Entries by John Poimiroo

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Color or B&W?

Jeff Luke Titcomb reports that black oak are peaking in Greenville (Plumas County) along Hideaway Rd. Nancy Hull found red, orange, yellow and lime ash peaking near the Colusa Unified School playground. Jeff says the oak look good even without their color. Which do you prefer: color, or black & white? Greenville, Plumas County — Peak […]

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Close to the Heart in Sonoma County

Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties have one of the latest and longest-lasting peaks in California with peak color appearing from mid October to Thanksgiving Day. In Sonoma County, fall color can be found in the vineyards, in wine country cities like Petaluma where native and exotic trees line downtown streets and in state parks where […]

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Insane Color On Nor/Sierra Circuit

Some of this site’s contributors go to great lengths to spot fall color. We put Phillip Reedy in that category, as he’s submitted photographs taken in the Hope Valley (on several occasions), Eastern Sierra and now the Northern Sierra. Phillip drove a “long circuit” up CA-70 from Marysville to Quincy, south through Graeagle and the […]

Still More Photo Contest Entries

Deadline to enter and vote in the Cotton Carriers Fall Photo Contest is just over two weeks away. This is a contest in which visitors to the site vote for their favorite fall color photo. The winner receives a canvas print of their photo, a Cotton Carrier G3 camera holder and recognition as a photographer. […]

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School Colors

The Tritons of the University of California San Diego have Navy blue and gold as their school colors, though judging from these photographs taken on campus, perhaps they should have chosen pink, purple, green and gold. Plumas County color spotter Jeff Luke Titcomb didn’t forget the rest of us color spotters when he traveled to […]

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Chico – Kaching!

Çolor spotters are beginning to cash in by heading to Chico, as autumn color is sprinting through Patchy toward Near Peak. Less than a week ago, we were reporting Chico as Just Starting, but these photographs sent to us by color spotter Robert Kerman show a different story… one worth a road trip and worth […]

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Donner Lake – Just Past Peak

Aspen on the south side of Donner Lake have lost about 40% of their leaves, putting them just past peak. Robert Kerman was there on a balmy autumn day to find kayakers paddling across the lake as flushes of nearly stripped yellow aspen were being reflected in the lake. Donner Lake (5,935′)- Peak to Past […]

Gallimauphry: Photographic Perspectives

When we receive photographs too late to be posted as a current report or perhaps so artistic that they do not tell the story of what was seen, we set them aside for later use as a collection of gallimauphry. Here’s one on Monitor Pass by Steven Crowley. Click to enlarge.

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Last Call: Mono County

If you’re in Mono County on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, you will find nice pockets of color along Lower Rock Creek Rd.,beside the West Walker River and along US 395 in Walker, Coleville and Topaz. A few stubborn splashes of fall color are also hanging on near Silver and Grant Lakes on […]