God's Country

This photo was taken less than a mile away from the campus of College of the Siskiyous in Weed, California. Weed is one of the many little towns that sit in the shadow of the majestic Mount Shasta, but if you only focus on Mount Shasta, you are missing the other 90% of the beauty in the area. I ran on the cross country and track teams at College of the Siskiyous. On many cross country training runs, we would run along the trails that lie hidden in the line of trees beyond the meadow. In the background are the Klamath Mountains, among them the 9,000 foot Mount Eddy. On weekends, some of the cross country runners would run a 12 mile loop that wound its way through those mountains. Attending College of the Siskiyous in the early 1990s was one of the best times of my life. What helped make it such an exhilarating experience was the fact that I was living in God's Country.

Good Day to You, Sir