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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including Grand Canyon, a fun fence, strange coincidence of the 26th of different months over several years, and the 2021 Geogypsy calendar cover shot most chosen by readers.

Yogi and random dot org chose #8260.  Monsoon was my favorite season while working at Grand Canyon National Park as I loved to watch the storms and feel the powerful energy.  I often drove into the Kaibab National Forest to the rim and this shot is from Parissawampitts Point taken 9-26-14.

Jim and Diana chose #25.  A scanned print from a California vacation summer 1971 of Donner Lake as my family returned to Illinois.

Jennifer chose #6129.  Interesting coastal rocks along the Indian Ocean seen from the Suspension Bridge trail in Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa during my visit 2-26-14.

Susie chose #2021, “hoping it will be a better year for all of us.”  I think we’d all agree with that as it’s been feeling like a constant construction zone, certainly worse than pictured along SR89A in northern Arizona taken 9-27-15.

Diane and Nigel chose #210, one of two in a panorama.  Berta and I had so much fun building this fence by attaching the beautiful slab wood to a small, already existing decorative fence.  Then rain soaked the ground and wind blew our fence over but it was repaired.

Jeff chose #1998, “the last time my PADRES won a post season series.”  This shot taken 9-26-10 was the first time I visited the iconic Toroweap view of Grand Canyon and this is right across the chasm from that overlook.

Rita chose #2933.  A mid-June storm in 2015 brought low clouds dancing around Vishnu Temple as seen from Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Lisa chose #9273.  The Wave, ultimate hiking destination by permit only in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.

Sallie and Bill chose #654.  A fun view looking east and north while driving south on SR89A in northern Arizona.  Echo Cliffs to my left and Vermilion Cliffs behind.  Confused yet?

Sherry chose #1031, “the day I leave to get back on the road.”  I know that desire.  The first shot was taken on a 9-20-10 road trip to Bryce Canyon from the Bristlecone Loop trail southward.  I also included the same view taken last Saturday, 10-3-20, with a much reduced view due to smoky haze.

Hard to believe I’ve been blogging for 12 years.  I was working my first season at Grand Canyon and a friend suggested I try blogging to share stories and photos.  I didn’t even know what that meant.  After a little nosing around I published my first blogspot post on 10-08-08.  I joined a couple of memes, where I met some of you.  Then continued to write, at first almost daily and don’t know how I did that.  Though I don’t post nearly as often, I still enjoy sharing stories and photos.  Yet the best part of blogging is you.

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Cover shot taken from February camp at Kofa NWR AZ

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including various shades of red rock in Utah and Arizona, a couple panoramic landscapes above and below ground, and my hiking/travel companion for many years.

Cathy chose #739.  I sometimes camp along Lake Powell with this view near Wahweap Bay not far from Page, Arizona yet across the state line in Utah.

Jo chose #304.  She knows about walking with your dog.  Carson and I explored a lot of trails.  This from our first season at the North Rim Grand Canyon in June 2008.

Yogi, and random dot org, chose #3260.  An amazingly huge view of Canyonlands from Bridger Jack Road before even entering the national park.

Sherry chose #9252.  An exceedingly happy me at The Wave in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona.  Had to hike in Utah to get there.

Susie chose #4867.  A southern Arizona desert landscape near Quartzsite and similar to where she’s lived even further south in Arizona yet very different than her current desert in Saudi Arabia.

Jim and Diana chose #32.  The fish ladder at Spring Creek fish hatchery along the Columbia River in Underwood, Washington.  Took this while working for Fish and Wildlife in 1996.

Diane and Nigel chose #2509, one of five in a panorama.  Mountain Zebra National Park provided some of the largest views in wildlife safari parks in South Africa.

Doris chose #8955.  A Secretary bird, named because the head feathers standing up looks like pencils stuck in a secretary’s hair.  They are funny birds that stomp their insect and lizard food.  Saw them in several South African national parks including this shot in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park during my 2014 visit.

