Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Things seem more elemental in Redding

So today I'm at work, and the window I can look out of provides a view across the Sacramento River to the northwest.  Right now the river is boiling downstream, swollen by all the rain and snow we've been having.

I was just glancing up to admire the view of a heavy rain shower coming by when right on the other side of the river I spied another big Bald Eagle swing out of the sky and land on top of a big fir tree, bending the top way over.

He/she sat there for fifteen minutes before flying off upstream.  What a sight as the rain poured down, backlit by the setting sun so each drop gleamed gold if smelted by the Gods themselves.

Then, on the way home, probably that same rain shower was heading east ahead of me, creating a gleaming rainbow that for ten minutes nonchalantly drug it's gaudy rump across the local countryside.

After all that when I got home I put a steak in to cook.  Now I'm hearing thunder.

Sometimes it's flat out amazing just to be alive to drink deeply of stuff like this.




6 comments:

  1. So humble man starts his Lent season and God sends this for his first day. Thanks for sharing this.
    - psychodave

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  2. Nature never lets you down for entertainment if you can stand the extremes.

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  3. You need to be a bush pilot in Alaska, flying your float plane from your island home near Sitka. Just saying.

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  4. Yup.
    living on the Oregon coast for 40 years is great (too dry in the liberal valley) and The Rogue, except for the liberal morons who screw the tranquility up. Hey, cut timber, go commercial fishing.
    I conducted spawning ground surveys for salmon. In my younger years as a biologist, I encountered Bald eagles on a regular basis. Best place in the world, IF yo can put up with the the left wing dumbass liberal assholes who live here too. ignore them. Pretend to be "cool" too. It's funny. They;'re real morons, who have no clue. They are easily duped into agreeing with a conservative view. did I say Morons? LOL.

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    1. What is wrong with agreeing with a conservative view? Maybe they might learn something. One can always hope.
      JWFitz

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