I’m sure there are a great many better photos than these from this weekend in Redding. I was working, but did find a little time to enjoy what I saw. And there are excellent images at the Redding Airshow website already. A classic Northstate experience. Thank you Redding Exchange Club and all who participated!
Contemplative music video for a morning meditation
Ran across this on You Tube. A prolific poster going by 10zen10 has created a music video with pretty bird images taken by photographer Daniel O’Byrne. It’s set to the music I helped create along with Craig Padilla and Zero Ohms a few years back, a piece called Realm of the Spirit, from the CD Beyond the Portal, released on the Lotuspike label. A nice meditation moment to begin the day today.
Interesting, how these video pieces using our music that turn up, unannounced. Released into the wild, the music finds it’s own path.
Pretty clouds this morning
4 views from the Diestelhorst Bridge
A few spectacular Daylilies
Daylilies do very well in our Redding climate. Karry’s garden includes several varieties of this hardy cultivar. And you see them used in professional landscaping around town. They are at their peak now, but bloom well into Fall. You can propagate them easily, by giving them a healthy thinning now and again. I recall Karry’s mom bringing grocery bags full of her thinnings from her extensive Summit City (now Shasta Lake City) garden, and you see some of their descendants here. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the images as much as I enjoyed taking the photos.
Daylilies in bloom. It’s Really Redding.
Thanks, unknown I-5 driver
I was bringing home a used utility trailer I just bought in Cottonwood. I had barely gotten onto I-5 when a driver in the left lane slowed inexplicably. The passenger window rolled down, and I could barely make out a shouted “flat tire!” Oh.
Yeah, no spare. No fun. At least I would have know what to do if I had got a flat tire, unlike some people who just have no car sense whatsoever. Not that that is a bad thing, but if you’re going to drive a car then having a bit of car knowledge would surely help with things. Of course, there are times when a little bit of car knowledge doesn’t help and you know that you need to go get your car repaired at a garage (just like this arvada car repair place). But that’s just by the by. In this instance I know how to sort out a tire, it just was a pain because I didn’t have a spare. But this tire was a bit worse then I could have imagined though.
Not just flat on the bottom as they say. A few more rotations, and things might have gotten serious on a hot Summer day. My gratitude goes out to the driver of the white car, wherever you are. Paid forward. He certainly saved me that day so I’m very grateful. He probably didn’t even realise how bad it was, just that I had a bit of a flat. Any other sort of flat and I might have been able to pump it up, but this flat was definitely the end of the line. Oh well, no harm was done, except maybe a wasted afternoon.
Wild Iris
Car collides with boat on Keswick Dam Road
May Day images in Redding 2011
This season has proven to be an extraordinary Spring, with an abundance of wildflowers, water in creeks, and birds in the trees. It was a wet end to Winter, but a magic May Day ensues.
Popped my head over the bridge, and spotted these two enjoying the sun by the river.
That reminded me of this image from Redding long ago.
Happy Cows
Happy cattle, anyway.
Well presumably happy, standing there in a meadow of flowers, one achingly beautiful Spring day in Shasta County. Surrounded by bright green oaks and a fabric of clouds, they cluster for company.
I was reminded of a saying by a cattleman I know. “We provide a good life for them, followed by one bad day.” Something like that. This looks like a good day…
Fence to keep me from wandering over to join them in the meadow, to stand and gaze at the rolling waves of golden flowers. Wildflowers, it’s Really Redding.