The Tree: 2015

Once again watch as the famous "Judge Thieler Sugar Maple" transitions from summer through autum and into winter.



Below are links to the photos from previous years to help plan your leaf-peeper visit or to see any effects from our ongoing drought.

• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009

Shifting Seasons

Watch again as the famous "Judge Thieler Sugar Maple" transitions from summer through autum and into winter.



Below are links to the photos from previous years for those who want to plan a leaf-peeper visit for the days of peak color.

Notice that in 2013 the peak color was more than a week earlier than prior years, perhaps because of the ongoing drought.

• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009

Star Power

Getting ready to Sparkle.

Jack O'post 2013

DIY: lamp post, orange light, electrical tape, scissors.

• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008

Time to Change

It is time to again to watch the daily progression of the famous
"Judge Thieler Sugar Maple" from Summer into Fall.

Below are links to the photos from previous years for those who want to

plan a leaf-peeper visit for the days of peak color, or those who want to

search for evidence of global climate change in year-to-year data.

• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009

About Judge Thieler.

Vote for Quincy

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Here are scenes from today's first annual Quincy Groundhog Fever Festival.

Everything is hi-tech.

The groundhog was carved to order - with a chainsaw.

  For a few dollars, everyone gets to be a judge
  of the chili cook-off (above).






  Captain Cupcake (left and below)
  didn't win the sweet eatin' contest.
  He only ate cupcakes, not the donuts.
  Maybe next year (or the next repeat of this day :-)

Notice the prone snow-monster.

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Peak Peeping Season

If the past is any predictor of the future, this weekend may be the time to see the venerable "Judge Thieler sugar maple" near its peak. 
Even the BlackOakNaturalist is making time for the maple as evidenced by this shot on his blog today.

Below is this year's day-by-day leaf-by-leaf-turning slideshow.

After the sugar maples' peak relatively early in the season, there's still a month

of Awesome Autumn around Quincy and all of Plumas County.

Here are links to the photos from previous years for comparison.

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009

By the way, the Al spelled his name "Thieler", and you should too.

Autumn Leaves

Actually, Summer is what has taken leave, and with its leaving
it is time again to document the the annual autumnal display of
the famous "Judge Thieler Sugar Maple".

Here is the slide show that will be updated regularly.

Below are links to the photos from previous years for those who either

want to plan their visit for the days of peak color, or who want to

search for evidence of global climate change in year-to-year data.

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009

And here just for fun is a simulated 3D view of the tree at the end of summer.

O-rings

I was going to post this photo when I took it the other day, but in the spirit of the NBC Olympics, I decided to delay the broadcast.

HSMF

Even if you're not at the 22^nd annual High Sierra Music Festival, you can still listen to some of it on Fat Music Radio.

Portions of the broadcast will also be carried on KQNY in Quincy (KQNY live stream), KVMR in Nevada City, KZFR in Chico, and KFOK in Georgetown.

Follies

It would be folly to miss the Quincy Star Follies. This year, the Follies will be at the Plumas-Sierra Fairgrounds in Serpilio Hall. Show times are Friday, May 4, at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 5, at 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available at Feather River Fitness, Carey Candies, The Bike Shop, Pangaea, Bank of America, The Drunk Brush and Traci's Sweet Surprises as well as at the door!

Visit the Quincy Star Follies website for more information.

Logo by Juliet Beer

Quilting B

The local barn quilting enthusiasm has grown and has spread from town (previous post) to actual barns, and to the town blog, and the newspaper.







Also there was a 45° rotation at Ada's Place.

Barn Quilts

I grew up in Pennsylvania, so I know about hex signs and distelfinks and such.

But today, walking to the grocery store with my canvas bag (it is Earth Day after all), I noticed that barn quilts have begun to appear here in Q-topia.

This one is a Japanese lantern motif on the Hop Sing cottage at Ada's Place.

Mike & Valerie caught in the act of "quilting" another Ada's Place cottage.

Scary

And finally the most scary of all:

Fair Parade

A somewhat shorter parade than usual this year because of the fires that started yesterday afternoon in the Feather River Canyon. The Forest Service is busy fighting them, and the associated road closure prevented some from getting here.

Look here for last year's parade.

County Site

Plumas County has a shiny new website, www.plumascounty.us

Come for a visit, or more.

I'm not sure that I would have called Q-topia "quaint", but I must admit that it is a much better marketing word than "quirky".

More little flags

Not the same, but not different.

Driving the Message

WHY?

More flags here and there.

Peace wagon(eer).

Jaw-O'-Lantern

For some reason everything you say sounds like jawboning.
or
'ears to an 'appy 'alloween!

County Fair Parade

Celebrating the sesquicentennial of the Plumas County Fair.

Photo album link.