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In my 10 years of offering the Fall Foliage Hotsheet that reports on fall conditions throughout California, I can't recall EVER getting a report about Palomar Mountain. The trees in that area consist primarily of pines, although there are a few sycamores and some varieties of maples. There are also lots of bracken ferns, which turn a golden yellowish-brown. The sycamores and maples turn a dull yellow-brown. The pines . . . well, the dark green year-round color CAN make a good backdrop for your shots of more colorful trees. Oh, and the poison oak can turn a lovely shade of red . . .
I did a quick Google search for the words <palomar mountain fall foliage> and these two small articles might help you:
November 1997 article regarding fall color around San Diego . . .
<http://www.sandiegomag.com/forums/outdoors/nov97.shtml>
An article about Pine Creek Road in Pine Valley . . .
<http://www.sdreader.com/php/bestshow.php?year=2003&id=363>
But other than that, I didn't come up with much else. Let me know if you find any color and I'll post it right away on the Hotsheet. It'll be a first!
Carol Leigh
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The report we received April 2 said that the wildflower season there (like most of California) arrived early and that the flowers weren't all that spectacular. Visit the Wildflower Hotsheet for the full details at <http://www.calphoto.com/wflower.htm>. Hope this helps!
Carol Leigh
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My resource every year for the Antelope Valley is Milt Stark, president of the Poppy Reserve. He lets me know as soon as HE knows what's going to happen and I immediately post it on my Wildflower Hotsheet at http://www.calphoto.com/wflower.htm . . . A variety of wildflower reports have already started coming in (although nothing yet from the Antelope Valley -- way too early) and are posted there. In addition, at the end of the current reports, I've posted a recap of LAST year's bloom throughout California. Hope all this helps you make your plans. It's a great resource for photographers, something I've been doing every year since 1996.
Carol Leigh
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There are "butterfly trees" in Pacific Grove (next to Monterey) where you can see and photograph long strands of butterflies in the morning before they warm up and begin flittering about . . .
Here's a website with the information you need:
http://www.pacificgrove.org/butterfly_watching.htm
-- Carol Leigh
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For photos of egrets/herons in trees, you may wish to go to the San Diego Wild Animal Park or even SeaWorld. The birds there are accustomed to people and so are fairly close to you. There are egret rookeries at Ramer and Finney Lakes at the Salton Sea. I believe they nest there in May and June. The birds are much farther away from you here than they are at SDWAP or SeaWorld, and you'll need at least a 400mm lens. Hope this helps!
-- Carol Leigh
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Things are really cranking in Death Valley and Anza-Borrego. Still too early for Joshua Tree and the Antelope Valley. You can read reports from photographers all over the state of California on my wildflower hotsheet at http://calphoto.com/wflower.htm
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For fall foliage updates in California, you can check out the Fall Foliage Hotsheet at http://calphoto.com where photographers report on what they're seeing throughout the state. There's also a synopsis of where the leaves were turning and when in 1996, which may help you make your plans for this year. It's a tad early -- things will begin picking up within the next two weeks.
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I just discovered this post, alas, a month too late for our friend who was looking for wildflowers in Yosemite. The article I wrote for "California Photographer" (a newsletter, not a magazine) appeared in the July 1996 issue. I'm more than happy to reproduce it here for those of you who may be visiting Yosemite NEXT July . . . Here's the complete text of the article:
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For photographing wildflowers this July in Yosemite, there are a few particularly spectacular sites that you shouldn't miss. You'll find a number of sites along Tioga Road, some places on Glacier Point road, the area around Crane Flat and in Summit Meadow. You can drive to all of these spots, get out and shoot. Here's what you'll find.
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Along Tioga Road: Check out the area around Yosemite Creek (where Tioga Road crosses) for displays of blue penstemon, beautiful little blue-violet flowers. Continuing on Tioga Road, west of Yosemite Creek, near Smoky Jack Campground, you'll find lots of pink monkeyflowers, with colors ranging from red to pink to slightly yellow.
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Continuing on toward Lukens Lake, you'll find lungworts to photograph (lungwort is kind of a disgusting name -- you can call them by their more user-friendly name: mountain bluebells). You'll find them north of the road as you walk toward the lake.
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Washington lilies (looking a little like mini Easter lilies) grow all over the place around Crane Flat in July, so you may wish to explore this area. (They also grow off Wawona Road, near the intersection of Glacier Point Road.)
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Glacier Point Road: Take a drive up Glacier Point Road where, just beyond the intersection with Wawona Road, you can photograph the tall, dramatic-looking yellow California coneflowers. Monkeyflowers and cornlilies also grow in this vicinity.
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Continue up Glacier Point Road to Badger Pass Meadows to photograph cornlilies. Then, just beyond the Badger Pass Ski Area you'll come to Summit Meadow -- THE place to find all sorts of flowers in bloom right now, especially shooting stars, with their pink, winglike petals swooping backward and the reddish-purple flowers of fireweed.
Palomar Mountain Fall Color
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Here are the links that somehow went missing in my previous post:
November 1997 article regarding fall color around San Diego . . .
http://www.sandiegomag.com/forums/outdoors/nov97.shtml
An article about Pine Creek Road in Pine Valley . . .
http://www.sdreader.com/php/bestshow.php?year=2003&id=363
And if they don't show up this time, I'm going to look like a total idiot! My apologies.
Carol Leigh
www.calphoto.com/fall.htm
www.photoexplorations.com