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You’d think that a place called “The Arctic Circle” would be austere and foreboding. Not so along the drive called “The Arctic Circle” near Big Bear where black oak speckle the forest with bright splotches of orange. Seen in San Bernardino Mountains color correspondent Alena Nicholas’ photograph, Big Bear Lake peeks between the layered, sensuous curves […]
Berkeley is perhaps California’s most misrepresented city. It’s more than the Cal Bears and the great university for which they play. It’s more than the student demonstrations for which the university became famous. And it’s more than the “People’s Republic of Berkeley,” the oft-said slight to the liberal city and how it is managed. Berkeley is […]
Three weeks ago, Silicon Valley color spotter Anson Davalos sent images of downtown Saratoga as it developed color. This week it was at peak sugar with bright yellow ginkgo biloba, fluorescent red and orange Chinese pistache, ruby and gold hawthorne and maroon flowering pears heavy with leaves. No doubt, today’s rain and wind sprinkled Saratoga […]
Los Angeles color spotter “LA Leaf Peeper” (actual name withheld to prevent paparazzi from hounding this celebrity), reports that fall color is now “going to town” throughout the City of Angels. LA Leaf Peeper has been the first anywhere in California to report fall color for the past two years and though this LA “star’s” […]
Ansel Adams got so many great photographs of Yosemite, not just because he was a great artist, but because he lived there. Color spotter Alena Nicholas has shared many beautiful images of Lake Gregory this autumn, because she lives there. Nicholas writes,”They say home is where the heart is, and after this weekend, I thought to share, […]
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve mislabeled or just didn’t know what kind of tree appears in one of the photos posted on this site. That’s why I enjoy visiting arboretums. At arboretums, trees are well-marked. The ones in nature don’t have a plaque at the base of their trunks with their common […]
The Napa Valley is perfectly paired to provide beautiful fall color through Thanksgiving Day (conditions permitting). And, where do fall color photographers head on the weekend before Thanksgiving, when Tioga Pass is closed (and even if it weren’t, the color was gone from the Eastern Sierra weeks ago)? They head to wine country. […]
With with the possible exceptions of The Deserts and Santa Catalina Island, it is now peaking at all California elevations below 2,000′. Apple Hill in the Sierra foothills of El Dorado County are canopied with color, as spotters Vera Haranto Fuad and Sarah Showalter found when they visited this past week. Historic photos taken by Linnea […]
Folks heading home for the holidays should see lots of fall color in yards and urban forests, as this sampling taken by color spotters across California attests. Jim Adams went out this week to capture glorious golden ginkgos and colossal claret-colored […]
Why do autumn sunsets seem more spectacular than at other times of year? The Weather Channel reports that, because of its shorter wavelength, blue light is scattered easiest by nitrogen and oxygen air molecules, whereas “longer wavelengths — reds and oranges — are not scattered as much by air molecules.” During sunrise and sunset, sunlight […]