Postcard: The Week That Was

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 word… Beautiful!

Pushkar Gejji sent these impressions of the Eastern Sierra.

Ivan Alo journeyed to the spot where Greg Newbry took our masthead image and provides his take.

Then, he shows us the beauty to be found in the Owens Valley, when we open ourselves to seeing it.

North Coast color spotter Walter Gabler traveled from Humboldt County to Mendocino County on US, and reported very little color along the route.  Walt says Mendocino’s vineyards are still very green and have changed little since he took this shot last month, though harvest was completed two weeks ago.

Elsewhere in Humboldt County, Gabriel Leete found similarly disappointing bigleaf maple with dry leaves at the East Fork Campground, past Willow Creek.  Several spotters have voiced concern over what effect another year of drought might have on the bigleaf maple and aspen which have struggled in places throughout California.