Category: Photography

It’s cloudy here today, but a few days ago I captured this image of Shastina from the northwest while hurtling southbound on Interstate 5, about an hour north of Redding.

Click to enlarge a bit. Shastina is in the foreground, with Mt Shasta beyond her. Shastina sprouts from the flanks of Mt Shasta, and may be the most recently active part of the volcano. The community of Weed lies at her feet.
February is Shasta County Spring, but in the higher elevations and for much of Siskiyou County, it remains Winter. But any time of year, all this beauty and more is just a short drive north from Redding.

I met this owl while blowing leaves off my mom’s back patio. Talk about Angry Birds.
Karry thinks this is a baby Great Horned Owl. Famous for eating skunks. We’ll just leave you be, then. Anger management.

That’s what they call it on TV. I like to think of it as good cloud days. Here’s a couple of images I took yesterday while out in nearby Shasta Lake City.

NASA recently published hi-def imagery of Earth at night. Redding is pointed out below. I was surprised at the brightness of our urban light, from miles above.
Grants Pass, Medford, Klamath Falls. Familiar places, from top to bottom, with Interstate 5 visibly leading down to Sacramento and the Bay Area. Like neurons and ganglia connecting a living planetary nerve system.
Often enough, the space scientists of NASA discover more truth and beauty of our Earth than of the sky. Click on the image below for a full sized view.Visible patterns of our civilization (colonization?). So very interesting to see, and to ponder. The planet lit like an orbiting Christmas Tree. All these human made photons, flowing out into Space.

Presented here with immense gratitude to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Yeah, it is rocket science. It’s Really Redding.

Well, Shasta Lake City. The Silver Dollar beckons all with a welcoming glow. More so recently, since it gets dark so early.
C’mon in. It’s Really Redding. Arright, Really Shasta Lake, but who’s to quibble?
 

Windswept Fall skies offer crystal clarity. The Three Shastas display their majesty with Golden Hour hues.

I don’t recall ever seeing the mountain so barren. Winter storms will likely soon envelop its flanks with a Winter cloak of snow and ice. For now, it’s a pink rock monument to the Fall.
We’ll surely see certain lovely Redding bridge painted in pink light this evening. A fine event. And seen here, a more northern pink glow illuminates a mountain of solitude to punctuate the day. Renewed with each spin of our planet, for those who look. That’s Really Redding Pink.