After I did my morning grocery haul - I came home, put everything away we decided to go out to the Dam to take a good look. Beautiful day.
This is the first view of the Shasta Dam as we round the bend of the mountain.
Many are stopped there to take photos and just look.
The surrounding mountains are so pretty this time of the year. I remember when this was all burned out - the year we moved here in 2008 - we had many fires. So it is coming back.
Such rugged beauty.
Before going to the top of the Dam was this sign - from the Pioneer Mothers and Fathers of California.
The loud roar of the water was released into the Sacramento River. It always causes controversy when we have a wet rainy winter - we joyously watch the Lake fill up, then watch the Bureau of Reclamation open the flood gates to let all that precious water (gold) which eventually finds its way to the Pacific Ocean. It seems like such a waste.
On the other hand, they can't just hoard the water in the Dam. It's already been allocated - for flood control, hydroelectricity, agricultural use for our Central Valley farmers, and environmental uses.
Those almond trees take a lot of water!
Good old Mt Shasta is surely looking pretty this morning.
That water is icy cold.
This is one of my favorite views - looking down at the river, as it snakes its way through the mountain valley -
Yesterday across from where we were today, there was a tragic accident.
A rockslide and 2 local children. Needless to say, our community is sick about it. I tossed and turned last night thinking of the parents, knowing what that first night after your child dies, feels like.
No names have been released but God knows. Keep these young families in your prayers.
50 miles north of us, on Presidents Day (Monday) there was a mind-boggling 60-foot high, 3-mile long Avalanche on Mt Shasta. Miraculously there were no injuries. It started at the 12,000-foot level at what is called Avalanche Gulch and traveled down to 7,000 feet elevation.
The above photo was the path of the avalanche.
Laydee -
The results of the biopsy were pretty much the same -
It's a neoplasm tumor with no overt malignant features. Removal is the only way to test it and we're not going to do that, because of the risk.
She's almost 11 years old and still spry - it's hard to believe she is that age because of her activity but we do see the subtle signs of age now and then.
Eagle News
Liberty has laid her third egg. This is a video of Guardian incubating and he looks like such a good proud father.
That's it folks - the happenings around my area -
God Bless,
Debby
