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California is entering its rainbow season. It runs from autumn through springtime. When storms are clearing, the best time to see rainbows is when the sun is behind you and you are looking toward rain or mist. Color spotter Crys Black captured just such a moment at the Sandhill Crane festival (Woodbridge Ecological Reserve, west […]
The Owens Valley, from Bishop south, continues to carry crackling bright orange and yellow color, with cottonwood and rabbitbrush still at peak. Mendocino County color spotter Walt Gabler passed through the Owens Valley on a trip down US 395 to the Imperial Valley. He recommends the route as more scenic and satisfying than I-5 or […]
When it comes to redbud, it’s debatable as to which is prettiest in autumn… East or West. The eastern variety, cercis canadensis, displays bright gold and green heart-shaped leaves. Whereas, western redbud, cercis occidentalis, display orange, red, gold and lime heart-shaped leaves. Both are equally stunning. Redbud is often overlooked by color spotters who give up […]
Color spotting need not be done or appreciated only by grown ups. Paige Kermen, age 7, proves that with her photograph of dogwood, dripping with red in Durham. Good eye, Paige. You can now say your photography has been published. This Sacramento Valley farm town, south of Chico, is peaking as walnut orchards turn golden, […]
Shasta Cascade mushroom forager and color spotter, Gabriel Leete brings us photos of the most amazing mushrooms and plants. Ink cap (seen above) rise in clumps after a rain are usually found in tight groups, so they are easily seen from a distance. The grey-brown cap is bell-shaped before opening, after which it flattens and […]
Black oak, bigleaf maple, red maple and gingko biloba were at peak today in Grass Valley, color spotter Robert Kermen reports, a sure sign that the Gold Country is a Peak of the Week destination for this weekend. Grass Valley (2,411′) — Peak (75-100%) GO NOW!
Compared to Napa and Sonoma counties, very few #MendoStrong signs can be seen, now that it has been weeks since the wine country fires occurred, reports Mendocino County color spotter Walt Gabler. Walt was a first responder on the fire team; he found the small American flag (at left) in the area devastated by fire. […]
Shasta Cascade color spotters Danie Schwartz and Cindy Lee Hoover are reporting signs of peak approaching throughout Butte County. Oroville and Biggs (to Oroville’s west) are near peak with Chinese pistache throwing off increasingly iridescent color around the ancient burgundy walls of Oroville’s Chinese temple. At Sank Park in downtown Oroville, maple, dogwood and more […]
Robert Kermen was looking skyward to find these hawks watching him from autumn posts spare of leaves. Accipiters are the largest genus of birds, writes Encyclopaedia Brittanica, with more than 50 species of falconiform birds. Kermen found these on one morning in Northern California. Though, many others have been attracted to Northern California to prey […]
Responding to a call for reports from the wine country, color spotter Darrell Sano left before 7 a.m. on Saturday to get to Sonoma early. As, he’d planned a long day in the wine country. On his drive, he monitored the weather as a band of rain was passing over. Darrell described driving into “a sleepy […]