Keystone day 2 photos
Mar. 23rd, 2010 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianOn day 2, I had a headache but did some walkin' anyway.
The tree shadows on the deep snow were really beautiful. It had snowed heavily a few days before we arrived, and the 50F weather hadn't yet managed to get it melting in earnest by this point.
One of about a hundred attempts to capture the height of the trees and the saturated blues of the sky.
Snow and desert at the same time!
And walking down the unattractive highway, where you can get silicosis from road sand, yay!
Somehow I just love smooth curves of snow next to a river, even a sluggish, backward-flowing river like this one. They still went all the way down to the water's surface on this day. I didn't manage to photograph them as we left, but they'd melted into eccentric, carved-out shapes by then.
A clear view of Lake Tahoe and the mountains opposite. I didn't manage to get down onto that pier.
The Truckee River is the only outlet to Lake Tahoe, and there's a dam controlling it. Fish collect at the river side, though none of them is the overfished native trout any more. The bridge next to the dam is called the "fanny bridge" because of people bending to gawk at the fish (American "fanny" being thus thrust into traffic). The fish were outcompeting the sea gulls for thrown morsels here, probably due to gawker partiality and partly through strength of numbers.
I browsed in a good little thrift shop for a book, since I'd forgotten to bring one down (The Book of Atrix Wolfe for 50 cents!), and then got decent Thai food and a few forgotten toiletries. Luckily a shuttle from the resort found me before I had to climb the whole hill back up, and I was back in plenty of time for afternoon session.
The tree shadows on the deep snow were really beautiful. It had snowed heavily a few days before we arrived, and the 50F weather hadn't yet managed to get it melting in earnest by this point.
One of about a hundred attempts to capture the height of the trees and the saturated blues of the sky.
Snow and desert at the same time!
And walking down the unattractive highway, where you can get silicosis from road sand, yay!
Somehow I just love smooth curves of snow next to a river, even a sluggish, backward-flowing river like this one. They still went all the way down to the water's surface on this day. I didn't manage to photograph them as we left, but they'd melted into eccentric, carved-out shapes by then.
A clear view of Lake Tahoe and the mountains opposite. I didn't manage to get down onto that pier.
The Truckee River is the only outlet to Lake Tahoe, and there's a dam controlling it. Fish collect at the river side, though none of them is the overfished native trout any more. The bridge next to the dam is called the "fanny bridge" because of people bending to gawk at the fish (American "fanny" being thus thrust into traffic). The fish were outcompeting the sea gulls for thrown morsels here, probably due to gawker partiality and partly through strength of numbers.
I browsed in a good little thrift shop for a book, since I'd forgotten to bring one down (The Book of Atrix Wolfe for 50 cents!), and then got decent Thai food and a few forgotten toiletries. Luckily a shuttle from the resort found me before I had to climb the whole hill back up, and I was back in plenty of time for afternoon session.
