Aaron Rader of Rader Excavating is a big guy for a dance partner. Watch him learn the dance moves from Monica Fisher that he’ll need to win the competition at this year’s Dancing With the Stars Shasta County Style benefit for the Shasta Women’s Refuge.
Aaron is my son in law. Last year his wife, my daughter and Broker at The Address Realty, Erin Rader, narrowly missed winning the big dance competition prize. Aaron volunteered this year to bring home the win for the family. Obviously our community is the big winner. Help Aaron raise the money and win with your encouragement. He and Monica are working hard. Now it’s your turn!
Shasta Living Streets celebrates on Park Marina Drive
We really enjoyed pedaling around the Park Marina area with no cars around today, courtesy of ShastaLivingStreets.org and Rader Traffic Control. The neighborhood presents an entirely different perspective by bike.
I’ve written about this subject before, here. There is a Park Marina vision. I didn’t make this up.
For now, I’m just sorry about it. Just moping about a vision unrealized, on the one day a year you can almost taste it. Just for a day.
We now return you to your previously scheduled automotive purgatory.
Cliff diving, Shasta County Style
Some familiar local landmarks seen, though I’d not jump. Would you? With thanks to blogger Marc Beauchamp for bringing this video to my attention.
Water features and gravity just mutually attract. It’s Really Redding.
50 years of drag racing Redding style 1963-2013, continues tonight!
Its a picture perfect afternoon and evening for racing at Redding Dragstrip! Check out how much has changed over 50 years with these two videos. This one was recorded last night, Friday April 19. Click and switch to HD.
And this one below courtesy of Redding’s Larry Sparman, was recorded in 1963. Filmed in Sparmascope!
Come on out to the Redding Dragstrip for more racing action tonight. It’s Really Redding.
Come out the Redding Dragstrip this weekend!
Car Show, Swap Meet, and Street Legal Racing
Growing California larger instead of splitting it north and south
There’s been talk (again) of splitting California in two, north and south. What if a better idea is to grow California into a larger nation/state instead? Would the trade-offs inherent in becoming a larger western state be offset by the value of losing the irrelevant influences of Washington DC and New York? According to this article in FastCompany, natural borders can be plotted by tracking the mobility of money.
The article below uses complex computational models to plot the borders.
Wheres George – The Structure of Borders in a Small World
California, one of the 8 States of America.
Redding sign waver rocks Four Corners
Shasta Dam, front and back
2 views of the dam and lake. With a gentle Spring rain filling our lovely lake today, I thought I’d post this view from the overlook, and then from O’Brien. Both seen in each other’s backgrounds.
Precious water from an abundant Earth. Click to slightly enlarge.
Profound views all around us. We need only look. That’s Really Redding.
Uncommon view of Redding from the West Hills
Out showing a home in the west hills looking over a Spring cloud Redding evening skyline lends an uncommon perspective to otherwise familiar landmarks. From here, the Diestlehorst, Rail Trestle, and Sundial bridges become neighbors. Click to enlarge a bit.
Below we see Highway 44 going east, with Shasta Regional Medical Center in the foreground, and leading off to big-boxville.
Below, a view of Greenstone Place from on a hill in west Redding. A lovely neighborhood of gracious homes framed in green hills and red cliffs on a warm Spring evening.
Even commonplace sights are all extraordinary in our town. It’s Really Redding.