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For those of you who asked, thanks for your patience. My hosting provider finally appears to have gotten their act together and fixed the major problems on my website — and the Sierra Nevada Fall Color page is now available at the correct URL: http://www.gdanmitchell.com/equipment-reports-tests-and-commentary/sierra-nevada-fall-color
I'll make some minor updates later today. Then I'll be in the Sierra briefly mid-week (going to visit the Ansel Adams Gallery where five of my prints are in a show closing later this week), and this will give me a chance to get a more immediate feel for the early prospects for fall color. I'll be up there again a week later for a longer visit, and I expect to see — and report on — more early signs.
It is typical to start seeing a few of the early indications by now. In fact, I can usually spot them by about the end of August. Sometime in early September we can frequently find a few isolated aspen trees that show just a bit of color, sometimes trees that live in more stressed areas. Last year, after four years of drought, there were more early trees than usual, though the less-stressed trees continued to produce color well into October, providing a very long color season. This year I expect that some of the stressed trees, especially farther south on the east side, will evolve somewhat like last year. I'm hopeful that some of the more northerly trees, where there was more precipitation this year, may move back to a somewhat more familiar color change schedule. (Overall, the onset of color has been gradually shifting a bit earlier.)
San Francisco Bay Area folks might be interested in some book talks that I'm doing at local REI stores in the next few weeks. (Connected with my Sierra Fall color book published by Heyday Press.)
- September 14: 7:00 PM at the Mountain View REI store, Charleston Plaza, 2450 Charleston Rd, Mountain View.
- September 15: 7:00 PM at the San Francisco REI store, 2180 Bryant St., San Francisco.
- September 20: 7:00 PM at the Saratoga REI store, 400 El Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose.
Dan
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