When one thinks of Lake Tahoe, one pictures various hues of blue and beautiful greens. Yellow is not one of the colors that comes to mind quite as often.

I loved that even the damselfly, clinging to this pond flower, was a shade of yellow. Do you see her? So cool.


I had hoped to finally see the elusive Tahoe Yellow Cress, a small native plant that grows on the shoreline of Lake Tahoe and nowhere else in the world. It lives only on the sandy beaches and dunes at the ever-changing margin of the lake.
This plant was growing in TYC's protective environment, but as it turns out, I still haven't seen the only-in-Tahoe bloom. The hunt continues.

The Upper Truckee Marsh is one of those South Lake Tahoe spaces that nourishes. It is the perfect place to sit and ponder. We'll be here often this summer.