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November is the month for California’s urban forests, arboretums and botanic gardens to peak. Foliage at the LA County Arboretum & Botanic Garden hasn’t forgotten. Color spotter Frank McDonough sends these shots of early color showing at the Arboretum. Just Starting (0-10%) — LA County Arboretum & Gardens
“This could be the best fall ever. Why not?,” Los Angeles Times columnist Chris Erskine poses, while musing over whether a splash of leftover coffee in his onions made them better. His random tome challenges us to see life from a new perspective, and that autumn is the season that forces introspection. CLICK HERE to read […]
Color spotters from across California sent images this week of what they captured. Most came from US 395 in the Eastern Sierra, which had its last great week of peak. Here’s a postcard collection. Click to enlarge. Mariusz Jeglinski shared this collection of photographs taken on one day in the Eastern Sierra. One day, one […]
Plumas County color spotter Mike Nellor returned to the Community United Methodist Church in Quincy, yesterday, to take a picture of it using his mobile phone. Seen behind the church, towering black oaks are Near Peak, their leaves turning from green to orange. Along Main Street in downtown Quincy, maple were glowing in iridescent hues […]
Just when you think it might be over, another set of photos arrives. This one is from Josh Wray who toured his home town of Mammoth Lakes this morning and found “Go Now!” gold everywhere and snow dusting Mammoth Mountain’s ski runs. Josh writes that the Lakes Basin Bike Path, Snowcreek and Mammoth Creek […]
How’s that for a Halloween headline? When we received the above photo of a plethora of peaked aspen oozing across a gully atop Conway Summit, macabre thoughts of haunted forests, delightfully possessed with crimson fall color, came to mind. After all, it’s the time of year when things go bump in the night, or is […]
Photographs of the June Lake Loop taken by color spotter Josh Wray are so joyful, that like Josh, we just want to throw leaves into the air. Josh writes that he’s “sad for this season to come to an end.” That’s saying a lot, because Josh lives in Mammoth Lakes where it seems every […]
Autumnal change is making news across California, as numerous media have turned to CaliforniaFallColor.com for fall color updates. Already, numerous reports and photographs have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, SFGate (San Francisco Chronicle), KLIV (San Jose), KNX (Los Angeles), KGO (San Francisco), KCRA-TV3 (Sacramento), Westways (So. Calif. AAA), Examiner.com, KNTV-TV11 (San Jose), KFBK (Sacramento), KGO-TV7 […]
[cvm_playlist theme=”default” aspect_ratio=”4×3″ width=”640″ volume=”30″ videos=”6578″] William Croce sends this “classical” look at quaking aspen changing color in Bishop Creek Canyon (Eastern Sierra) in early October. Of note, frames include images of black-leaf-spot-damaged aspen leaves and leaves that show all colors seen among California aspen: red, orange, yellow and lime. Enjoy!
Native black oaks have taken charge of the autumn show in Plumas County where they are suddenly showing brilliant tones of lime, yellow, orange and red. Color spotter Jeff Titcomb reports that the black oak are now the dominant color provider along Hideaway Road in Greenville and the Canyon Road to Round Valley. Both are […]