Steamy Saturday

Saturday morning I went to the Roots Of Motive Powers "Steam Up"in Willits where I live in Northern California. They had an incredible display of working steam equipment up and running from steam locomotives to steam cranes and a shovel. They also had several steam donkeys and a stationary steam engine in operation. In addition to steam equipment they have an impressive display of both logging and railroad equipment as well. To the crowds delight they were offering train rides on their loop track around the property with vintage cars pulled by a steam locomotive. All of the Roots volunteers were very friendly and knowledgeable about the equipment they were operating. It was a great look at the industrial might of a time gone by. God bless, chris All images created with a Canon 7D. Camera was in AV mode, ISO 400 shutter speeds and F stops varied.

It's Wet and It's Winter

This morning I awoke early in the dark to take Annika down to school for an art field trip to San Francisco. It was pouring down rain so I decided to take a few images of small town Willits before I headed home.

God's love and blessings to all,

chris

A Vanishing Breed of Men

Today when I was dropping off the recycling I noticed a loader unloading logging trucks full of Redwood logs at the mill. I made a mental note to take some images of it when I finished the recycling. Luckily for me they were still unloading when I got done and I was able to get a few images.



You don't get to see that much logging activity around here that much anymore. At one time there were eight mills in operation in the area where I live. Now there is just one and it is a specialty mill that produces special order timbers and redwood lumber only. So jobs and a livelihood in the timber industry are now passing into history. We have moved onto tourism and other green forms of industry so it's good to grab a few images of what soon may be history.

God's light and love to all,

chris