Summer Vacation

Lake Tahoe, near Incline Village, CA. August 2010

When you're at home, and you putter around, sleep in, watch TV that you normally don't, make eggs and bacon breakfasts and wander around outside, someone would likely call you lazy.

But, when you putter around, sleep in, watch TV that you normally don't, make eggs and bacon for breakfast and wander around outside looking for pine cones somewhere else, it's a good vacation.

We have to juggle two different, non-synchronized school schedules, so we got away for a few days a couple of weeks ago. Since then, school has started for J and I've just finished up summer term. We're back into the ebb and flow of the school year and vacation seems so long ago ...

Twin Lakes, Mammoth Lake area, CA. August 2010

We did far less hiking than we normally do, but we drove around the Mammoth Lake and Lake Tahoe areas, stopping to nap, take photos and sketch. We hit our favorite eating spots in Lake Tahoe (the dinner buffet at Harrah's, the Nestle Cafe at Heavenly Village, and Orchid's Thai). We cooked up some halibut and found some really big pine cones to bring home. I didn't get bitten by any mosquitos. A pretty good vacation, all in all.

Twin Lakes, Mammoth Lake area, CA. August 2010

North Lake Tahoe, Incline Village area. August 2010

My Big Bear ♥ at the Mono Lake Visitor's Center. August 2010.