Tahoe wildflowers. Over the past few months I've been posting regular entries concerning some of the wildflowers I saw on the Tahoe trails. I've pretty much worked through them now so I'll round that theme off with the above. In fact it's a species I've mentioned before but this was the first clump of wildflowers I saw.
 These are Woolly Mule's Ears (Wyethis mollis) in a sunny clearing in the pine forest on day two of my hike. W. mollis became more and more common as the hike progressed; indeed they carpeted some of the open hillsides towards Carson Pass. [See also my entry 8th. August for a particularly flowery spot where they combined en masse with innumerable Lupins and Scarlet Gilia]