Sacramento River
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Mount Shasta City claims "headwaters" of the upper Sacramento River at its City Park, where a lovely spring gushes from a hillside (at right), feeding the nascent river and creating shady boggy areas that are just magical.   

The water is drinkable - conveniently piped into a fountain - and delicious... 

Below, plants supported by the springs.
Further below, on the left, a tree on the trail, and on the right, our very fragrant native rose arching over the trail. 
A very different scene lower on the Sacramento River, here at Redding.  I dropped by to check out the bridge by my favorite engineer, Santiago Calatrava.

Called the Sundial Bridge, Calatrava is balancing tension and compression forces through the cables, the thick "sundial" structural element, and a delicate cantilevering of the walkway (note that the cables connect to the walk 1/3 of the width of the walk, not in the middle).  The lines are, as always with Calatrava, clean and the solution elegant.  By the way, the Sundial is designed to be accurate on the summer solstice, and there are markers on the bank indicating the time by the 1/4 hour. 

I have pics of a Calatrava bridge in Bilbao - click
here if you want to see them. You'll have to scroll down a bit to see them.
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