Fall color intensifies in flat, overcast light, created by a foggy or rainy sky.
Oakland color spotter Darrell Sano was up in the Napa Valley yesterday, as rain swept across Northern California.
He returned with these bright images of fresh green grass and fully turned grape leaves, scenes similar to what Tracy Zhou captured during the previous week’s storm.
Darrell found the “intense, lush green that now blankets the vineyard floor” to be “striking” and contrasting “with what’s left of the reds and yellows on the vines.”
High winds lashed parts of the north state, though wind only strips what was ready to fall.
Leaves in the process of ascission often remain hanging.
Clouds and fog that “hung low among the trees… never did provide definition beyond a gray “softbox” of a sky. Nevertheless, the scenery was beautiful, subdued, and introspective.”
Darrell found beauty by searching “the many dead-end lanes that are perpendicular to the highly trafficked route 29 and Silverado Trail.”
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