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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including a lot of Grand Canyon, a bit of South African wildlife, and Cadillac camping in the UP of Michigan.

Gypsy chose #3019 for a past visit to native ruins in Florence and Coolidge, Arizona.  No ruins on this visit to TeTeMuka B&B in South Africa, but lots of birds.  Not sure this is really a Galah Cockatoo as they are pink and gray.  No matter, this was such a fun place to stay.

Jodee and Bill chose #1441, one of eight in a panorama.  From my favorite North Rim viewpoint, Cape Royal provides a panoramic view of Grand Canyon.  Plus to the right of this view, my favorite place for sunset.

Diane and Nigel chose #2608, and saw this North Rim view for sunset during their visit to Grand Canyon.

Sallie and Bill chose #9222.  Another North Rim view this time looking east from the Ken Patrick trail during fall.

Alan chose #2206.  Back to the North Rim’s Grand Lodge end of May, 2015.  Rangers get paid in sunsets.

Cathy chose #5247.  Yet another Grand Canyon view looking South from Crazy Jug Point on the Kaibab National Forest.  I’m guessing she’s been here more than once.  A favorite to watch monsoon skies.

Sherry chose #8288.  Called Mountain Zebra National Park, there’s way more there than zebras.

Rita chose #9210.  Just another pile of rocks you think, but this is at Augrabies Falls National Park where I spent my 60th birthday in South Africa.  I long to return.  Maybe for my 70th?

Jeff chose #2525, “the bus number in the movie Speed and now I have this ear worm ‘In the year 2525, if man s till alive…’”  I’ve not seen the movie but know the song.  Wonder what the diminishing Lake Mead will look like then.  The entire landscape to what is seen of the lake was underwater at one time.  This shot from the Callville campground in February 2016.

Barb chose #7925.  This collared lioness was not shot with my trail cam.  She was a recent release in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, so being monitored.

My choices from September 1974 when my boyfriend and I plus another couple vacationed in the UP Michigan.  We packed for every possible activity, camping and staying in a historic Ore Mining Office conversion in Bessemer, home to the oldest keystone bridge in the USA.  Transportation for four and gear was Mom’s Cadillac.  We loaded the canoe so heavy ended up using the climbing gear to lift the boat and drive the car underneath.  Good times!

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by three readers including flowers, Grand Canyon, and pets.

Gypsy chose #3118, “for a full moon hike day and year.”  I do love the full moon and don’t have a plan for September, yet.  I did get to watch the full moon rise many times at Grand Canyon but not where this cloudy shot was taken from the Grand Lodge.

Diane and Nigel chose #1908.  Some small, unidentified, pink flowers in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa.

Sherry chose #9350.  Beavertail cactus buds and flower with spider taken in Congress, Arizona.

Most recent pets. It’s International Dog Day, don’t tell Sierra.  During the summer of 1997 I began selling at a fleamarket in Carson, Washington.  I also got involved with a man and figured I needed a dog, puppy Carson came into my life.  He outlasted the man and traveled with me for 11 years.  I didn’t figure on another pet after that.  Yet when my best friend died of cancer, her cat owned me.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 13 readers including Southwest red rock, South African wildlife, and friends.

Rita chose #9207, one of two in a panorama.  These ancient dunes turned to stone tell a story over time of changing wind directions that leave behind the lines called bedding planes.  The Wave, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona/Utah border.

Jo chose #1900, the time of late guests arrival.  This, a stream in her nearby Drakensberg Mountains, seen while hiking with her son during my 2010 visit to South Africa.

Sherry chose #8987.  That’s me on the hike to the above Wave.  Then entire landscape is amazing.

Alan and random dot org chose #381.  Me on a another hike.  In November 2010 headed down the South Kaibab Trail to Phantom Ranch, the bottom of Grand Canyon.  Plus that’s the view I was enjoying along the way.

Gypsy chose #3116.  Grand Canyon from the North Rim Lodge.  I believe you can see the trail I was on above, just right of center.

Sallie and Bill chose #7812.  A herd of Buffalo at a waterhole in Addo Elephant National Park.  Not the best shot, but hopefully you can see our Bison, called buffalo, look nothing like these true Buffalo.  Happy Birthday Sallie!

Cathy chose #0004.  While on safari I saw more sunrises than normal for me.  Best time to see wildlife.  This shot from Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Jodee and Bill chose #2516.  A stormy last light and the Vallecito Mountains in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Liberal Warrior chose #1982.  A few days earlier than the above shot, last light on the Santa Rosa Mountains, Anza-Borrego.

Diane and Nigel chose #1308.  Today is Diane’s birthday so her greeting comes from Sasha, a dog she met while visiting the Southwest.  I only wish the two of them could have made it to White Pocket with Sasha.

Barb chose #1717.  A morning view of Grand Canyon from the Transept Trail on the North Rim.

Jennifer chose #0816.  My RV view of Transept Canyon the end of April, 2014.  Yes, that’s spring, and before the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park opens May 15th.

Jeff chose #7772, “what we spent today to fill the RV freezer with Marion’s pizza.”  It must be good and I hope to hear more about those pizzas.  In Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, what’s good is watching wildlife by a waterhole.  In fact these elephants were seen earlier on the same day at the same waterhole as the above pictured Buffalo.

My choices in celebration of Diane’s birthday today, when Nigel and her visited me at Grand Canyon June 2016.  We also went to Lee’s Ferry along the Colorado River.  So glad I met you both.  Happy Birthday my friend!

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I love meeting people in real time, and also online.  That’s why I’m organizing a meetup.  I’m really leaning towards early October on the North Kaibab National Forest, not too far from Grand Canyon.