Tag: photographs & memories

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including Grand Canyon monsoon moods, Southwest colors, Rhino dung, and me.

Jo chose #8145.  Though this shot is from 9-26-14, the colors recently looked like this on the Kaibab National Forest in northern Arizona.  I love to see my autumn as I watch her South African Spring.

Cathy chose #1492.  Yes, I tend to take photos of everything, including Rhinoceros dung complete with Dung Beetles as seen on my first visit to Kruger National Park, South Africa.

TreDeuce inadvertently chose #1953 in his last comment.  The sandstone formations at White Pocket swirl and pillow in shades of iron oxide.

Jodee and Bill chose #1151.  A closeup of the salt seen at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park.

Diane and Nigel chose #1510.  Ranger Gaelyn in 2009, my second season working at Grand Canyon where Cape Royal became a favorite place to watch sunset.

Sue chose #1987, “the year I mapped Hells Canyon along the Snake River.”  This shot of my horse Aces taken in 1987 when living in Wenatchee, Washington.

Gypsy chose #5512, the date she met her brother along the Arizona Trail.  This is from the date (2-22-14) I woke up early enough to catch a sunrise over the Indian Ocean right next to camp in Scottburgh, South Africa.

Alan chose #6209.  He’s been following my blog so long I think he’s seen Grand Canyon in as many moods as I did over ten summer seasons.  My favorite days during monsoon when the clouds dance around like this shot of Wotan’s Throne seen from Cape Royal on the North Rim.  My second favorite this week.

Sherry chose #4861, “the temperature outside and inside when I woke up this morning.”  Hopefully that didn’t include rain which was coming at my Crazy Jug Point camp with another mood over Grand Canyon.  My favorite.

Rita chose #1042.  Lots of lush greens left even in early November just outside the Oregon Aquarium in Newport Beach.  Best memory.

My choices from a Summer of fun in 1971.  I’d have one more year of high school driving my 1965 Mustang convertible.  I knew that carefree youth would soon be over so spent many days at a friend’s private lake in Illinois.  Went on vacation with my family to visit cousins in southern California and we played in the mountains, and grandparents in Sacramento where I spent a lot of time in the pool.  My boyfriend taught me to ride a motorcycle and my folks were not happy about it.  Oh well.

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February’s photo for the 2022 calendar, watching sunrise over the Kofa Mountains.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including unusual sandstone formations, an old camp trip, and lots of lions.

Sue chose #1002, “for the day we returned home.”  This was the first day I visited Kruger National Park, and the first day I saw lions.  These two brothers aren’t quite full grown as seen by the lack of a huge mane.  South Africa 3-8-2010.

Jeff chose #1023, “for Borrego Days beginning October 23rd.”  One of the young males from above.

Alan chose #5120.  An amazing sandstone formation lithified from ancient sand dunes seen while hiking upper Buckskin Canyon in southern Utah.

Diane and Nigel chose #810.  They may have seen this balancing rock as we drove by Cliff Dwellers between the North Rim Grand Canyon and Lee’s Ferry when they visited northern Arizona.

Cathy chose #1014.  Same pride of lions as above but more of the family.

Rita chose #88.  The inside of a rebuilt kiva at Aztec National Monument in New Mexico visited in 2005.

Sherry chose #1625.  An unknown mushroom seen along the Widforss trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jodee and Bill chose #1816, one of two in a panorama.  These sandstone cliffs were seen while hiking in the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa in 2010.

Jo chose #9564.  The day after closing the lodge to guests on the North Rim all the furniture stacked in the auditorium for winter.  Kind of sad.

My choices from a road-trip adventure in October 1996 camping along the Snake River in Idaho.  Different truck and camper, younger me, and note those fuel prices.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including stained glass, slot canyons, and ancient rock.

Cathy chose #3476.   A giant metal sculpture dragon at Galleta Meadows by Ricardo Breceda in Borrego Springs, California.

Alan chose #8191.  A short but sweet slot canyon along the White Domes Trail at Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.

Sue chose #29 for the morning temperature in Winnemucca last week.  Must have been warmer than that with butterflies around, though these are some of my earliest stained glass projects in 1980.

Gypsy chose #5420, “date of move to my current abode.”  This slot canyon was visited when my camper abode was in Anza Borrego Desert State Park in California.  Note the boulder wedged in at the top.

Diane and Nigel chose #110.  An ancient Puebloan basket in the museum at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado from when I worked there in 2005.

Rita chose #88.  More stained glass now from 1987 when I was teaching the craft in Wenatchee, Washington.

Sherry chose #605.  I love the shape of skeletal trees.  This one seen along Bright Angel Point trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jennifer got #11 for the number of words in her last week’s comment.  Yet another stained glass piece I designed and built in 1980, my ex-husband made the wooden frame.

Jeff chose #672, “for the 6.72 inch shortfall” of San Diego’s water year that just ended.  Don’t see much water in southern Utah but that’s how Buckskin Gulch slot canyon formed from flowing water.

Jo chose #9576.  Most amazing sandstone features seen along the hike to the Wave.

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