Old Beauty in the Dead of Winter

It was a beautiful day today, so about 9:30 this morning I grabbed my camera and tripod to see what I could find.  I took a left on Hwy 95 and headed south toward Fort Churchill State Park. Some of you may remember my  Day 43 photo from Fort Churchill.  Just a bit further from the entrance to the main park area is  “The Orchard,”  just across the highway from Buckland Station,  the picnic and hiking area at Fort Churchill State Park.

The area is full of decaying farm buildings with signs all over them NOT to enter (drat!), as well as rusting farm equipment and old wagons.  Here are a few of my shots. I’ll be posting more over the coming days.

You can see some of the adobe buildings of Fort Churchill in the background in this first one.

Day 246 – A little gem near Lake Tahoe

Spooner Lake is one of our favorite places to take the dogs for a hike. Given my heart issues, the trail is reasonably easy for me to handle, and the scenery . . . AWESOME!

The lack of rain is evident in the shoreline.

Given the very dry winter, there were almost no flowers to speak of. Just a few here and there, but again, the view was still lovely.

Another view from the trail – through the trees.

Seriously…isn’t this gorgeous?