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Plumas County is absolutely beatific. Peak fall color is brightening all its byways and Quincy, the county seat, has never looked better. Michael Beatley, Phillip Reedy and Ravi Ranganathan have been working the byways, backroads and city streets of Quincy to show Plumas and its environs at plumose perfection. Beatley describes Quincy as “gorgeous right […]
Vines change color by grape variety. Here’s an example. The photograph of Zinfandel grape leaves, seen below, is rated as Patchy to Peak in the amount of fall color seen. Whereas, less than a mile east on the same road at C G DiArie Vineyard (video), vines vary between Peak and Past Peak.
Redding saw a lot more red in late August than its residents wanted to see. The red was from the Carr Fire which burned 229,651 acres to the west and northeast of Redding, before it was contained. The fire devastated neighborhoods in the city’s northest corner and was the sixth-most destructive in California history. So, […]
California has more than its share of roadside oddities. There’s Ostrichland in Solvang, Salvation Mountain in Niland, Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch in Oro Grande, the Wigwam Motel in San Bernardino and several drive-through trees in the redwoods. Motorists have been lured by roadside billboards designed to entice bored kids and empty parental pocketbooks, since road […]
One of California’s most spectacular native plants is Darmera, or Indian Rhubarb. With its large, umbrella formed, orange-red leaves, it is spectacular when contrasted with wild blue streams and lush riparian foliage in the Shasta Cascade. Plumas County color spotter, Michael Beatley visited “Rock Creek in Meadow Valley, which flows into Spanish Creek, which flows […]
Landscape photographer Elliot McGucken combines fine art with the Yin-Yang wisdom of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching in his book, The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography. Elliot’s photographs are well-known to readers of California Fall Color.com, as seen in his epic capture of a North Lake sunset gracing the banner of this site. In his book […]
Among the last places in California to show fall color are the state’s many arboretums and botanical gardens. That’s because they are both often near sea level and because they are filled with exotic species whose internal autumnal clock is conditioned for a different latitude. From the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden, color […]
The Chico Hiking Association dipped into Chips Creek along the Ben Lomond Trail (a section of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail) yesterday, to find bigleaf maple Patchy and black oak Just Starting. Ben Lomond is an 7.9-mile, lightly trafficked, out-and-back trail beside Chips Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Feather River. […]
Hawthorn (Crataegus), according to Celtic lore, embody contradictions. Beautiful in springtime with their abundant white blossoms, Hawthorn produce bonny bouquets. Yet, their long, sharp thorns (a member of the rose family) and deathly smell when harvested, discouraged the Celts from picking them. It became a bad omen to bring beautiful blooming branches of Hawthorn blossoms […]