Dinner at Rosie’s Cafe, Tahoe City

This place, once owned by a woman named Rosie, serves wonderful comfort food, has great drinks and serves breakfast lunch and dinner. Before it was Rosie’s, it was a bar called The Hearthstone.

Rosies in Tahoe City

It’s right on the lake. I took this photo from the steps. I cropped out the road and cars in the foreground but otherwise the photo is not enhanced.

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Speaking of steps, check out this plaque on Rosie’s:

On This Date

I hope some day you get to stand on those steps youself, if you haven’t already.

Rosie decorated the whole restaurant with a lot of antiques that she collected from little farm houses and antique shops around the country.

Antique skis

Antique bikes

Check out what they use for pulleys on the door:

Door pulleys

And here’s the view from the table at twilight. (Also has no post processing.)

Twilight from the table

I didn’t photograph the food, but it was great. They offer mostly comfort food (fried chicken, chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, pot roast) but also light fare (edamame, artichoke hearts, veggie stirfry). I had their  their Bloody Mary and my hubby had the Ultimate Pain Killer. For details on drinks:

http://www.rosiescafe.com/menuMain.html#fullBar

And on the food:

http://www.rosiescafe.com/menuMain.html

Sunrises

Today is cloudy! So even though yesterday’s sunrise was just a repeat of the day before, the image no longer feels ho-hum to me. Here’s yesterday’s mountain sunrise (slightly enhanced):

Sunrise Monday

I forgot to post this photo, sunrise at the Austin, Texas airport, shot through the window:

Texas sunrise

But you REALLY have to see this incredible sunrise photo (don’t miss the bird in the sky) and gorgeous poem that was just posted by The Hour of Soft Light:

http://thehourofsoftlight.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/murmuration/

Lake Tahoe

Please forgive the quality, but I had to shoot this from the open window of a moving car. I wanted you to have a picture of Lake Tahoe, which I happened to drive-by yesterday due to the Ironman which was being run (literally) on the North Shore, causing a detour. Instead of being able to take 89 to 80 to Reno yesterday, we had to take 28 around the North Shore and then backtrack on 267 to pick up 80 at Truckee. (30 min. delay.)

Long story just to tell you why I saw Lake Tahoe yesterday! Permanent residents, as I once was, bop along the shores of the lake, going about their business, never bothering to look at the lake. Now that I don’t live here any more, I always make sure to open my eyes if I’m anywhere near it. And now that I’m a blogger, that also means opening my camera and snapping a photo whenever possible. (I was not driving the car.)

I am going to give you the original and the enhanced one. The sky was not actually as blue as the one in the enhanced version, but I thought it looked pretty so I included it.

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Lake Tahoe

After the storm, Alpine Meadows

Several people ran outside yesterday to take pictures. The amazing lighting and sky lasted for hours. There was a blue cast to all the trees that have smooth bark and to the granite. These photos are not enhanced except where noted.

Trees and granite
Trees and granite, looking west
Trees and sky
Trees and sky, southwest
Blue trees enhanced
Blue trees enhanced, southeast
Blue trees 2
Blue trees, southeast
Blue tree 1
Blue tree, south
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Sky and condos, looking east

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Flowers in front of A Sante Gym and Lake Tahoe

You can see a bit of the gym in the background here. In Tahoe City, A Sante is a really good gym. It’s $20 for a day pass but you’ll have a huge selection of freeweights, machines and contraptions I’ve never seen before like a rope pulling system. I watched a man use that one. You stand in front of it and pull a rope hand over hand as if you are climbing it, but instead you are lifting weights. It’s a very large machine with a thick rope that runs through pulleys. These flowers are in planter boxes in front of the gym.

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See the bee? (The small camera I use doesn’t do macros well (haven’t tried the macro setting though), but I managed to get one in-focus shot of the bee.)

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All the cardio equipment looks out at this view!

The Lake

And there’s a sauna, if you have time to enjoy it.