We snuck off to a different place for the weekend, and it was beautiful. There was almost more time on the road than at our destination, but it is better to view that as an abundance of knitting time.  Artists are told to see new places for fresh inspiration and then come home with “new eyes” (I could use a bit more distance in my vision, but I don’t think this is what “new eyes” means.)      Here is some of what we saw:   This is Kokanee Salmon, swimming upstream to spawn (that means to lay eggs). Nice color – the shockingly brilliant red against the duller greens, complementary colors.

 

 

 It snowed up high. The orangey-yellow and blue are good together, almost complementary colors.

 

 

Tahoe means “big water” – it is!  And in this shot the mountains are bluer than the lake, although there were other views that showed the reverse. 

 

The aspens are changing more slowly than in Mineral King, even though the elevation is the same here. I saw a tree with orangey-red leaves at the top and it was still green at the bottom! There were cars pulled over all along the highway – lots of cameras out there!