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Walker, Calif. is the location of the first Eastern Sierra Kite Festival on the weekend of Sept. 17 and 18. Colorful kites will be competing, demonstrated, built and displayed at this visual and fun event. That’s great timing for a trip to Virginia Lakes, off Conway Summit, where color should be approaching peak. Early peak […]
For the past week and a half, we’ve received a flush of reports of near peak fall color appearing down low (Oakland, Berkeley, Watsonville, Salinas, San Diego), though spots of color have been reported up high, too (Eastern Sierra, San Bernardino Mountains). So, what’s the low down on color that’s down low? Almost all the […]
Color spotter Sweetshade Lane tweeted seeing subtle color at Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve in San Diego, thereby scoring the first “First Report” of the season. The preserve covers some 4,000 acres in the Peñasquitos (meaning little cliffs) and Lopez canyons of San Diego. It is an […]
Red isn’t supposed to be seen in Berkeley until Stanford visits for The Big Game. Yet, Natural History Wandering’s Sandy Steinman sent colorful shots of crimson, coral and rose foliage blushing at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley’s Tilden Park. He even found a summer holly (Comarostaphylis diversifolia) carrying bright lime, yellow, orange and red berries. […]
Always an encouraging sign is when other media notice our reports. NBC Bay Area is one of them. Posted this week on their blog (which is consistently on top of trends) was the declaration from blogger Alysia Gray Painter that though “the autumn equinox is still a month off… a popular leaf-peeping blog (hey, that’s us!) […]
Jim Paruk’s Sierra Nevada Tree Identifier is an indispensable tool for fall color photographers and viewers. The 126-page book includes black and white illustrations by Elizabeth Morales (needles, leaves, fruit, nuts, flowers/bracts, cones and pods) and detailed descriptions of 44 native trees found in the Sierra Nevada. Paruk points out that “By knowing your approximate altitude, field […]
San Bernardino Mountains color spotter Alena Nicholas visited Oak Glen in the San Gorgonio Range, yesterday. Her report shows that fall is definitely in the air. Alena’s drive was above the “snow line” area of Oak Glenn Preserve (First Report) where color is nice in areas up high, but still pretty green down lower. She […]
We know Oakland sports yellow and green in August, as those are the colors of the town’s baseball team, the Athletics, but red? Color spotter Darrell Sano took an eight-mile hike “from downtown Oakland to the foothills of my neighborhood, Montclair. While I wouldn’t say it’s fall color time here, there is a tinge of color […]
Spots of bright yellow have begun to appear in a few aspen and willows at high elevations in the Eastern Sierra (U.S. 395) from Bishop Creek to Carson Pass (CA-88). This is normal and does not indicate an early autumn show, though the overall health and robust green color of the aspen forest is encouraging. […]
I hesitated posting the top left photo received from Leaf Peeper when it arrived in June. This is the same tree Leaf Peeper has submitted previously in summer, making it the third year that a Los Angeles tree gets attention for early color. Now, this just may be that this tree shows red color in […]