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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 7 images chosen by readers from my photo archives.  As I just finished labeling over 10,000 photos from three months in South Africa these choices evoke recent memories and call me to return.

Jo chose #9994, the last number in the series.  The camera turned over to 01 while visiting Pilanesberg Game Reserve in South Africa where I saw these zebras.

Elaine chose #621 for “the summer solstice.”  She watched the midnight sun in Alaska that night but her photo is of a different sky phenomenon.  I actually stayed up until midnight photographing the April 15th lunar eclipse from Yarnell, Arizona.

Bo chose #4157, “spells dog in numbers.”  And she just adopted a dog which is very cool.  Instead of a dog her photo shows an alert mother Kudu with her youngster at Kruger National Park, South Africa.  Check out her Big ears all tuned in.

Sherry chose #234.  There is a small facility In Pilanesberg Game Reserve with a restaurant where we frequently ate breakfast, a small shop where we even more frequently bought Fruttare Passion Fruit flavor (frozen on a stick), and most important a bathroom.  A salt lick has been placed not far from the back deck which entices a variety of animals and provides a show for visitors.  With such long legs and neck the giraffe is put in a vulnerable position here and when drinking water.

Yogi chose #550 for “how many miles we drove yesterday.”  He and Sweetie were beginning their vacation.  I saw these Impalas from camp at Roodeplaat Dam at the end of my three month vacation in South Africa.

MaryBeth chose #80, “My secret.”  So now I’m curious as to what is her secret.  I was also curious about this dragon fly seen on the roof of a bird hide in Pilanesburg Game Reserve, South Africa.

Jonker chose #6653 which is a tease for him to hike the Waterfall Trail at Tsitsikamma National Park not far from his Port Elizabeth home in South Africa.

My choice this busy week of Star Party on the North Rim is astronomer Lori Prause’s introduction slide and she took us on an excellent adventure around the solar system.  Most of the nights have been clear and perfect for star gazing which I haven’t done yet.  But I’ve been taking photos of presenters every night and planned to visit the telescopes last night but it turned cloudy and windy.  Hoping to get lucky tonight as I don’t have to work tomorrow and could stay up late.  Plus I’d like to try some night shots.

Thank you for joining in Foto Friday Fun where readers choose a number from my archives and I share the corresponding photo and a story.   To join in the fun for
next week leave a number between 01 and 9993 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.

Do you have a favorite from this week?

Being two months behind on labeling photos I continue to post every 100th image on the Geogypsy Facebook page where you can follow along.

Capturing the present for future memories of the past

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 6 images chosen by readers from my photo archives.  I love sharing these memories as photos are drawn up from my past and will keep trying to post as I struggle with intermittent internet connection.

Jo chose #2014, “which is the next time there is a Friday 13th AND a full moon on the same day!”  The next photo may have been a little more appropriate for her but instead it’s this unidentified plant seen while hiking on the Arizona Trail.  I really like how the sunshine highlights the fuzzy leaves and unusual colored pods.

MaryBeth chose #555 because “I like 5’s.”     Do you think there’s 1/5 missing from the sun in this shot of the annular eclipse from May 2012?

Yogi chose #2014, “cuz that is where we are.”  Hiking in the Drakensburg Mountains, South Africa is where I was in 2010 and after getting soaked in a down pour I better understood why everything looks like a carpet of green.

Elaine chose #1020, my location in fall of 2011 as I prepared to walk the labyrinth at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.

Diane chose #2356.  Sure hope she’s getting more interesting photos than this while traveling around Spain and Portugal.  This fuzzy whatever it is on an unidentified plant caught my eye during a September 2010 walk to the rim for sunset at Toroweap, Grand Canyon National Park.

Jonker chose #9995, “just to see what the last photo in the grouping is.”  As the camera’s numbering was about to turn over at Pilanesburg Game Reserve South Africa I caught this Zebra trying to hide behind the tall grass.  (Note, the highest number has now dropped by one.)

My choice this week as sunset ended the work day walking the Bright Angel Point trail and hoping this ‘touron’ (tourist + moron) didn’t fall off the rocks with friends taking photos.  I recommended they attend that night’s evening program called “Death in the Canyon” when I walked below their perilous view point.

Thank you for joining in Foto Friday Fun where readers choose a number from my archives and I share the corresponding photo and a story.   To join in the fun for
next week leave a number between 01 and 9994 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.

Do you have a favorite from this week?

I have so many photos to share from this recent journey in South Africa.  So as I label them I’ll post every 100th image on the Geogypsy Facebook page where you can follow along.

Capturing the present for future memories of the past

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 7 images chosen by readers from my photo archives.  I love sharing these memories as photos are drawn up from my past.

Diane chose #356 and she is traveling around Spain and Portugal until July so may not see this for a while.  This National Park Service raft on the Colorado River held a fellow Ranger who I’d dropped off at the Lee’s Ferry launch site then hurried to Navajo Bridge to get a shot of him going down river through Marble Canyon.  Although I longed to be on this trip I have fond memories of rafting the lower Colorado the previous year.

Sherry chose #7778 and being she liked last weeks photo of elephants at Addo Elephant National Park this time she gets elephants and warthogs.  Someday I hope to help her fulfill her dream of sitting for days and weeks watching elephants.

Bo chose #01 to “start at the very beginning.”  I thought about showing her my newborn photo but instead she ends up with a spring view of my wheelestate with Carson who loved to play in the snow at Oregon Caves National Monument.

Jo chose #1305 which may remind her of Golden Gate Highlands not far from her South African home.  But these sandstone bluffs are in Utah’s Cottonwood Canyon in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

Yogi chose #59, “cuz that is my age.”  He is one spirited guy so should like this image of Spirit Lake from when I worked at Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument in Washington.

Elaine chose #1024  which used to be the CB radio ‘10’ code for location.  Everything was right about this location for a distant view across Kanab canyon while visiting Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, an absolutely awesome facility.

Jonker chose #303.  In South Africa where he lives there are some very interesting shaped trees like the Quiver Tree, but I’ll bet he hasn’t seen anything like the Ponderosa Pine, as we call it, Candelabra tree at the North Rim.  Ponderosa Pines are usually one trunk, maybe with a ‘Y’ split typically caused by a lightning strike.  My theory on this candelabra is the side branches all wanted to be a trunk.  A panorama was needed to include at least 100 feet of this giant and it turned out a little distorted.

My choice this week from a recent trip to Zion National Park with Bibi who visited me at the North Rim last week.  Us fellow bloggers clicked right away and had a great time touring Grand Canyon and Zion.  Plus she didn’t even complain about sleeping on an airbed in my RV.

Thank you for joining in Foto Friday Fun where readers choose a number from my archives and I share the corresponding photo and a story.   To join in the fun for
next week leave a number between 01 and 9995 in a comment and maybe see your chosen image next week.

Do you have a favorite from this week?

I have so many photos to share from this recent journey in South Africa.  So as I label them I’ll post every 100th image on the Geogypsy Facebook page where you can follow along.

Capturing the present for future memories of the past