Topaz Lodge

Topopaz Lake. Last stop till we get to Reno Nevada and my hubby should be waiting to pick me up. One of those stops that you just HAVE to take, yet feel bad for asking the driver to stop because you really are close to your destination.

This was a casino and restaurant and we went inside to use their facilities. (that sounded weird, like I was going to use a tree, LOL!!!)

Anyway this is looking down from the front door.

Coming down the steps. Ya know? this is really pretty here.

A little farther down the stairs

Beautiful!!!

Friends, Yarn and the Atlantis Hotel

Going down to southern Ca. was really a last minute trip. So much that I had forgot to write about here until later which can be seen in my previous post. Since I was not planning on even posting for the few days I was gone, I was not using that thought process. However I never leave home without my camera and for most days took pictures. So I thought I would go ahead and post what happened in my life these last ten days (or close to it) even though I was not in Lassen County.

My girlfriend Elizabeth drove me to Reno Nevada late Saturday night and we had a room at the Atlantis Hotel. The next day November 30th we walked across the street to Joannes, a yarn store and did a bit of yarn shopping. We are both avid lovers of crochet and it was quite nice to go there (Joannes) with someone that has the same passion. When we walked in I tried to take some pictures of this beautiful fountain and for the most part I was unable to capture it the way I wanted.

However it was much more simple when you add a true friend in the picture. So this is Elizabeth with her beautiful smile. Kinda makes you forget about the fountain. Her husband Robert was in the room while we enjoyed girl time.

Then a cocktail waitress walked by and asked if I would like her to take a picture of the both of us. Of course I said yes. She snapped this picture and got away from me so quick I could not even get her name yet alone tip her like I would have liked to had done.

Lassen County's Shoe Tree Day 50

Without sounding presumptuous, I would have to believe that anyone from Lassen County who has travelled to Nevada on 395 south has seen the infamous (maybe only locally) shoe tree. I have been traveling that highway since 1977 and I don't recall not seeing it, however in those early years of me falling in love with Lassen County, I perhaps was not on the lookout for a shoe tree. I know it has gone through "changes" not just the tree itself, but legal etc. It has been "de-shoed" a few times. There have been "threats" of reprimand if caught "shoeing" the tree if I recall right.





It has a circular drive in/through for a person to check it out. It is also quite rare (on my trips past there) that you do not see someone sitting below it in the shade (of the shoes) by the looks of the tree this trip. Nor to not see a family out taking pictures of it. It just so happened that it was my turn today to play the "tourist" and stop there to take pictures. For me it is a piece of Lassen county history.

To law enforcement officers and the county clean up crew (which I am going to go out on a limb here ) no pun intended, that it is the prison crews that have to clean it up, that it may be more than that.

For my self it is an innocent and enjoyable sight to see when passing through these parts!