The sign says Dry Creek. It’s not.
In a few more days, if the sun comes out this creek will run through verdant green fields blazing with Shasta County wildflowers. This is a stunningly beautiful creek in the Springtime, as it winds down from Jones Valley to Bella Vista. Driving up Dry Creek Road from Highway 299, you catch glimpses of what the valley must have looked like 200 years ago, with laughing creeks splashing over green hill and dale on their way to the Bay. Don’t miss the wildflowers this water year…
Bella vistas in springtime Bella Vista. It’s Really Redding.
Aurora Borealis in time lapse
Gorgeous video of the Aurora Borealis from Norway. Well worth your 2 minutes if you haven’t seen it. Having done some minimal time lapse photography myself, it becomes even more impressive. Every short bit of imagery took an entire evening (in snow) to shoot, This year, old Sol is quite active, so the charged particles are intense. Wow. Kudos to artist Terje Sorgjerd, who used 22,000 photographs to make this stunning video.
The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
From Astronomy Picture of the Day. Not Really Redding, but really beautiful. Really Earth.
A Bench in the Sun at Riverfront Playhouse
We took in some local theater at Riverfront. They had some awesome finger food before the show served up by Jewel’s Catering. And dessert at intermission.
Excellent wine pours by longtime thespian Jet Thomas.
“A Bench in the Sun” is about a couple of grumpy old guys vying for the attention of an aged actress who comes into their lives.
Ha ha! We know they’re old because one of them is reading a newspaper. I found I couldn’t identify with the humor…much.
REALTOR Affiliate night at the Riverfront. This longtime local theater troupe is seeking to raise funds for a new location on Pine Street. Check out this funny show through April 16th, and spend a few dollars towards their new facility. It will be a much nicer place to catch a play. More at their website, RiverfrontPlayhouse.net.
All the world’s a stage; it’s Really Redding.
Boot Hill graveyard…
…became the Buckeye Pioneer Cemetery. A rainy day seems appropriate for a few images.
There’s only this one marker. The names date from the late 1800s. The entire site is just a parcel amongst homes on Irish Road just north of Redding.
Hardscrabble lives came to rest here on Boot Hill. Ghosts in the live oaks…
Heroes of Fukushima
“The good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or the one.”
I’ve been thinking a lot about the heroes of Fukushima Prefecture in their battle to restrain the invisible fire of radiation from the damaged reactors. As of this writing little is known about what is really going on there, except for one thing. The people going in and staying to work on taming the runaway reactors are heroic.
Take a few minutes to read the riveting description of the Chernobyl disaster in Wikipedia. A story worth knowing today. The names of their heroes are posted here. Again, worth reviewing.
Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care costs of the Chernobyl accident. More than fifty deaths are directly attributed to the accident, all among the reactor staff and emergency workers. Estimates of the total number of deaths attributable to the accident vary enormously, from possibly 4,000 to close to a million.
Knowledge is power, against the unseen.
Downwind, it’s Really Redding.
What to do when the gas runs out?
Check out these actual local fuel prices:
Fuel has been going up steadily. Today we hear of riots in Saudi Arabia to add to the Middle East storm brewing. Stocks are in the tank, even if gas isn’t. What if…?
Hey, check out the latest in rail transportation from Japan. The high speed Hayabusa.
You don’t build a life raft after a flood. You plan ahead. This train was terribly expensive, but will serve Japan for generations to come. They planned ahead.
There was a huge earthquake in Japan yesterday. Thousands, perhaps millions of lives were saved by the most strict building code regulations on the planet. They didn’t wait for the 5th strongest earthquake in history. They planned ahead.
Meanwhile back home, we aren’t planning for the coming energy shock. Rail improvements here make no sense. Unless, you know, we as a culture were planning ahead for an unavoidable and abrupt end to our oil addiction, or something. Gosh, we’ll always have airlines, won’t we?
