March 10, part 4 -- still at Lake Tahoe

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Heading back north, on the west side of Lake Tahoe.  It was less sunny than it had been.

Snow by the side of the road, that gorgeous lake, and an excellent sky.......

Taken from a moving car........  See the waves, on the lake?  It was windy.........

Stopping briefly at the same beach -- colder, darker, windier.

Heading around the north end of the lake, so we could drive down the east side.

More and more excellent skies.......

There is a small park on the east side of the lake.  We got out and spent a few minutes.  Interesting how much lighter this pic is than the ones above (which were taken through the car window).  I bet the car windows were dark.  I didn't notice, riding inside, but I bet the camera noticed........

This fence post is made of wood I do not recognize.  It looks like it might have red streaks inside, like the table top where we had lunch an hour earlier..........

Love the top of the post...........

A closer crop..........  Flaky.  In a radial pattern.

Tree rings, clearly visible.  Mirroring the ups and downs of the mountain tops in the distance.

Big rocks.

Tiny pink flowers in a rugged landscape.

Fancy lichens on a rock.  I wonder why that one rock has a lot, and the others don't seem to have any.  Different sorts of rock?

Smooth dark gray rocks, and rougher tan ones.  (I'm remembering the co-existing-but-not-homogenized black sand and tan sand we saw at the beach earlier, and wondering if the differences between these rocks end up as the differences in the two kinds of sand.............)

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