September 23, 2013 Nicci High Sierra, Travel

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.

August 18, 2013 Nicci High Sierra, Travel

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.

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.)

All the cardio equipment looks out at this view!

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

May 3, 2013April 13, 2013 Nicci Poem

Freedom from work, a poem by Nia Simone

Freedom from Work

How nice not to have to get serious.
No need to schedule a meeting.
No wondering when,
of four hundred and sixty
To Dos
one will fall through a crack.
And show up on my review.

No more having to be reasonable
or confine my passions to the acceptable.

No getting narrowly defined.
Though you made it worthwhile
for you (all y’all) accepted my narrowly channeled passion
and let me experience
work with
love.

Now I slipped through a crack
and I am free from work.