Autumn In Your Backyard

Blue oak, Quercus douglassii, El Dorado Hills (11/10/18) John Poimiroo

Fall color has descended to California’s urban forests with Peak color appearing at elevations below 1,000′, bringing autumn to your backyard.

I captured these images during a five-minute walk of my backyard in El Dorado Hills (Sierra Foothills).

Eastern redbud, Cercis canadensis, El Dorado Hills (11/10/18) John Poimiroo
Cut-leaf weeping birch, Betula pendula, El Dorado Hills (11/10/18) John Poimiroo
Star Magnolia, M. Stella, El Dorado Hills (11/10/18) John Poimiroo
Pacific dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, El Dorado Hills (11/10/18) John Poimiroo
Chinese pistache, Pistacia chinensis, El Dorado Hills (11/10/18) John Poimiroo
Prairifire Crabapple, Malus ‘Prairifire’, El Dorado Hills (11/10/18) John Poimiroo

Pin oak, Quercus palustris (11/14/18) John Poimiroo

soyoung kim says:

hope you and your family are safe and not in the fire danger zone!

John Poimiroo says:
November 14, 2018 at 7:22 pm

Thanks for the words of concern, Soyoung. We’re well south of the Camp Fire, though the smoke is thick here and throughout the Sacramento Valley. Our thoughts are of those displaced by the fires near Malibu and that destroyed Paradise.