Fall is here again

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
We have been extra dry and warm again this summer. And now we are once again into the fall "color change" The leaves started to change a couple weeks ago. The leaves go directly from green to the fall colors, and on a windy day with the major leaves still green the colored leaves blow off of the trees.
The wife and I were hoping to take a car trip to the North Shore to look at colors. We probably will still go but the outlook for fall colors is kind of bleak.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
This summer in southern Kalifornistan has been rather mild, temperature-wise. Humidity has also been significantly higher all summer as well, and who knows where THAT came from with the drought being what it is.

One good winter can make CA's water woes evaporate in a month's time. That has happened with some frequency over the decades, so I don't get all wrapped around an axle over the vicissitudes of desert living. It never dawns upon pundits to say out loud that it might be bad policy to house 19 million people in an econiche that produces enough water each year for 200,000 folks, but far be it from me to stand in the way of bulldozers and land barons.
 

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Yea Kevin around here the leaves started turning about 10 days ago as well. Our trees turn to yellow and give up. No orange or reds here. Sure miss the fall colors in the lower 48.
The tundra and willows do a nice job in the red colors, but that’s both north and south of here.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
At first I bought it said “Fail is here again” and all I could think was what did fivers kids try to do now?
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
We mostly have Aspen, Birch, Red/Swamp Oak. An they are all turning at the same time.
Its been so dry here this summer, A few of my Lilac bushes have died.
 
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fiver

Well-Known Member
nobody want's to know what any of them have been doing.
they break stuff, they don't do anything helpful, and the only communication that seems to get through is with the aid of a bull horn.
you know typical 30 sumthin year old stuff. [insert eye roll here]
 

Ian

Notorious member
We mostly have mountain juniper here and it is the same dark green all year. The hills look like heads of broccoli. Early mornings have been cooler the past few days, down in the 60s, but that's the only sign summer is starting to lose its grip. Hurricane supposed to hit the coast soon, we'll probably get more rain.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
No Fall color round here. Well, that's not entirely true -- the only native color change is the poison oak that starts turning orange and red, in July, causing hillsides to look like they have the measles. Native coastal live oak, pine, cypress, redwood and the scrub-laden hillsides are green all year, as are the non-native and invasive eucalyptus and acacia.

The next city over has London plane trees planted along some of its sidewalks, but their Fall color change is rather bland. The highway to the range has a half-mile section of planted sycamores that follow a seasonal creek, and their leaves turn an eye-pleasing yellow.