The Events of Sunday, June 27, 2010

 

Walking around the town of Mount Shasta this morning, I observed a bell-shaped flower with brilliant blue blossoms. I also saw a whole bunch of mobile homes. I guess that when you are surrounded by such beautiful scenery, you don’t fret about the appearance of your house.

 

 The free showers at Abrams Lake RV Resort were clean and spacious, but I think the water supply was intended for just one person. With six of us trying, we got a trickle that varied abruptly between tepid and scorching hot. So our first adventure of the day was surviving the shower puzzle.

 

We worshipped with the Church of the Nazarene in Mount Shasta. With the six of us, we may have totaled 25 people in the pews. That could have felt very awkward, but the people were very welcoming. Pastor Andy and two others introduced themselves before we even got inside the church, and by the time worship began, we had met most of the people there. The church was built by the pastor’s dad, designed so that Mt. Shasta appears through the large window at the front of the church.

 

Many folks mentioned that today was the “The Day in the Sun” celebration in the park. After further probing, I learned that this was not, after all, a celebration of the summer solstice, but was rather a city-wide gathering of all the area churches for music and games and free food (and the name was “A Day in the Son”). We decided that we should give it a try. The band playing in the park was called Fret Not (love the name—see Psalm 37), and they played some excellent Christian bluegrass that kept us bouncing and swaying in our seats (on the grass).

 

We drove to Ashland’s beautiful Lithia Park and spent some time reading Hamlet out loud together. Pam braved the non-air-conditioned RV to prepare for us our first one-pot meal. Then we watched the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Hamlet”—intense and captivating. The play ended about 11:30, and then we drove to River of the Rogue State Park to camp. We’ll be here for three nights.