A year

 It’s been a crappy year for a lot of people. It’s been a crappy year.  So…happy new year, internet!  Other than being sober for a year, (for me, that’s good) some more things I will think about in the new year ( from a website devoted to the pursuit of happiness):  
Forget the past.
Do stuff.
Talk to strangers.
Stay in touch.
Make [...]

Shasta Butte from the Sacramento River Canyon

Old Shasta Courthouse Museum, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

Painting by Carlos Hittel, 1895
“Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California.” Joaquin Miller

Mt. Shasta, California

Mt. Shasta, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

Down along Marmot Ridge on Mt. Shasta. Taken Febuary 8, 2008.

Mt. Shasta, California

Avalanch gulch, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

Taken January 17, 2008

One more quote from “Dame Shirley”

September 30, 1851
If they wish to borrow anything of you, they will mildly inquire if you have it “about your clothes.” As an illustration; a man asked F. the other day, “If he had a spare pick-axe about his clothes.” And F. himself gravely inquired of me this evening at the dinner-table, if I [...]

“Dame Shirley” (Louise A.K.S. Clappe)

Last June (that would be June of 2008, when I was working a ca highway 70 project ) I posted this picture of a gold dredge floating on East Fork of the Feather River. It’s a spot several miles up river from the legendary Rich Bar gold fields. Why Rich Bar is legendary, is [...]

Old Shasta Courthouse Museum

old shasta courthouse/museum, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

Old Shasta State Historical Park, California
California Woman Suffrage 1870 – 1911
“Votes for Women these are three small words which constitute the biggest question of the political world today.”
- The Sacramento Congressional Record of January 1911

Jethro Tull — Another Christmas Song

It snowed this morning

snow, originally uploaded by jasonstimpel.

It snowed this morning, you dykey faggot.