San Diego Autumn
My blogroll is bursting lately with beautiful autumn posts and pictures. After so many years on the East Coast, I’m still not used to fall here in Southern California.
Around here, autumn is blue and green
and hot pink
and candy-apple red
and sunny gold.
It’s definitely fall, though: nippy mornings, Santa-Ana-hot afternoons, fruits ripening on the neighbors’ trees.
The bees here are pink and white this time of year, did you know that?
This one could be a New England forest floor carpeted with pine needles
but really it’s a close-up of a palm tree’s trunk.
Ah, here’s an honest-to-goodness autumn color shot:
This one seems more like spring-comes-to-the-woods than suburban-yard-in-October.
But these are San Diego’s true colors:
We took these photos on a walk around the block earlier this week.
It wore some of us out.
Jennifer says:
How beautiful! It’s that way here too – the autumn flowers are so much brighter and richer than the spring flowers even. And no sign of bright leaves until Thanksgiving. It’s delightful in its own way. Your sunny gold is particularly pretty. 🙂
On October 11, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Gail says:
Oh, that makes me miss San Diego. I’m so curious what part you’re in. I grew up in Chula Vista, stayed in CA for college and then fell in love and let my husband take me to Pittsburgh, and now Connecticut… what was I thinking? Just kidding. I’ll follow him anywhere.
On October 11, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Jeanne says:
There’s that napping child again. How do you DO it? LOL.
On October 12, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Melissa Wiley says:
ROFL, Jeanne–I included that shot just for you. 🙂
On October 12, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Mary Chris says:
Now I’m missing Autumn in San Diego too! Enjoy a walk on the beach and a carne asada burrito for me.
On October 19, 2008 at 5:52 pm