Tag: photographs & memories

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including moons at sunset, a leopard in a tree, a place that looks like Bryce, and my Mom and Dad.

Jim and Diana chose #4, VOTE!  My Mom and Dad were celebrating their birthdays, only four days apart at Dianna’s in Chicago Illinois in June 1974.  I have no idea how they ever voted as politics was one of several taboo subjects in my childhood home.

Cathy chose #8967, “for my two favorite drives…”  Both would be taken to visit the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park where this shot of the moon at sunset was taken 10-6-14.

Doris chose #9808.  While on safari one has to look closely in trees for the well camouflaged leopard like this in Pilanesberg Game Reserve in South Africa during my last trip in 2014.

Yogi chose #6645.  I like the shapes of trees even when long dead and the boulders made a nice background along the Hidden Valley trail in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

Rita chose #4323.  Notice the long low cloud hanging over the South Rim of Grand Canyon as seen from the North Rim.

Diane and Nigel chose #2310.  I visited Hovenweep National Monument with Bill—who they’ve met—during a lunar eclipse on 9-27-15.

Susie chose #0489.  Seen in Pilanesberg Game Reserve, this Buffalo and Egret don’t seem to care if it’s Hippo Loop.

Jodee and Bill chose #9421.  I spent my 60th birthday at Augrabies Falls National Park South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #1120.  The view downstream along the Colorado River to Lees Ferry and beyond to the Vermilion Cliffs, Marble Canyon Arizona 4-30-10.

Sherry chose #1029, “the day I finally head south.  First stop, Santee State Park to visit Congaree National Park.”  I’ve already headed south away from Bryce Canyon National Park, which this is not.  Instead it is Cedar Breaks National Monument, same rock.

My choice from Aspen Mirror Lake, similar to the last post.

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April 2021 calendar – Crepuscular rays light up the desert landscape in Congress Arizona

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by eight readers including fall colors, North Kaibab meadows, Grand Canyon, and thankfully no snow yet.

Jim and Diana chose #11, how many days until the election.  VOTE!  This print taken in 1970 was oil stained when I scanned it.  The Chevy Nomad belonged to a high school boyfriend in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Diane and Nigel chose #1610.  A short hike to a beautiful waterfall at the base of the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa.

Cathy chose #1024.  A familiar drive south on SR67 to the North Rim Grand Canyon.  Crane Lake in one of the many meadows on the Kaibab National Forest taken 8-12-09.

Sherry chose #8765.  Not easy to find fall colors and the canyon but I managed on a far shot from the Upper Ken Patrick trail near Point Imperial on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park on 9-30-14.

Rita chose #1564.  It is easy to find fall aspen in an old burn like the Outlet fire from 2000 seen on the scenic drive to Cape Royal on the North Rim.  This window shot taken 9-21-09.

Doris chose #832.  Another meadow shot on the Kaibab with a spring only pond near Bison corner headed south to the North Rim Grand Canyon taken 5-15-09.

Jodee and Bill chose #6201.  Inversion during monsoon August 2014 had clouds swirling around Wotans Throne as see from Cape Royal, the end of the scenic drive on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Yogi chose #7300.  Late light on a stormy monsoon day at Grand Canyon from the lodge veranda.

My choice this week includes fall colors at Bryce Canyon and they are disappearing quickly.  When I leave on Sunday there is a prediction for rain and snow.  Guess I’m getting out just barely in time.  After looking at low nighttime temperatures within a couple hundred mile radius the current plan, which could certainly change, is run to Fredonia about two hours away and stay in a RV park with hookups for heat at least for the first night out, and then take it from there.

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November 2021 – A storm moving in or leaving left half a rainbow gift over the hoodoos Bryce Canyon National Park Utah

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including several firsts, like South Africa, snow Grand Canyon, and desert dreaming.

Susie chose #4857.  A dramatic monsoon storm moving east across Grand Canyon from Crazy Jug Point on the Kaibab National Forest.

Diane and Nigel chose #910.  During my first visit to Kruger National Park in March of 2010 I learned the most commonly seen animal are Impalas, yet I also saw the Big 5.

Jodee and Bill chose #626.  My first visit to Buckskin Gulch slot canyon, and I was absolutely blown away.

Sherry chose #6215.  She’s way more a water baby than I but I do like to hear the crashing waves and Tsitsikamma National Park in South Africa is where I’ve heard them most recently, that was 2-26-14.

Rita chose #7131.  Joshua Tree National Park in California has rounded granite boulders much like where I lived in Yarnell, Arizona.  These were seen along the Barker Dam trail in the former.

Doris chose #591.  One time while driving in the Kaibab National Forest a rock stuck in my Ford truck’s wheel, screeching loudly, and wouldn’t fall out.  I tried all the tricks I knew and finally stopped to let it cool down.  Went for a walk and saw this turkey feather.  Rock finally did fall out but it was many hours later.

Jim and Diana chose #18.  Add ten for the number of inches of snow seen in this shot from my window.  I was a winter volunteer for the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington 1995/96.  Five of us were snowed in at the remote Pine Creek Work Station.  Not so bad until melt and flood followed so we were evacuated.  My first helicopter evacuation.

Yogi chose #2022.  My first visit to Toroweap in 2010 along the remote north-west rim of Grand Canyon with this iconic sunset view upstream above the Colorado River.

Jeff chose #1103.  This snowy view might look like November but was taken the end of April, 2010 of my boss and her rig on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Rita’s number brought up this pretty memory from February, 2017 taken along the Ajo Mountain Road in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.  Hope to see similar landscape this winter.

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Calendar shot for October 2021 – Thors Hammer and hoodoos as the full moon rises through the Earth Shadow from Navajo Loop Trail Bryce Canyon National Park Utah

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