Fall colors still at their height in Berkeley, California

Check out landscape designer Robert Trachtenberg’s photo essay at Berkleyside.com: “Spectacular fall colors on view for all in Berkeley” — a useful reminder for those of us in colder, drearier climes that autumn is not yet over.

Autumn in Los Angeles

Sweetgum and tulip tree reveal their charms to a British ex-pat tree-lover. (Living in close proximity to tulip trees myself, I can confirm that yes, their flowers are just as spectacular as her photos from the Bath Botanical Gardens suggest.) Her blog, Treeaware, is the latest addition to our blogroll.

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Fall colors in Puget Sound

Last month when the ornamental maples and dogwood were at their peak of color in Dave’s garden on South Fidalgo Island, Washington state, he took a series of nice close-up shots.