Blooming Rose Press Photo Gallery

Please note: Last updated November 21, 2007. Page Two of this gallery is available through a link that appears at the bottom of this page as well as following this text. Be sure to check in often. These gallery pages are a work in progress. If you have a photograph of Mount Shasta you would like to submit, just contact us. If you are interested in the more personal aspects of events surrounding our evolutionary novels, view our separate Blooming Rose Press author gallery. Click here for page two of our gallery.

Our small town's milieu is presided over by Mount Shasta, known throughout the world not only as a sacred mountain and source of legends and myths, but also as a renowned alpine experience. Couloir Backcountry Adventure, a prestigious magazine for serious mountain sports enthusiasts, calls Mount Shasta one of the "7 ultimate back country destinations" and ranks the mountain with Europe's Haute Route and Peru's Cordillera Blanca as one of the five best mountains worldwide for skiing. Mount Shasta provides one of the stage settings for astounding developments in each novel that comprises The Third Verse Trilogy.

Even for those not as adventurous - those who simply love the mountain's ever-changing pageantry of beauty and those who delight in photographing it - this place is incomparable as a paradisiacal living experience. Access our Mount Shasta Information page for geological and volcanic resources, regularly updated, and also for an excerpt from (the late) Emilie A. Frank's book Mt. Shasta, California's Mystic Mountain, offering geological insights about the mountain.

Here are a few photographs in which some of us share Mount Shasta's aspects with our visitors. Be assured, although these pictures may be impressive, seeing is believing. Of the hundreds of photos of this mountain that I've seen throughout 30 years, none fully captures the experience of standing on a typical street of our town and gazing at Cathedral Shasta. Also included are photographs of beautiful settings within the mountain's realm. These represent a small sample of high mountain lakes, meadows, forests, streams and waterfalls to be appreciated in the semi-wilderness country that surrounds us.

Mount Shasta at sunset, February, 2004. Photographer: Vicki Brenner.

Mount Shasta taken from Rancho Hills at Lake Shastina, undated. Photographer: Chuck Frumerie.

Mount Shasta at sunset, taken from Rancho Hills at Lake Shastina, November, 2003. Photographer: Chuck Frumerie.

Mount Shasta in autumn, taken from Shastice Park soccer field, October, 2003. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen.

Mount Shasta, the Teacher. Undated. Photographer: Vicki Brenner.

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Castle Lake, spring-fed alpine lake. Taken from the north shore, late summer 2003. Photographer: Anna Hourihan.

Cliff Lake, spring-fed alpine lake. Taken May, 1996. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen.

Another view of Cliff Lake, taken May, 1996. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen.

Approach to north end of Castle Crags. Six mile hike, point of origin Castle Lake, Heart Lake trail, then southward. September, 1995. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen

Lake Siskiyou, three miles west of town. July, 2002. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen

Our charming visitor at Lake Siskiyou. July, 2002. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen

Lake Siskiyou in fall. November, 2001. Photographer: Vicki Brenner

McCloud Reservoir. July, 1992. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen

Another view of McCloud Reservoir, across from site of Hearst Estate, July, 1992. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen

Fishing the lower McCloud River at AhDiNa. July, 1992. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen. Are you interested in AhDiNa's history?

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Another view of lower McCloud River at AhDiNa. July, 1992. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen

Lower McCloud River, downstream from AhDiNa. July, 1992. Photographer: Lily G. Stephen

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