Sights seen here and there

I've gotten into a closed-road/phone-less routine, as I try to stay out the the road construction crew's way, but at least we have mail, and electricity, and friends to talk with, and sights to see.  I've done a couple of jaunts to Quincy to lunch with Sara, Kristine, and Kinley, and to play Quirkle with Sara and to do errands.   I had Jeffery home for the President's Day Weekend, which was brief but wonderful. I've also just returned from a road trip up to see Mt. Shasta and all that lies between here and there.  A few days of sunshine and an adventure always heal and enliven, eh?

The rock piles in the Serpentine section of the canyon await placement.

You can see the high-water line in this photo from upstream of  Hot Springs.

I am going down to get Jeffery in Sacramento.  I've gotten used to the construction zones, like this one below Storrie

The Garden Hwy is a levee road, and you usually can't see the river like this.  Pray the levee doesn't burst, eh?

The front part of this photo is the Sacramento River, which is huge now, but beyond the tree line is the Flood Plain, which is now covered, too.

I've got Jeffery, and we're headed home on the Garden Hwy.  This parking lot is flooded big time.

One of the houses on the Garden Hwy.  See where their dock is?  

Another photographable flooded house.  

Again, it's so weird to see so much water here!

Jeffery and the river boat.

This resort got hit hard.  See the boat-slips?

The R.V. park is inundated, too

Hmm.  How will they repair the damage when their damage-repairers are flooded?

Oroville Lake

Jeffery looks at Jackass Creek from the even more damaged bridge

Looking down the 3-road-level slide, you can see what 5 or 6 switchback sections?

Burrito Creek still hasn't eaten the road, but to make sure, Jeffery did some debris removal from the culvert.

Me on the 2nd-level of the 3-road-level slide.

Taking Jeffery back to the Sacramento Airport.

Our battery and alternator went out on Jarbo Gap, but we made it (with no headlights, windshield wipers or defroster) to Yankee Pines Hardware.  Jeffery ended up getting a rental car in Oroville to make his flight - which he did! - while I got the car fixed and went home.

Sunshine on Bald Eagle Mountian and the Rock Creek Dam drum-gate mist.

Sunshine at Caribou/Howell's Road.

I take photos while I'm driving, so very few come out well; but this one gives you the feeling of travelling in a work zone.

Coming home from Quincy, you have to get through this mud slide at Jack's Place

Travelling with the Trucks is what I called my trip up to Mt. Shasta, since Hwy 70, 99, and 5 are all trucker's routes and work places being repaired.  This photo is from down around the Butte/Plumas County line.

Ahhhhh!  Sunshine, flowering trees, green grass; and the Road ahead!

Shasta Lake is full again!!!

The peak of Mt. Shasta can be just seen between the clouds from the Dunsmuir Vista Point.

Mt. Shasta is right behind the high school.  I'll show you tomorrow's view later in this post.

Took a great walk at the base of Castle Crags on a beautiful crisp winter's day

Jeffery phone-talked me along the trail to Root Creek, so it was like having a friend along for the hike!

Art shot of the cool white creek-bed at Root Creek

Day 2 of my trip, I loved this sign!  The little town of Shasta Lake is pretty nice, I must say.

There's Shasta Dam, Shasta Lake, and Mt. Shasta gauzily visible in the background.

I single-handedly took this photo of the cool vanity in the ladies room

Model of the dam's down-stream side

and it's reservoir side.

Topo map of where I am.  My hotel room was in Redding (thank you Jeffery)

for future reference when I hike with Brenda.

I am HAPPY as I walk across the Shasta Dam 

The rainbow kept moving so I followed it.

Here's the spillway, which gave me terrible vertigo, but I clung to the rail and felt the power.

Looking straight down and thinking of the people who walk the cat-walk level just below me.

I got my paper stamped with the Park Stamp.  We collect Park Stamps, but often have to ask if they have them.

Goodbye Shasta Dam.  I see that Mt. Shasta is getting cloud-gauzier, so I'm heading up there to look closer at it.

You can barely see it, but there it is.

Castle Crags seen from Mt. Shasta city.

Black Butte with snow on it.

Summit Road colorful truck village

Mt. Shasta from Weed, CA

Hey, I think this is a new store!

Black Butte from the north as I head home.

There's the colorful trucks again.

Made it home with groceries and plenty of gas, and it was still light, so I could see my world trying to get ready to open Hwy 70 tomorrow.  I can tell you that it snowed after I got home (talk about perfect timing!), so it's going to be Tuesday before they open the Hwy.  I am refreshed and ready to go skiing with Grant!!!