From back cover - Julie Stauffer Carville, a long-time resident of Tahoe, is a wildflower photographer, instructor, columnist and lecturer. In Lingering in Tahoe's Wild Gardens she draws the reader as an active partner, within a format of thirty hikes, into the richness of Tahoe's wildflowers and its back-country. As a handy trail guide and a lively account of the fullness of nature, this book is a must for hikers, botanists, poets and daydreamers.