A Lake of the Pines Flora
Check out the document that I was working on in 2011, basically the book which this blog has become! (You may need a scribd account to download the pdf?) Anyways check it out!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210670176/A-Lake-of-the-Pines-Flora
I wrote the document and took the photos while staying with my parents at their home in "LOP" that year, I was working for the Tahoe National Forest as a seasonal botanist- therefore my interest in the subject! Actually I was inspired one afternoon while riding my bicycle around the lake and observing the landscaping along with the oaks pines and manzanitas which occur there naturally. It was interesting to me then, as it is now, how as humans we are able to manipulate our landscape, without ever being able to escape the 'natural' order of which we are part of. As home/landowners, we are able to bend and re arrange our space, and to that end we can either work with or fight the dominant, native ecological systems in which we are part.
I hope that whoever does come across this blog will taking something useful from it!
Peace
Eric