I was reading about how our color change happens in fall with the leaves and at what altitude.
I looked at photos from last year and it appears are colors are a behind what they were last season here in the mountains. I still have plenty of leaves on my wild lilac tree where last year there were only a few left at this time. Anyway - these photo are from Lake ARrowhead where i went walking yesterday. I hadn't seen it quite this colorful in all the time I've lived here. The black oaks are crazy gold and yellow right now. The aspens turned awhile back and seem to be done. Dogwoods were the first to show colors and now are bare also.
Amazing spectacles of leaves changing color can be found in Sequoia and national parks on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains east of San Joaquin Valley. Look for a rainbow of dogwoods, black oaks, aspen and black cottonwood. Fall color starts in August at about 10,000 feet and drops by elevation at a rate of 500 to 1,000 feet a week for 3 months.
