Comments on: Spring Arrives in Central California http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2008/03/08/spring-arrives-in-central-california A daily photograph, news, observations, and ideas about photography Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: G Dan Mitchell http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2008/03/08/spring-arrives-in-central-california/comment-page-1#comment-211 G Dan Mitchell Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:27:11 +0000 http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2008/03/08/spring-arrives-in-central-california#comment-211 Hi John... Yes, it <i>is</i> green - what I refer to as "impossibly green," but it happens every spring in central California for the next month or so. Although I don't like in the snow, I get to the Sierra often enough to understand what you are saying about how it gets "old" before long. For my part, I'm hoping for at least one last bout of winter storms in California before the dry season begins. That workshop should be great fun. I've been to Mountain Light many times as I've passed through or stayed in Bishop on Sierra Nevada or Death Valley adventures. Wildflower season is an extended thing in California. It all depends where you go and when you go there. The desert wildflower season should be over by the time you get there but, of course, the peak of the High Sierra wildflowers will still be months away. At <i>some</i> elevation there should be some interesting flowers when you are there - I suspect that the Mountain Light folks will have some ideas about that. It could well be that there will some interesting displays at the lower elevations right there in Owens Valley. (BTW, autumn in California is a similar experience. I can see the beginnings of it sometimes as early as the end of August in the high country, though by September it is clear that the change is underway. By the end of September and early October the aspens color reaches its peak in the eastern Sierra. But even later than that the trees turn in the lower country, and in some coastal areas it won't happen until well into or near the end of November. Of course, to a New England guy, our fall displays probably don't seem very worthy... :-) Dan Hi John… Yes, it is green – what I refer to as “impossibly green,” but it happens every spring in central California for the next month or so. Although I don’t like in the snow, I get to the Sierra often enough to understand what you are saying about how it gets “old” before long. For my part, I’m hoping for at least one last bout of winter storms in California before the dry season begins.

That workshop should be great fun. I’ve been to Mountain Light many times as I’ve passed through or stayed in Bishop on Sierra Nevada or Death Valley adventures.

Wildflower season is an extended thing in California. It all depends where you go and when you go there. The desert wildflower season should be over by the time you get there but, of course, the peak of the High Sierra wildflowers will still be months away. At some elevation there should be some interesting flowers when you are there – I suspect that the Mountain Light folks will have some ideas about that. It could well be that there will some interesting displays at the lower elevations right there in Owens Valley.

(BTW, autumn in California is a similar experience. I can see the beginnings of it sometimes as early as the end of August in the high country, though by September it is clear that the change is underway. By the end of September and early October the aspens color reaches its peak in the eastern Sierra. But even later than that the trees turn in the lower country, and in some coastal areas it won’t happen until well into or near the end of November. Of course, to a New England guy, our fall displays probably don’t seem very worthy… :-)

Dan

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