Mercy Hospital Meditation Garden

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It's not a mural. It's real! It's one corner of the
Mercy Medical Center Meditation Garden.

My Samsung phone automatically uploaded this picture to 
my Google Plus photo file, and Google just automatically
edited it and framed it without even asking me.
It looks sort of like a fairytale!

Trinity Sunset

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Sunset over the Trinity Mountains
west of Redding, CA.

Hawes Ranch Produce Stand

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I like to buy my fresh produce at this 
stand in Anderson, CA. Great peaches, 
corn, peppers, melons, onions, and 
lots of other fun stuff. 

Black Phoebe - Morning Light

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This little Black Phoebe came up very close to me. It danced around and flitted as it caught bugs. It pretty much posed for me for about two minutes. This has been a very difficult bird species for me to photograph. I like this picture!

Camo

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Cooper's Hawk

Unexpected Guest

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While photographing birds by the pond, this otter came walking up on my left side and slid into the water. He spent the morning hunting quite effectively.

I.O.O.F. Building, Red Bluff, CA

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International Order of Odd Fellows building, Red Bluff, CA. This building is a registered historic landmark. It was built in 1883.

Blue Belly

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Green Herron

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Starbucks Hawk

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This Red Shouldered Hawk paid a visit to the
Starbucks parking lot this morning.

'55 Chevy P/U

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'55 Chevy pickup, 3100 series, V-8, wrap around rear glass.

Twin Lakes Canada Goose

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Mercy Coy Pond

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The Coy pond in the meditative area of Mercy Medical Center in Redding, CA.
This is a very nice quiet place where people can reflect.

'48 Dodge 5 Window Tow Truck

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Female Red Wing Blackbird?

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Not 100% sure on this one. But the song these birds made sounds just like the male Red Wing Blackbird. This bird looks very similar to a female of the same species. Marshy reeds and wetlands matched also.

Another Union Pacific

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I have wanted to make a photo of one of the freight trains that goes by this spot for quite some time. But, I have never been in the right place at the right time. Today I was.

Quick Shot with my Samsung Galaxy S4

Killdeer

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I saw this bird yesterday, so I returned today and waited 
nearly 2 hours to make this photo. I did not know what kind 
of bird it was, so my friend Stephanie DeMoe Frazier 
identified it for me.

It's a Killdeer!

'51 or '52 Chevy 5 Window

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This was the only angle that I could find to photograph this truck.

Patio Latte'

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View from the patio while sipping a great Latte'

Squirrel

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Kelly Griggs House

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Early morning photo of the Kelly Griggs house in Red Bluff, CA.
The home was rescued by a local group who bought the house from the last surviving Kelly.
The house was renovated with donations, and turned into a museum.

Black Phoebe

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I See You...

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This little doe and I met a block away from my house. She was munching on my neighbor's trees, leaves and whatnot. She doesn't quite know what to think of me.

Jeter Victorian Inn, Red Bluff B&B

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Victorian Five

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Another of Red Bluff's beautiful Victorians.
I have a hunch I'm going to be taking a few more photos in this town. If you have a chance to zoom in to the eves, there is some very intricate craftmanship there.

House Built With Dimes

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In 1864, near the end of the Civil War, Mary and her grown children left Iowa for California. They followed the Mormon Trail to Fort Kearny, Nebraska. After hearing stories of Indian trouble, Mary and her family joined a larger wagon train for protection. At one point, a band of 250 Sioux warriors approached and rode in among the wagons. When members of the wagon train pointed guns at them, the warriors departed.

After reaching the Union post at Soda Springs, Idaho, the wagon train was accompanied for the next 200 miles to Nevada. From there, the family followed the California Trail, crossing the High Sierras, and eventually ending up in Red Bluff, CA.

The 2,000 residents of Red Bluff welcomed Mary and her family with open arms. The family did not have much money, so the town took up a collection to help Mary build a house. The news spread throughout California, and governor Frederick Low even took up the cause. He asked all Californians to donate a dime so that Mary could build herself and her family a home. 

Today, a business occupies the home and cares for it. Few people who drive or walk by the house know anything of its history. I drove to Red Bluff early this morning to photograph the historic house built with dime donations.

Mary Brown fell in love with California, and she lived the rest of her life in the state. Several years after her Red Bluff home was completed however, she moved to Eureka, CA. Some trouble began when several residents became aware of the fact that Mary Brown's husband was John Brown.

In 1837, after the murder in Illinois of an anti slavery newspaper man name Elijah P. Lovejoy, John Brown proclaimed, “Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”

John Brown was true to his word, and over the next two decades he worked tirelessly to end slavery. Eventually, he came to the conclusion that it was impossible to end slavery peacefully. In 1859 John Brown led a daring raid against the Federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, VA, hopeing to start a slave insurrection, and then arming them with the weapons taken from the armory.  Brown  lost two of his sons during that raid, but he succeeded in electrifying the North while terrifying the South. John Brown was captured by Colonel Robert E. Lee, tried in Richmond, VA, and hung.

Mary Brown's husband, John Brown, was one of the most well known figures leading up to the American Civil War. 

This photograph is the Mary Brown house built by the residents of Red Bluff, and the citizens of California. It could be called the House Built With Dimes. And it's hiding in plain sight at 135 Main St., Red Bluff, CA.  

Victorian Four

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I love old Victorians. Red Bluff has quite a few of them.

Red Bluff Rooftops

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Sacred Heart Church can be seen over the rooftops in downtown Red Bluff, CA.

Freightin'

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Freight train crosses the Sacramento River heading south.

Red Bluff Rehab - Victorian

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This is a Victorian home in Red Bluff, CA, that is being fixed up. 
Red Bluff has an active Victorian home project ongoing within the City.
My goal is to go inside this house and take pictures.

Victorian Three

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