Fannette Island

Fannette is part of Emerald Bay State (California) Park and the only island in Lake Tahoe. The structure that looks like a castle is the “Tea House” built by Mrs. Lora Josephine Knight. To learn more about it visit the Emerald Bay State Park home page.

Chaw’se

I caught this guy coming out of a mortar hole in grinding rock at Indian Grinding Rock SHP on my way to South Lake Tahoe. If you’re ever in the area it’s a nice place to visit. Here’s a description from an article, “The Rock and The People” on their website:

Chaw’se is the Miwok word for grinding rock – a slab of stone on which the Miwok people ground acorns and other seeds into meal, slowly forming the cup shaped depressions in the stone that can still be seen today. Along with the mortar holes, the main grinding rock within the park also features a number of decorative carvings: circles, spoked wheels, animal and human tracks, wavy lines, etc. Some of these carvings are thought to as much as two or even three thousand years old and are now becoming difficult to see. This association of rock art and bedrock mortar pits is unique in California. Except for one other small site, Chaw’se has the only known occurrence of mortars intentionally decorated with petroglyphs.

Solitude

A man fishing on Red Lake in the Sierras.

Red Lake at Sundown

On the scenic route from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe there are a lot of lakes. This one is called Red Lake. The low angle of the sun made a nice contrast on the man fishing.