Birthday Month Day #24 in Tahoe

Having returned to my Happy Place, it was ideal that my first day back was spent with Karen. She has a knack of reminding me why I love Tahoe so much!

We began our morning catching up at Cuppa Tahoe.
Needing to get out in it all, we then headed to Taylor Creek.

With hopes of spotting newly awakened bears, none were to be seen. We were disappointed.
What we did witness, in plentiful quantities, was evidence of beavers.
After extinction in the Sierra Nevada by the early 1900s, Castor canadensis were re-introduced to the Tahoe Basin between 1934 and 1949 in order to prevent stream degradation and to promote wetland restoration. Descended from no more than nine individuals from the Snake River in Idaho, these little guys are plentiful and way so cute. For some reason, in the winter of 2014, one beaver ignored the designation of nocturnal and would appear in the afternoon, to the delight of a vast audience who knew his schedule.

This darling image has been taken from my post describing that winter sighting.
With 60°+ temperatures, it felt like late-Spring but the foliage still had the bleak look of a recent winter.
That said, upon closer observation, Spring was discretely appearing. What JOY!
Karen then treated me to lunch at a new-to-me place, Cascade Kitchens. What a perfect return home. JOY, indeed.

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