A place is more than a geographic locale; it’s an attitude, a style and a sentiment. From the moment Gary Wells began visiting his son in Lake Tahoe, he felt an affinity to its architecture — log and timber homes set against a rugged terrain and thickets of ponderosa pine, white fir and aspen. It was how Gary envisioned the land had looked when pioneers first discovered and settled in the region.
“My husband is a romantic about the Old West,” Cathy explains of Gary’s nostalgia.
