Life and all in Redding California
You’ll want to bookmark this fabulous resource! This is the most comprehensive listing I’ve seen of maps and details of the Redding area’s world class system of trails. Click on the image to get to the site, or go to:
Check out these images from the Ski Park Webcam today. Seriously, who’s got a rain dance recipe? It’s impossible to dislike the sunshine and all, but this is getting ridiculous.
This is epic. You may have already seen it, but I just have to curate it here. Nicely done.
The Black Rock Desert playa is almost directly east of Redding. Scroll west and you wind up in Lake Shasta.
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Bats! Subjects of myth and legend. Also, interesting critters that occupy an essential and beneficial niche of our ecosystem. Turtle Bay Museum has this interesting Bat exhibit until Sunday. Flap your mammal wings and get in there before it’s gone.
Our natural science museum, it’s Turtle Bay and Really Redding.
Shot this with my cell phone camera whilst strolling on the Sundial Bridge.
This ultralight pilot soars with the jets, and with the birds, before passing a bit too close to the sun for comfort.
Luckily, his were not waxen wings, as he proceeded to pivot about the Sundial’s graceful pylon.
Fun, fishing, and flights of fancy. Happy 2012 from Really Redding.
Here’s a video I did of this year’s Christmas Party for special needs kids put on by the Shasta Association of Realtors along with the support of the community and local businesses. We hold it at the Elks Club in Redding. 2011 marks the 39th annual party. As usual, a great time was had by all. Watching the video is a nice way to get some holiday cheer today. Our great thanks go out everyone involved. Merry Christmas!
Shasta REALTORS Christmas party for kids 2011 from Skip Murphy on Vimeo.
Here’s a few images of the food and gifts gathered by students and teachers at Shasta Lake School. Needy families are identified, food collected and assembled, and gifts for their kids are fulfilled from a giving tree.
Sometimes it seems the greater community image of our schools is colored by stories in the newspaper about teacher salaries and negotiations, and such. Since most of the local community doesn’t attend school, they may not be aware of all the different good things that go on behind the scenes in our small town, with our small town values.
Thanks, students and staff of Gateway, for the lesson that giving is better than receiving, this season.
I need to say a big thank you to Dr. John Coe. And also to all the extraordinary professionals of Redding’s Mercy Medical Center. In this world, mercy is often in short supply. But at the hospital, staff seems always able to come up with an extra ounce when it’s needed most. Thanks everyone.