Rita chose #5732, a place she always likes to see.  A May storm in 2016 with virga dropping from the clouds yet not hitting the land as seen from the North Rim Lodge Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Jodee and Bill chose #137, one of five in a panorama in Oregon Caves taken during my 2007 summer season.  Paradise Lost is too tall to even capture in a panorama and is a tall-staired side-trip on the national monuments walking tour.

Jeff chose #2016, “my PADRES last made it to the playoffs 14 years ago.”  Me thinks something isn’t quite right with either the number or the math—but then I am easily confused over sports.  But then the Eye of the Needle might not look quite right either as seen on my Drakensburg hike during my first visit to South Africa in 2010.  (My favorite shot this week.)

Last week’s sunrise visit to Bryce Point with friends brought interesting spots of light on the hoodoos below us.

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 below.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including rocky landscapes in Colorado, Arizona, South Africa and Utah, sunsets, and a waterfall.

Jim and Diana chose #39.  From summer 2005 through an extremely dirty windshield, the San Juan Mountains in Colorado.  One of many places visited nearby when I worked at Mesa Verde National Park.

Lisa chose #1256, a panorama from 9-10-09.  Not sure where I was coming from but this was the view of a stormy sky over the Kaibab Plateau from SR89A.

Yogi and random dot org chose #405.  A hollow rock lined with Chalcedony, often called a Desert Rose, found near Lake Pleasant, Arizona while camping out with my dear friend Berta, who also was a rockhound, for a celebration of my birthday just a few days late 3-29-09.  Yogi understands about long birthday celebrations.

Diane and Nigel chose #1809.  They saw this view of Sky Island and Grand Canyon from the Walhalla overlook while visiting the North Rim.

Cathy chose #1113.  The Vermilion Cliffs as seen from a drive by on SR89A, Arizona.  I’ve driven that stretch of road many times in both directions and still marvel.

Sallie and Bill chose #918 in honor of what would have been her mother’s 110th birthday.  918 was an address of mine as a kid in Illinois.  This waterfall has nothing to do with either.  Saw this, and many other waterfalls, while hiking in Havasu Canyon on the Havasupai Reservation during Spring 2010.

Jo chose #3300.  Saw this dove along a trail while staying at Warmwaterberg Spa in Barrydale, South Africa during my March 2013 visit.  I’m sure she’s seen these in her home country and possibly along the same Route 62 she recommended I drive.

Rita chose #2789, no crawlies.  This rocky outcrop and far view was seen while driving Swartberg Pass in South Africa only days before the previous shot.  Just one of many mountain passes I drove that year.

Sherry chose #347 for the time.  Over many years I took a lot of photos of sunsets in Yarnell Arizona.  The first one taken 12-21-08, and I couldn’t resist the second one with the same number taken 1-26-09.

Doris chose #8953.  An early October 2014 view from my RV parked on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Jeff chose #922, “the first day of autumn, and this covid summer can be left behind.”  I’m sure we can all agree that would be nice.  But these shots of the Grand Staircase Escalante were taken in the spring, both from SR89 in Utah, April westward and May east.  Both with the same number.

Jodee and Bill , definitely explorers, chose #4221.  Last week we talked about going to the coast.  Though we were talking about California, this shot was at West Coast National Park Langebaan South Africa.

My choices taken while roving at Natural Bridge overlook in Bryce Canyon National Park.  I just had to laugh (behind my mask) while taking a candid shot of the visitors standing with their backs to the view.

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 below.

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Hey folks, Saturday September 26th is National Public Lands Day.  Here at Bryce we’ve organized a littler pickup with visitors volunteering to help.  Hope you’ll get out to enjoy public lands near you.  Also, you can attend the virtual California Condor release here https://peregrinefund.org/news-release/saturday-september-26-25th-annual-public-california-condor-release-taking

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