Pleasanton’s Skies Darken, Rain and Color Drops

Late last evening, color spotter Anirudh Natekar reported that Pleasanton was still at full peak and documented it with these photographs of hot-orange trees at the Hacienda Business Park. However, along with the color is seen a foreboding, darkening sky, the harbinger of an approaching storm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This morning, blustery winds blew across Northern California as the front edge of a winter storm blew over the West Coast. No doubt, much of the bright peak fall color that Anirudh captured in the East Bay, yesterday, was stripped from branches.

As evidence, my yard (in the Sierra foothills) was wet and littered with the mushy fiber of yellow, orange, brown and black newly fallen, but spent leaves.

For the color spotter not wishing autumn to end, some fall color remains in areas that were protected from the wind or that had not yet fully peaked, though most is now gone with the wind.

And if you must find color, look for irridescent red berries on hawthorn branches and toyon bushes. They provide intense and cheerful seasonal color in the flat light of an approaching winter.

Past Peak YOU MISSED IT! – Northern California