Today was our last volunteering opportunity at Vikingsholm for the season.  Spending each week, in Emerald Bay, was an incredibly rewarding way to pass our summertime.

The unspoilt beauty of this pristine bay is what keeps us coming back.

Interestingly, in 1923, this could have been what Emerald Bay and Fannette Island looked like. Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for the Lake Tahoe Summer Colony were speculative. As records show, he attempted to interest the owner of the property - a woman of means by the name of Jessie Armstrong - with preliminary drawings of his proposal. He conceived floating cabins whose changeable positions on the water would intensify the visual impact of the bay, and conceived the inn, itself approached by a floating bridge, as a sort of elaborate jetty. Impressed with Wright as a person, she remained reserved regarding his work. His ideas for Lake Tahoe remained unrealized and every time we go there, we say "Thank Goodness!"