Out: Morning Clouds

Tahoe summers are sublime. It's sunny and 80 degrees almost every day here, there's no humidity, and rain and clouds are almost unheard of.

The weather is a gift; we don't have outrageous air conditioning bills or poor air quality days, and it's nearly always ideal for playing outside, as long as you don't forget your sunscreen. With such predictably gorgeous weather, Tahoe should be the wedding capital of the world.

Still by now, most of the snow has melted from the mountains, the creeks are low, the trails are pretty dusty, and the fire risk is even greater than it was when the Angora Fire destroyed over 200 homes two months ago. So I was delighted when I woke up this past week to the ozone smell of an overnight storm and saw these gorgeous clouds spreading across the sky over the lake. It rained again in the afternoon, and now everything just seems refreshed (not to mention our car is clean for the first time this summer).