See You Next Autumn

Today marks the first day of winter, though Jack Frost truly arrived on the weekend following Thanksgiving Day.  And so, officially, California Fall Color will remain dormant until fall arrives in 2010.  Thanks again to all who contributed fall color reports this year… see you again at the end of summer.

Wishing it would Rain…

Sacramento-based travel writer Barbara Steinberg comments to us this past week…

“I must say this really has been the most colorful Sacramento autumn I can recall. I guess the lack of rain and storms has kept the leaves on the trees…downtown Sacramento, Midtown, and surrounding neighborhoods are just beautiful. And a recent visit to Fairfield and Suisun Valley was much the same. The walnuts are green and yellow…vineyards are still showing their colors and clusters of grapes.  Still…I do wish it would rain.”