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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including real, rock, and metal animals, plus narrow canyons, and cloudy South African mountains.

Diane and Nigel chose #2105.  I had to hunt just a bit for this large rock snake in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California on Christmas day, 2014.

Yogi chose #2026, a two shot panorama.  A summer hike in the South African Drakensberg Mountains brought heavy rain but it was warm enough to be comfortable as long we weren’t hit by lightning.

Lisa chose #1952.  A reverse sunset looking upstream at Tuweep on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Jo and random dot org chose #4235.  A Blue Wildebeest seen in Kruger National Park South Africa.

Jennifer chose #4100.  Seen earlier on the same day as above, not uncommon to catch lions sleeping on the warm pavement in the morning.

Rita chose #1198.  This huge ant hill, about two feet across, in Berta’s driveway in Yarnell, Arizona intrigued me forever.  It even came back after the 2012 fire.  I love to watch ants.  Am I crazy for that?

Sue chose #5921, “for the date of my second COVID shot.”  Being she just visited “Crack in the Ground” in Oregon she might appreciate another crack called Bull Valley Gorge taken along the Skutumpah Road in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Jeff chose 1140, “the time Fran arrives back from Ohio.”  And this shot is the time I put my life in somebody’s driving hands to ride in a dry wash to Antelope Canyon and tour the slot there.

Cathy chose #3406.  A Tapir metal sculpture by Ricardo Breceda at Galleta Meadows in Borrego Springs, California, not far from the first shot of the rock snake, and only one of many sculptures.

Jodee and Bill chose #637.  A delightful hike into Buckskin Gulch slot canyon in southern Utah.  My favorite this week.

Sherry chose 8576.  A view from the South Rim’s Moran Point at Grand Canyon National Park where I spent my birthday in 2015 with a friend.  Not the first time I spent there for a birthday.

Sallie and Bill chose #1230.  From last year, a look across Bryce Canyon’s main amphitheater over the hoodoos towards the high Inspiration Point overlook.

My choice, taken with the new phone, from the town of Panguitch about 30 minutes from Bryce where I went for my second Moderna COVID shot last Monday.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers and is heavy with southern Utah and Bryce Canyon mostly before working there with a little P&S camera.

Sue chose #2045, “the year I will be 100.”  Although she doesn’t expect to get there she’d still be younger than the 200 million year old Vermilion Cliff sandstone at White Pocket.

Cathy chose #6598.  Look closely for the Turkey Vultures eyeballing a road kill deer seen on the North Kaibab National Forest.

Doris chose #1203, “the number of tunes on my IPOD.”  Add a new tune for “Hoodoo you think you are…”  seen from Farview overlook at Bryce Canyon National Park during a September 2010 visit.

Jennifer chose #3100.  From my first visit to Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa during March 2010.

Alan chose #1424.  During the same Bryce Canyon visit as above I hiked the Navajo Loop down the Two Bridges side, seen here.

Diane and Nigel chose #1405.  Also from the Bryce trip above I hiked up the Wall Street side of Navajo Loop trail.

Jo chose #3924.  More Vermilion Cliff sandstone in northern Arizona with an arch.

Jodee and Bill chose #9201.  Looking north past the Chocolate Cliffs to the Vermilion Cliffs, first and second steps to the geologic Grand Staircase, in southern Utah.

Rita chose #4791.  The view of False Bay from my B&B in Glen Cairn.  A delightful place to stay near Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope, Table Mountain, penguins at Boulder Beach, and Cape Town where I flew out at the end of my first trip to South Africa in 2010.

Jeff chose #2000, “the year Salvation Mountain was entered in the Nation Registry as a Folk Art Site.”  I’ve seen Leonard’s painted hillside in Niland, California with more colors than the walls of Grand Canyon as seen here from Toroweap, a place on Jeff’s bucket list.

Sallie and Bill chose #1108.  This eastern view from the 11,000 foot Brian Head overlook near Cedar Breaks National Monument shows the Paunsaugunt Plateau on the horizon.  That’s where Bryce is but on the opposite side of the plateau as seen here.

My choice is the shot I’m finally satisfied with, after many attempts, taken two days ago while Ranger roving at Yovimpa Point in Bryce Canyon National Park.  Something about the curves draws my eye.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including rocky trails, birding, and an unknown pretty flower.

Diane and Nigel chose #705.  A slot canyon on the Wire Pass trail, feels like walking into a crack in the rock.

Jennifer  left a comment last week with 9 words.  A super oldie scanned print from summer 1970 while on a boat ride in Chicago labeled “Jewish Temple”.

Jo chose #3538.  A stormy August 2016 view east of Saddle Mountain from the Point Imperial overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Alan chose #5742.  Gone fishing seems like a good thing to do after retirement, which is recent for Alan.  This taken along the Wild Coast in Port Edward South Africa.

Sallie and Bill left a 129 word comment.  I must have been shooting this Juniper tree while working at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado in 2005.

Rita chose #7732.  Sigh…a favorite view of Grand Canyon from the North Rim taken during August monsoon in 2015.

Sherry chose #6762. Unidentified flowers and succulents along the Waterfall trail in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa during their summer in February 2014.

Jeff chose #415, for this weeks Foto Friday Fun edition.  Thanks for the vote of confidence.  Which is what it took to hike into the Grand Canyon on the South Kaibab trail in November 2010.

Doris chose #6589.  A cormorant swimming in the Indian Ocean at Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa taken the same day as the flowers above.

Sue chose #2021, “just in case” this week’s post goes out.  Sometimes it’s all about the clouds as I’m a nepholographer.

Lisa chose #5051, “if it’s happening.”  While on safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa there are very few places to get out of your vehicle.  Remember there are potentially dangerous lions, leopards, buffalo, elephants, baboons and more.  There are occasional bird hides along water sources where you walk through rather tricky gates and a long fenced area to a building to bird watch.

OK, so I’m addicted to this Foto Friday Fun stuff, the internet, and blogging.  Just had to figure out that from home I can only post in the early morning.  I believe you all had more faith in me than I did myself after last week’s struggles.  So I’ll add my Bryce Canyon choice this week looking down on the Wall Street trail, which is still closed until no more freezing nights—I have faith that will happen—taken from Sunset Point overlook.

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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