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Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday celebration at Moseley Family Cellars

Skip@RR — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:30:48 +0000

Yesterday evening, Erin and her friends attended the Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday celebration at Moseley Family Cellars, at their location at 1300 Market Streeet in Redding.

Celebrants partook of Jambalaya, King’s Cake, and other traditional Mardi Gras foods, paired with Moseley’s Chardonnay and Zinfindel. And served with New Orleans style jazz and zydeco in the downtown Redding tasting room.

“Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler” (Let the good times roll!)

Aaron Rader, Erin Murphy, Mimi Moseley, and Marty Moseley celebrate in Redding

Joe Baker gets the baby in the cake.

If you can’t actually be in New Orleans, wine tasting in Downtown Redding offers an alternative. Moseley Family Cellars is located across from Old City Hall Downtown, and can be reached at (530) 605 4222.

LED suited snowboarder

Skip@RR — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:54:14 +0000

You may have seen it, but I had to share it here. It’s beautiful.

Glowing Man HD from Jacob Sutton on Vimeo.

The Ski Park looks pretty nice today, although there is no night skiing tonight. Had to post this webcam snap to make up for the drier one I posted earlier in the year. This looks like good Spring skiing.

And here’s a recent terrain park video from earlier in February:

Pleasant winter days in Redding, and this awesome Ski Park is just about an hour away. That’s Really Redding.

Video of a quick motorcycle ride up Buckhorn

Skip@RR — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:07:46 +0000

Ran across this interesting video the other day. Highway 299 is the road from Redding to the coast. The Buckhorn Summit is characterized by some tight corners along the mountainside. This rider strapped a video camera to his bike, and went for a fast ride.

For years, I drove this road weekly. Going back to when there were one-lane bridges in Trinity County on 299. The road is much better now, but Buckhorn can be a challenge. Before you try a fast ride, just be aware that the road is particularly unforgiving. Misjudged corners can easily become fatal errors. Not only that, but you never know who, or what, you’ll find in your lane as you go round. You feel lucky?

Catch Redding’s Hollow Lane at Bombay’s tonight at 8 -video

Skip@RR — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:38:51 +0000

I’ve posted about this Redding band last year. They’re playing out tonight at Bombay’s, so go support a local band working it. Here’s a recent video. Tight tight tight:

Subway style highway graphic puts Redding on the map.

Skip@RR — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:31 +0000

Click on the Info button to enlarge the map. An ingenious and useful graphic design for visualizing getting around the country.

From Redding, it’s an easy hop on the Green Line to the Red Line, and then a straight shot to either San Francisco or New York. Or stay on the Green Line for either San Diego or Seattle. Nice.

Brilliant design work by Cameron Booth. Thanks for putting Redding on the map.

Redding connection to Vostok

Skip@RR — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:39:02 +0000

Redding musician Craig Padilla recorded lovely, evocative, longform organic/electronic music in his studio on West Street in Redding. Vostok was one of his major works. It went on to become his highly regarded release on the artist-run Spotted Peccary label. Lately, Vostok itself has been in the news.

You can listen to some of Vostok at the link. Hard to believe it was 10 years ago!

I was teasing Craig that the low droning sound that is heard on the recording was only Russians drilling on orders from Vladimir Putin to get him a really cold glass of water.

Look up

Skip@RR — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:24:25 +0000

Dancing clouds. Took these shots yesterday as today’s light rain front moved in.

Sometimes you look up and realize there’s a show going on.

Like somebody fingerpainting on the deep blue skies of Redding.

We must have been keeping Shasta County a secret

Skip@RR — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:20:22 +0000

Watch this impressive video about Shasta County from the EDC.

REALLY nice production. I guess our secret is out now…

The Buddha lamp

Skip@RR — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:54:51 +0000

This lamp was once the valued possession of my now departed mother-in-law. She’s gone, but the lamp remains.

It’s been on a journey, as various relatives tried to find a place for it. None seem content with it. Now it’s at my house.

I don’t believe I’ve seen other religious icons made into light fixtures. The Buddha seems to have taken the transformation in stride. Still, it’s certainly not very dignified.

Nobody seems to want the lamp, yet we hang on to it for purely sentimental reasons.

Ironically, Buddhists have something important to say about that kind of attachment. From Wikipedia: “The Three Marks of Existence are impermanence, suffering, and not-self. The doctrine asserts that because things are impermanent, attachment to them is futile and leads to suffering.”

Admittedly, the human suffering here is insignificant. But there it is. We either suffer with the Buddha lamp, or suffer with idea of discarding grandma’s parlor light from the house in Summit City. And along with it, a part of her in our memory. Our attachment to the impermanent is the source of the anxiety.

And so the Buddha lamp offers illumination, with both warm light and insight.

The one that got away

Skip@RR — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:54:11 +0000

Gathered a few images of this fisherman just upstream of the Diestlehorst Pedestrian Bridge yesterday. The fish got away, but not completely. Not from my lens.

Gone. That’s how it goes. Still, not such a bad way to spend a February Saturday afternoon in Downtown Redding.

Compatriot fish looks on, directly below the Diestlehorst. Free Winter entertainment for everyone Downtown. That’s Really Redding.