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

Digital Divide

Help save the Town Hall Theatre.

Visit PlumasArts.org and donate!

Dancing with the Stars (Astronomically)

Three Plumas County communities – Greenville, Portola, and Quincy – are participating in a groundbreaking astronomy research project supported by the National Science Foundation.  The RECON project is studying objects that orbit the sun out beyond the planet Neptune. To study these distant faint objects, citizen-scientists in each community use project-supplied equipment to record them when they move in front of stars – this is called an occultation – when they literally “dance with the stars”.  RECON stands for Research and Education Cooperative Occultation Network.  In addition to the research, education is a key objective of the project.  Science teachers at Quincy High School, Portola High School, Plumas Charter School in Greenville, and Feather River College are all part of RECON.

Dr. John Keller

Dr. John Keller, a planetary scientist and astronomy educator in the Physics Department at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, is one of the two principal investigators leading the RECON project.  On Thursday evening, September 12^th  Dr. Keller will give a free public lecture at Feather River College about the RECON project along with representatives from the Plumas County teams.  The presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. in room 103 on the lower level of the new FRC Learning Resource Center.  Following the lecture attendees are invited to a “star party” at the FRC observatory.  Interested people will also be given the opportunity to sign up for an ongoing Community Education class that will meet every other week from September 26th through December 5^th taught by Charles Arrowsmith, the astronomy instructor at FRC, and Michelle Callahan of Portola High School.  

Those who take the RECON community education course will learn more about the science behind the project, how to use the equipment, and how to analyze the results.  They will be able and encouraged to participate in the ongoing observation campaigns as a part of their community team.  The community education class is being offered free of charge to qualifying high school students and for only $20 to the general public.

You can read more about the RECON project at http://tnorecon.net/ and you can email RECON.Quincy@gmail.com for information about the class.  Quincy RECON is also on Google+.

Music, Music, Music, Music

In Quincy the 4th of July celebration goes for four days (and nights).
If you're not here, you're you're missing the music and a lot more.

Check it out at HighSierraMusic.com.

You can hear some of the music some of the time online at FATMusicRadio.com.

Emily's Window

According to the note on the door, she is closed because she is still sick.  

I am recovering from a cold myself (I can't remember the last time I had one), 

but her window in the sunlight made me feel better.  

They are only paper flowers growing beside a paper dress, 

but as with the Paper Moon, you can believe that Spring is near.

Emily's Garden

Vote for Quincy

Vote for Quincy, CA as America's coolest small town!
Vote once a day, every day, for the next dozen days.

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.

REMEMBER to Vote for Quincy, CA as America's coolest small town!

Vote once a day, every day, for the next dozen days.

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.

More Than Books

College should be about a lot more than book-learning.

And here is more from the "million acre classroom" at FRC.

Weekend Class: Beginner Whitewater Kayaking from ORL Feather River College on Vimeo.

More on Facebook and at www.saylorflett.com.

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.

Sidewalk Signs

From the West end of Main Street to the Post Office.

"Friends don't let friends shop at chain stores."

"Fresh Healthy Lunches ..."

"Doing food justice."

"Friends don't let friends shop at chain stores."

"Foster Parents Needed"

"Gypse Rose Sale"

Oh, it says "flower" POT SALE!

"Now Taking Walk-ins"

Spring Cleaning

The early bird gets the discount, ...

and a clean chimney.

Million Acre Classroom

Feather River College
Outdoor Recreation Leadership

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

iTax

The good news is that April 15th will be held on the 17th this year. The bad news is that it is already the 15th. If you need help, here are a few suggestions.

HSMF

22nd annual

High Sierra Music Festival

July 5-8, 2012

Quincy, California

HighSierraMusic.com

A Little Sparkle

Warmer, better weather than in 2010 or 2009.

Greeters

Halloween greeters at downtown businesses.

Ada's Place

Emily's Garden and Pangaea

Emily's Garden

Main & Bradley St. (For Lease!)

Great Northern Hair Company

Bank of America

Carey Candy Co.

West Wing View

A photo of the Tree taken by Mike Nellor from the front of the West Wing cottage at Ada's Place this morning.

Time to wake up those Leaf-Peepers and tell them to hit the road up to Q-topia!

Signs of Summer