Entries by John Poimiroo

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Owens Valley Soft and Lovely

Bishop color spotter Gary Young drove down to the Owens River before work, yesterday morning and returned with these beautiful shots of soft, lovely fall color. The pond shots are from Rawson Ponds near the Owens River (Between East Line Rd and Warm Springs Rd, southeast of Bishop) and the road with the Eastern Sierra […]

Frost on the Pumpkin

Will there be frost on the pumpkin by Halloween? According to reports received from color spotters, it’s already been happening in the Eastern Sierra, where nighttime temperatures are now in the 20s and dropping each night. For Halloween, post your best pumpkin shot… pumpkin patches, carved pumpkins, plastic pumpkins, with CFC creds to anyone who […]

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Gold Country Just Starting

A Sunday drive confirmed today that the Gold Country is just starting. Apple Hill, Pleasant Valley, Newtown Road (Placerville) and Mormon Island Wetland (Folsom) are showing hints of gold, but not enough to push any of these areas to Patchy. Pleasant Valley and Apple Hill showed the most color with wild cucumber in patchy change from […]

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June Is Busting Out All Over

We’re beginning to receive reports and photos from color spotters who visited June Lake in the Eastern Sierra and who say it’s as good as it gets. David Olden sent this image of willows reflected just south of Silver Lake.  The area is still just turning, though conditions vary greatly throughout the Loop, “from green […]

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Bishop Creek Continues To Deliver

Color spotter Gary Young of Bishop headed up the Bishop Creek Canyon yesterday and sent back these images of Intake II and Hwy 168 between Intake II and Aspendell. Though the canyon is largely past peak, pockets of color provide beautiful imagery, as Gary found. Intake II is one of those locations that most people […]

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Postcard: Celestial Cascade

The Shasta Cascade oughta be called the Celestial Cascade, considering what amazing dark sky viewing and photography is available there.  It’s even better when a glimpse of fall color makes it into a photograph. Here’s an image that Cory Poole took this past Sunday night of the Earth rotating under the stars at the confluence […]