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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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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including big and small, Grand Canyon, Kanab cemetery, and naked me.

TreDuece received #16 for the number of words in his comment.  This release of smolt (baby salmon) into the Columbia River from the Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery where I worked in 1996.

Diane and NIgel chose #403.  When driving north on SR89A from the Kaibab Plateau, Jacob Lake, or the North Rim Grand Canyon stop at the LeFevre overlook for this magnificent view (better than the image) of the Grand Staircase.

Cathy chose #4921.  The iconic Hopi House designed by Mary Colter on the South Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Doris chose #1898.  Always a treat when a classic car club came to the North Rim, and I saw their classy rides.

Jo chose #4372, the day she was married.  This day I got lucky to catch the last light on the trees, and weather station, I saw from my RV window the 2015 season at the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Sue chose #1206.  The stone temple middle of photo is called Mount Hayden.  Most commonly it is seen from the Pt. Imperial overlook which would be to the far left out of sight.  This angle is from Vista Encantada overlook, a stop on the scenic road to Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Alan and random dot org chose #7157.  Another RV window view, this time while living in Kanab, Utah the winter of 2015/16.

Gypsy chose #529, “for meeting my brother off the Arizona Trail at Vermillion Cliffs.”  This tiny world of moss was seen near the North Rim Lookout Tower along the Arizona Trail.

Rita chose #9002.  Same cemetery as above in Kanab, slightly different angle of view.

Sherry chose #1207.  This Bushbuck stands about three foot, grazing in the Letaba Rest Camp in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Susan chose #1904, “the year my dad was born.”  Saw these sweet little unidentified flowers the day I hiked in the Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa.

Jennifer chose #0932.  Desert Gold carpeted the land during the 2016 Superbloom at Death Valley National Park, California.

Sallie and Bill chose #2762, “for the date in March of their middle son’s birthday.”  Also the day after my birthday, eight years later.  Later is what I think of looking at the lovely rich colors of Autumn Aspen here seen along Hwy67 into the North Rim Grand Canyon.

My choice, sticking with my birthday month theme, from March 1991.  I spent a week with a friend who shares my birth day at another friend’s off-grid cabin in Twisp, Washington and thoroughly enjoyed the outdoor shower with solar heated water.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 14 readers including Grand Canyon like most don’t see, elephants, and the beginning of my birthday month.

Doris chose #8951.  The 2014 location where I lived while working at the North Rim Grand Canyon provided a view from my back windows overlooking Transept Canyon.

Gypsy chose #2017, a “trip to Patagonia and Velvet Elvis.”  The later turns out to be a restaurant with a bent towards gourmet pizza.  This Aspen also shows a bent, trunk that is.  This growth pattern is often caused by the weight of heavy snow on a young sapling.  Saw this particular tree along the Arizona Trail during August 2010.

Sallie and Bill get #70 for the number of words in their last comment.  Me at 2 1/2 and my brother almost ten in 1956, Hinsdale, Illinois.

Jennifer chose #1925.  The Eye of the Needle as seen on my overnight hike in the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa with Jo’s son as my guide.

Cathy chose #6290.  Being she lives kind of close to the North Rim Grand Canyon I’m hoping she’s been there during an inversion.  When the clouds drift below the rim and swirl around temples creating a magical scene I call the breath of the dragon.  Rangers get paid in sunsets, this is overtime.

Wanda chose #4675.  An elephant isn’t always easy to see in the vast landscapes of Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Sherry chose #2262.  I’ve always liked rock built houses, old or new, but this might be extreme.  At Hovenweep National Monument this native ruin is called Eroded Boulder House.

Susan chose #2932.  Yet another look at inversion in Grand Canyon seen from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim.

Sue chose #8240, “for Mo’s birthday this week.”  My birthday’s this month, and this photo was taken in March, 2014 at Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.  Ok, that was a stretch. 

Diane and Nigel chose #2602.  Pretty sure I took this shot because of the yellow flowers lining the road, SR95 East sort of towards Bryce Canyon.  August 2015 I would have been a passenger with Bill driving.  They actually met him during their visit to Grand Canyon.

Jo chose #2698 the reservation number of arriving guests.  Another example of inversion on the same day as Susan’s choice above, this time from the Walhalla overlook.  I am reminded of the low clouds dancing around her nearby Drakensburg Mountains.

Alan and random dot org chose #5410.  Looking up like a tiny creature moving through a drip sand castle.  That’s how I felt in the slot canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.

Jodee and Bill chose #1533.  Just a tease of fall color on the Aspen against the darker evergreens.  Along the road to the Widforss trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jeff chose #529, “to reflect the local diesel price” in Southern California.  Guess I won’t be heading that way soon.  In May 2009, when this shot was taken, diesel averaged 2.227/gal.  I was camped along House Rock Valley Road in southern Utah.

March is my birthday month!  I was born between the grandma’s birthdays, Bea Olmsted and Francis Loomis.  One the 25th and the other 27th.  Mom said she planned it that way.

Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories.  For more of the story just follow the links.  Please join in next week by leaving a number between 0001 and 9999 in your comment.

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For those new to the blog and/or Foto Friday Fun I want to explain how I do this.  I have always been diligent about labeling my photos.  When I scanned prints and started shooting digital I added numbers to the descriptive labels (usually starting over daily or monthly)  Eventually I started using the camera default number along with my label.  That means that a lot of old photos have very low numbers.  Anyway, when you leave a comment with a number, I start with my oldest photos stored on external drives and run a search with your number.  I usually choose the oldest on file that hasn’t been published on the blog already.  Guess I don’t have to explain my complicated system any further.  Needles to say, I am OCD about labeling my photos, amongst other things.