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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including stormy skies, funny fence, and my favorite South African animal.

Jim and Diana chose #72, “how many days it has been since we arrived in Michigan to our un excavated cabin build site.”  They have come a long ways since then.  So have I since this shot of my 9-year old brother and me at two in 1956.

Cathy chose #0524.  During the February 2016 super bloom at Death Valley storm clouds built over the Badwater Basin but I honestly don’t remember rain falling.

Jennifer chose #7777.  Last light at Grand Canyon lit up the temples and accented the clouds.  #Rangersgetpaidinsunsets

Diane and Nigel chose #207.  I call this the fallen female fence.  Berta and I built a fence, but then the wind blew it over, and it was eventually repaired.  I’ll bet she’s still laughing about this.

Sue chose #116, “our temperature last Sunday in Grants Pass.”  Yea, that’s a heatwave in Oregon.  A much larger wave of heat during the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens left this scene of the upper Clearwater Valley 12 years later when I worked at the National Volcanic Monument in 1992.

Alan chose #6264.  A foggy Grand Canyon view from Cape Royal overlook on the North Rim seen during August 2014 monsoon.

Doris chose #9149.  This shot taken in 2015 would look much different today as Lake Powell is many feet lower and the Navajo Power Plant has been dismantled.

Rita chose #2139, one of two in a rather wonky panorama.  Also taken at a rather unusual place, the Owl House in South Africa.  Read more to understand this artists’ visions working broken glass in concrete.

Sherry chose #7946.  Yes, it’s the back end of an elephant, not a push me pull you.  Addo Elephant National Park is a favorite place to visit in South Africa, especially to see elephants.  However while on safari in any park I saw lots of butts as animals walked away.  My travel companion laughed at all my butt shots but I told her I’d do a complete blog post on butts.  Then turned out I did a post on head shots too.

Jo chose #1796.  I’ve crossed this suspension bridge over Storms River several times when visiting Tsitsikamma National Park along the coast of South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #841.  The sand is fine and lovely at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park near Kanab, Utah.

Jeff chose #4308, the designation date of a Torrey Pine as the first of 13 Heritage trees in the city of Coronado.  He plans to blog about this soon so check him out.  In the meantime, you can see this Speckled Weaver hanging around at Gelbek restaurant looking for food scraps in West Coast National Park, Langebaan South Africa.

I’ve been labeling photos from January 2021 and found this shot I really like and hadn’t shared yet.  Looking down on Quartzsite from a BLM camp along Plomosa Road.

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If you ever see an archived photo that you’d like to see in the next Geogypsy calendar please let me know.

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including Illinois, Oregon, Arizona and South Africa.  Plus seems a reason for coincidence with Berta images as this month marks the third year since her passing.

Doris chose #361.  Not quite the oldest photo as I usually try to choose, but darn close anyway.  And besides this month marks three years since Berta died of brain cancer.  It was a cold December morning when I got a call and Berta whispered, “I have a baby pig in my arms.”  What?

Jo chose #1500, “the time I attend a Zoom meeting today.”  This is from the time I attended my 40th high school reunion in Illinois, and visited my old stomping grounds walking canyons in Starve Rock State Park.

Cathy chose #0482.  Another memory of time spent with Berta this time visiting Bandon in October 2014.  She once lived in Bandon and we were there for an AA convention.

Diane and Nigel chose #2506.  A little history found in my room at the Old Mill Lodge in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.  I spoke to Boy about my search for mountain drives and he suggested the nearby Swartberg Pass Road which I dearly loved.

Jennifer chose #1425.  Being a wildlife lover and photographer I hope she understands about this shot of Baboon scat taken in Kruger National Park, South Africa.  Sure glad you have a great sense of humor Jen.

Rita chose #1099.  From my August 2011 trip of a life-time, rafting on the Colorado River as a National Park employee.

Sherry chose #9820.  Another highlight memory seeing this leopard in Pilanesberg Game Reserve in South Africa.

Lisa chose #328.  In 2009, Berta gave me a bouquet of daffodils for my birthday.  Was such a joy to watch them slowly open over several days.

Alan, a new commenter, chose #718.  I never tire of seeing and photographing the meadows on the North Kaibab National Forest during drives in and out of Grand Canyon National Park over the ten summers I worked at the North Rim.  This is a July 2009 glimpse of the luscious green just outside the park’s entrance station..

Alan and random dot org chose #3735.  A visit to Kidds Beach in South Africa during February 2013.  Been too long since I’ve been to the shore.

Sallie and Bill chose #148. Oh how loved that view, watching wildlife, and listening to Cave Creek burble past camp, container garden with fresh salad every night.  I was a camphostess at Cave Creek campground while working as a Park Ranger at Oregon Caves just two miles apart during the summer of 2007.

Jeff chose #4152, “the number of wildfires CalFire mentioned in their briefing thus far this year.”  Very scary and disturbing.  The Kaibab National Forest, where this one of six in a panorama shot was taken, has closed the forest for recreation to reduce the chances of human caused fires.  Took this shot in July 2014 after leaving Jumpup Point.

Sometimes it’s difficult to pick just one photo from your numbered choices or discover a hidden gem, so I frequently process others.  This #148 brought me back to Ribbon Creek flowing into Bright Angel Canyon during my second rim to rim hike across Grand Canyon in May 2009.

And then labeling photos from March 2020 makes me homesick for the diversity seen in the Sonoran Desert during winter.

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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Thanks for the memories.

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by six readers including lots of blue, and little orange rock too.

Diane and Nigel chose #1806.  A Cape Royal view they saw when visiting the North Rim Grand Canyon but not with the low clouds.  I loved to see during monsoon season.

Alan and random dot org chose #5868, one of a five shot panorama.  The Salton Sea is an unusual place, though great for birding and sunsets.

Cathy chose #0617.  Full moon the night of a lunar eclipse seen from Yarnell, Arizona on April 15th, 2014.

Jeff chose #420, from my last week’s joke about 420.  But driving through the tiny tunnels at Zion National Park is not the time for that.  This shot from 9-21-08, when I had to pay extra to get through.

Rita chose #1133.  Sorry, not a shot from Grand Canyon.  Instead the view south of the San Francisco Peaks on the State Route 89 drive from Grand Canyon to Flagstaff.

Jo chose #2606.  The Coyote and Santa Rose Mountains were my New Year’s day view while camping at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in Caifornia in 2015.

My choice from the archives, 11-1-14, while visiting Bandon, Oregon with Berta, a place she once lived, we were gifted with a rainbow at Facerock Beach.

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.

Do you have a favorite this week?

Apologize if I missed anybody but I am having difficulty getting online, as usual.