Foggy Morning with Sycamores

Sycamores and sage scrub in morning fog, Rancho Bernardo, California; November 2021.

At the lower elevation where we live, we get some autumnal moods from the Sycamores, Cottonwoods and Willows — splashes of color in an otherwise still pretty brown landscape, with no immediate relief in sight as most of November is now forecast to stay both drier and warmer than normal.

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The Impossible Photographs

Autumnal Poison-oak with Sycamore leaves, Rancho Bernardo, California; September 2021.

Here are some Southern California fall colors. :) This photo is from one of those “let’s not bring the camera” walks — on which one quite reliably finds something that looks interesting, of course! But we all have a camera with us nowadays all the time of course, and thanks to Lightroom Mobile, it’s possible to capture the raw sensor data too*.

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