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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 11 readers including cool rock formations, South African wildlife, and a very old car.

Yogi chose #828.  At Bryce we call rocks similar to this hoodoos, but they’re toadstools in the Grand Staircase.

Jim and Diana chose #109.  Used to drive this forest road across Clearwater Valley, and partially through the blast zone, as a shortcut from Windy Ridge when a Ranger at Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument during 1992.

Jo chose #7250.  A scene she may recognize.  In South Africa the clouds pouring over mountains is referred to as a table cloth.  This view of that phenomenon was seen heading south on the N12 to Oudtshoorn.

Yogi’s second choice this week is #821.  The view southeast across Trancept Canyon to temples and beyond was taken from the Widforss Trail on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

Rita chose #7983.  The crescent moon and Venus was seen in Yarnell, 3-21-15.

Jeff chose #1919, “the year the first passenger train arrived in San Diego over the impossible Railroad.”  So even though the image number is 850 this 1919 form of transportation came up.  Saw this Ford Model T in the Galpin Ford showroom in Prescott.

Cathy chose #1104.  Still quite a bit of snow along SR67 to the North Rim Grand Canyon when I drove in 4-30-10.

Diane and Nigel chose #1007.  Animals they’ve seen in southern Africa and I saw in Kruger National Park.

Doris chose #8357.  Saw these South African Shelducks at Mountain Zebra National Park during my 2014 visit.

Sallie and Bill chose #712, “our oldest son’s birthday.”  Flowers always make a nice gift but I don’t know what kind these are.  Berta grew flowers around her house and could name them all.  I’m guessing Sallie may know too.

Sherry chose #7152.  Artistically carved sandstone by the power of water seen in Upper Buckskin Gulch during a crazy warm July hike in Utah.

My choices:  While searching for the above #109 this 1094 from 9-20-10 caught my eye taken in Bryce Canyon.  And you’ve probably seen this version of #7152 from 9-6-14 that always makes me smile.  How can we go wrong with a double rainbow over Roaring Springs Canyon seen from the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including several panoramas, wildflowers, and wildlife in South Africa.

Diane and Nigel chose #307.  Shot these red Paintbrush on the North Rim Grand Canyon in 2008.  Wouldn’t be surprised if these grew where they live in France.

Pat chose #123, “the number of days until the US elections.”  Get out and vote.  Don’t be like this set of two panoramas taken in the Ghost Room at Oregon Caves National Monument.

Cathy chose #5308.  The view west from a favorite campsite and Grand Canyon overlook, Crazy Jug Point on the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona from 7-9-15.

Yogi chose #8771, “which is the nine’s complement of my last week’s number.”  That makes less sense to me than the rock formations along this nameless side canyon near Whitehouse Road in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Sallie and Bill chose #427.  This panorama was taken my first season as a Ranger on the North Rim Grand Canyon only days after opening 5-18-08 from the top of Angels Window.

Jo chose #2800, one of four in a panorama.  Likely she’s crossed Swartberg Pass in her home country of South Africa.  Just one of several mountain passes I drove during my 2013 visit.

Doris chose #8223.  Most likely mother and child, though with elephants the adult could be an Aunt, seen in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa during my 2014 visit.

Rita chose #5555.  You might have to look closely for patches of red maples on Oza Butte as seen from the North Rim Grand Canyon during September 2016.

Jeff chose #1776 for Independence Day.  Can we call this unidentified flower blue with a red stem and white center?  Seen while hiking in the Drakensburg mountains in South Africa 3-15-10.

Sherry chose #8712.  In USA parks we often deal with rodents like squirrels and chipmunks in camp.  In the South African Kgalagadi camp it was Yellow Mongoose playing nearby.

My choice from Independence Day shooting the full moon over the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including panoramas, slot canyons, South Africa, and more.

Jim and Diana chose #123, a panorama from 8-31-07.  While working as a Park Guide at Oregon Caves I lived/hosted the Siskiyou National Forest primitive Cave Creek campground, 18 sites and never half full.  This view of my “yard” from Cave Creek.

Jo chose #2606, a nice entry drive to the Old Mill Lodge where I stayed a night during my second visit to South Africa.  The first visit in 2010 I rode an ostrich in the Outdshoorn area and there was way more to see and do.

Cathy chose #3817.  The end of the road at Jumpup Point felt like a “Thelma and Louise” moment.  But instead of driving off the edge into the Grand Canyon, I set up my tent between those two trees, the only shade around.

Rita chose #4297, one of three in a panorama.  The bar at Gelbek restaurant in West Coast National Park in Langebaan, South Africa felt like a transport back in time.  Instead of ordering a drink I continued to explore this coastal park full of birds and other wildlife.

Yogi chose #1229, another panorama taken 9-10-09.  That’s me on Navajo Bridge above the Colorado River.  I stopped here after exploring Antelope Slot Canyon in Page, Arizona.  (See the pics below to tease him into a Southwest trip now that he’s retired, and after travel is safe once again.)

Jeff chose #629, “the date our kitchen countertops arrive.”  I hope they are put in by now.  5-14-09 was the date of my first hike in a slot canyon, Buckskin Gulch trail winds between walls of water-shaped sandstone.

Diane and Nigel also chose #2606.  A favorite time for shooting, sunset to the far right with Earth Shadows from temples in Grand Canyon from the North Rim.  Rangers get paid in sunsets.

Doris chose #9142, one of six in a panorama of Augrabies Falls, South Africa.

Pat chose #1632, “the 23-hour clock time now here.”  Hope this shot reminds her of the time we experienced this Colorado River view from Walhalla overlook on the North Rim Grand Canyon.

Sherry chose #113, “the number of days I have now been stuck in one place…”  Imagine being stuck in a cliff dwelling that long because you couldn’t climb a ladder to leave.  The Mesa Verde National Park museum displays tools made by the Ancestral Puebloans who lived there in the past.  Under the current circumstances, one might learn a new survival skill.

While searching for your choices I came across some shots taken in Antelope Slot Canyon from my 9-10-09 tour that looked good enough to process and share.  Mother Nature is the best artist and the force of water a powerful medium.

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