Busting the Myth That California Doesn’t Have Cold-Season Colors

California has leaf peepers, too, they’re just working on a more subtle level.

A Canada goose swims in a pond reflected by the fall colors of nearby trees at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group/TNS

By John Metcalfe The Mercury News

SAN JOSE, Calif.—If Vermont has leaf peepers, what does California have? Redwood watchers? Cactus contemplators?