Read the Shasta Lake Bulletin

Here’s a hyperlocal publication relevant to the Shasta Lake region.
Shasta Lake Bulletin2

Seen here are both an archived edition and the online version. Click on either to link to their site for the current news.Shasta Lake Bulletin
We keep a link in the sidebar as well. The more you know…

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.
3 Shastas by Skip MurphyBack of Shasta Dam from O'BrienSacramento Canyon from O'BrienProfound views all around us. We need only look. That’s Really Redding.

Houseboats hibernate for Winter

Just a pretty picture from a few days ago at nearby Bridge Bay on Lake Shasta. Like houseboat hibernation. This image is sized for my Desktop background if you click on it.

Houseboat hibernation on Lake Shasta

Astonishing lenticular cloud sunset over Mt Shasta

This was taken yesterday. So achingly beautiful, it brought a tear to my eyes. We live with these natural miracles every day, but it never gets old. Two glowing pink structures in snow and mist above the lake. This photo is my new screen background at 1920 X 1200 pixels, and if you click on it you can get it full size.

Shasta Lenticular Sunset 1920x1200 by Skip Murphy 2012.jpgSuch extraordinary beauty. Well ordinary, actually. It’s Really Redding.

Shasta Dam 1942

Shasta Dam under construction 1942
This is one the very earliest color photographs of the dam, a technological feat for the time. The level of detail in the film seems much finer than typical contemporary digital images. The photography was taken in 1942 while Shasta Dam was still very much under construction. This image is from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection, and is available at the link in high resolution. All this work was taking place in the middle of World War II. It’s fascinating to see. That was a lot of concrete! It was an ambitious project. Not the same angle, and not the same level of detail, but it looks like this 68 years later:
Shasta Dam under construction 1942