This was a car-free day and the first, in quite a few days, where the skies were practically blue again (we have been inundated with smoke from many fires).

As we were strolling, we passed the most beautiful bush, teeming with fluttering beauty. It was mesmerizing.



After touring the Lake Tahoe Historical Society Museum, learning even more about our area's incredible past, we were given an almost private tour of the Old Log Cabin.
This small, rustic cabin was built around 1933 by the Pomeroy family and originally was intended for a retired schoolteacher, Miss Mason, who rejected it as being too crude. It was then purchased by the Gruener Family for a summer home and used until 1968.
The cabin was then bought by the city and stood unused until 1970 when it was then opened as the Log Cabin Museum. By 1983, the collection of all things Tahoe, quickly outgrew the small cabin.  In 1991, it was put on the back of a truck and moved to its current site, next to the bigger museum, and over the years this home has been completely furnished as it would have been when the Gruener Family summered there.
Today, the Pomeroy cabin is the least altered of any of the log cabin style structures built in the Tahoe Basin in the past century. What a glimpse into the past.
Our final stop was for the Live at Lakeview Concert Series, featuring one of our favorites, Diego's Umbrella. According to their website, "There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love Diego’s Umbrella and those who don’t know them yet. Celebrated as San Francisco’s ambassadors of Gypsy Rock, these world-renowned entertainers have created an irresistible mélange that is entirely their own."

Steve and Cyndi joined Lori, Steve and me for an evening of raucous fun.


"A Diego’s Umbrella show is a singular, ecstatic experience. One concert is all it takes to becoming a believer. Night after night they effortlessly blend eastern European sounds, marching drums, beautiful harmonies and catchy hooks with a showmanship that has all the fire and unpredictability of youth, marked by a chiseled refinement of years of experience on the road."
So there you have it. That's a Thursday in South Lake Tahoe. Kind of cool, isn't it?