Over the weekend we went up to my parent’s place in Tahoe. We had a very nice trip (although the trip back was long because they shut down Interstate 80 due to multiple accidents) and I thought I would share a few pictures from a hike we took. The snow has melted off quite a bit up there, and the water is roaring along in all the seasonal creeks. There’s still some snow left, and the meadows are only in their earliest stages of emerging from their winter blankets.

Here’s Matt, standing on the “trail” before we entered the meadows.

Here’s the first meadow, although it is more marsh than meadow right now!

The second, bigger meadow is a large shallow lake right now. Amazingly though, we could hear frogs in the water! I would have thought it would be a little cold for them, but I guess these are some very hearty frogs!

We did see some buttercups in the first meadow though, the only wildflowers we saw blooming. There were lots of other things coming up - I bet in a few more weeks there will be a profusion of flowers and mosquitos!

This is my parent’s dog - no she really isn’t howling. :-) She was very pleased with herself for climbing up on that downed tree.