Sticking with the Tahoe theme, back East we called them poplar trees, but out west they are most often known as aspens and Tahoe is full of them. On what I hear was a spectacular day in B’game, it was also spectacular Fall weather in Tahoe. This run of aspens is hitting its bright yellow stride.

The species is quite old for a specific reason as explained by the AI Copilot:

Individual aspen trees have a relatively short lifespan of about 50 to 150 years, but the species’ age is much greater through its root systems, which can form massive, long-lived clones that can be thousands of years old. The oldest known aspen clone is the Pando colony in Utah, estimated to be at least 80,000 years old.

Here in Tahoe, the young trees near the Truckee need to be protected from the beavers by wire mesh wrapping. Once they are established, they are beautiful. Like these