbor’s many cats enjoying a scratch on a burnt tree.

Thank you for joining in Foto Friday Fun. I really enjoy digging through my archives and pulling the stories from my memories. To join in the fun for next week leave a number between 1 and 500 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.

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