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It isn’t me in the picture above, but my Facebook Page image is at Burney Falls.
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It isn’t me in the picture above, but my Facebook Page image is at Burney Falls.
Week 27: The Most Beautiful Place I’ve Been
This is the twenty-seventh week. I guess this means we’re on the down-hill spiral now. It’s hard to believe half of 2017 has already gone by, but here we are again with another 52 Week Blog Challenge post. We have a whole half of year to look forward to.
About this week’s topic… Maybe Mt. Shasta isn’t the most beautiful spot I’ve ever been, but it’s up there at the top with:
The Great Lake State:
California:
I could choose:
In other words, so far in this lifetime, I can’t choose one particular place.
But today I’m choosing a “beautiful” trip and heartfelt memory with my oldest son.
Mt. Shasta, California.
It’s Thanksgiving weekend. On this visit to California to see my oldest son, we did a couple day trips. The ones I’ll mention today are our trips to Mt. Shasta, the mountain and the city, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, and Shasta Dam and Lake. On a clear day you can see Mt. Lassen at Lassen Volcanic National Park. We visited Mt. Lassen on my first visit to California.
Mt. Shasta isn’t in view in this image due to the clouds.
The Three Shastas. Lake. Dam. Mountain.
It’s a steady climb all the way up. The temperature was around the mid-sixties when we left, and by time we got there, his temp gage in the truck hit around thirty-two degrees. He wanted to show me the Mt. Shasta Ski Park, but it was closed. We got as far as the gate. I’ve shown you pictures of Mt. Shasta before, but this wall hanging was a Christmas gift from him. My previous (times two moves) apartment wallpaper didn’t look that yucky color in person.
He took the picture from the Oregon side of the mountain. It’s a three-panel canvas and is almost the size of my couch. The time spent with him that long weekend is a favorite memory, and is the reason I shared Mt. Shasta as one of the most beautiful places I’ve been. I can’t wait to see what the other participating authors chose.
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My oldest son lives in California. One of the big fires is close to his city now. His boss and some friends he works with have already been evacuated, but they live farther out of town. He’s been sending me photographs, so I am adding some of them here. It’s so scary. From some of the photos sent to me, I am seeing some of the places I have visited while there, like Shasta Dam, Whiskeytown Lake, and other places like that where the fires are breathing on the borders. It’s just sickening to see the devestation!
This week my youngest son is going to California to tour Napa Valley. There are fires around Sacramento, too, so I don’t know how much of Napa will be closed off. They won these tickets, and the plans are all made, so they can’t change it now.
Mary J. McCoy-Dressel 
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