Giant White Wakerobin (Trillium albidum) with pollinator. These are native to the Sierra foothills, but this is the only one I’ve seen up here, in a thicket not far from a historic mansion, likely an escaped landscape flower, and a most welcome discovery in this time of the Covid.
Pacific Tree Frog, green form
Alpine Jelly Cone (Heterotextus alpinus)
Oregon Grape (Berberis aquiflolium) native to Sierra foothills, but in Tahoe found only around historic residences, where it was a popular landscape shrub of old which spread into surrounding forest. It’s interesting how many of the non-native weeds we find invading our natural, native, finely tuned ecosystems, are escaped landscaping plants.