Go Ducks Go Pack!!

Sunrise over Fish Springs

Friday morning the window shade on the east side of our rig lit up with a blaze of color that made me think something was on fire outside  - I pulled it up to catch one of the most dramatic sunrises I've seen in a long time so rushed out to catch it. Fleeting but beautiful! The day was pretty much a catch-up-on-chores day and prep for the upcoming football games on Saturday.

Saturday morning the sun popped out in between scattered clouds which eventually cleared off. All the fall leaves brightened up the neighborhood and contrasted with the dramatic backdrop of the eastern Sierras. I could sit and look at that view all day! If the moniker "Big Sky Country" weren’t already taken it would certainly apply here, and these fall colors and winter clouds are a nice change to the clear summer skies and raging thunder and lightening storms we usually see when we are here in July.

Beginning with the Duck game at noon we cheered pretty much non-stop as first our Ducks and then the Nevada Wolf Pack claimed victory over their opponents.  The sunset was rather nice, but foretold an upcoming storm.

Sunday the storm we were expecting did materialize – cold, wet, and high winds. A planned trip up to Virginia City (over 6,00 feet in altitude) seemed like a bad idea, so we girls went shopping in Genoa and Carson City while the guys prepared dinner. By the time we returned home around 3 PM the Sierras were beginning to turn white – 'glad we left Genoa before it started falling! The view in this photo is of the peaks at the southern end of Lake Tahoe.

First snow on the eastern Sierras

Visit the album and enjoy a few shots of the big sky here in the Carson Valley.