The husband and I went leaf peeping in search of fall colors. Our journey took us from Sacramento up highway 50 in to the glorious Lake Tahoe valley. From there we headed on hwy 89 towards Marklieville for lunch at the Wolf Creek Restaurant and Bar and then up over hwy 4 and Ebbett’s Pass. This windy and steep road took us to the Arnold area and then in to the Calavaras region know for its famous jumping frogs and Big Trees. (Reminds me that I need to get to the Jumping Frog Festival one of these years.) The fall colors were really showing off through Calavaras and the hwy 49 gold country towns. Arnold, Murphys, Angel’s Camp, Sutter Creek, San Andreas, Volcano, and more are wonderful stops for food, antiques, and a stroll.
Just before dark we stopped in Plymouth for dinner at Taste and then headed home. This was a long drive taking us through three forests; the El Dorado, Toiyabe, and Stanislaus National Forests.
*Photos were pretty disappointing with the iPhone this time…The photos just don’t do it justice. Boo.
Hwy 89 just outside of Marklieville
Hwy 4 between Marklieville and Ebbett’s Pass
Random Piranha on hwy 4 between Ebbett’s Pass and Arnold.
Creek in Marklieville
I hope my Piranha rock qualifies for Cee’s Odd Ball Photo!
Bulldog Travels / Photos By Jenny 
Nice fall photos. Please take back your boo and apologise to your iPhone! 🙂
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Ha. Ok. I’ll do that right now!
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🙂
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Beautiful pictures, indeed!
Have a great day!
Arcane owl
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Thanks you too! It it colorful in your neck of the woods?
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Nice Autumn pictures. we have had an especially colourful display in the UK this year.
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Wonderful. Are the colors gone already for you?
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Not yet, we have an unusually mild spell of weather which keeps the leaves on the trees and on the ground. Looks good but bad for golf and losing balls!
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Great point. Break out the cheap ones this time of year.
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Beautiful all photos. The rock is interesting. 🙂
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Thanks. I thought it was funny and weird.
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Your photos are stunning!
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Thanks so very much! Is it still fall in your neck of the woods?
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It is, yes. However, all the leaves are almost gone so winter is coming soon.
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Thanks so much for playing this week. Great post.
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Photos were not bad. Give an idea. Landscape pictures normally don’t come out too well on an I-Phone (focal length or something). But those are all right. Looks like a nice ride.
🙂
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thank you…
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De rien. 🙂
(Also now I know someone from Sacramento, I’ll pay more attention next time I see The Mentalist… (Haha!)
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Beautiful colors!! ….I have to admit my favorite is the ‘random pirahna’ 😀
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Thanks, me too!
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We did that drive in reverse in June. I promised my cousin that we would come up for the Frog jump next year.
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We were thinking about going too. Never been! Frogs jump in May. Maybe we will meet you there.
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Hahaha, I love the piranha rock! Thanks for sharing your fall photos, too… I never get tired of looking at autumn colours 😀
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Me either! It’s my favorite time of year.
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Mine too 😀
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The golden leaves truly stole the show here!!
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Love the photos! And I did a double take when I saw the piranha rock! How awesome is that! 😊
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Super random huh? I spotted the eye as we drove by and we had to go back!
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Haven’t been towards this side during Fall, maybe next time. You should go towards Mono and Inyo county; great display of colours there. I have a post on that, check out!
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Just followed you. Great posts and seriously beautiful photos. Looking forward to seeing where you go next.
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Thank you so much! Future posts will be about my recent Euro trip as well as local weekend trips. 😊
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Looking forward to hearing all about it.
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That’s a really, really large piranha! I’d stay quite far away.
janet
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It was scary. But he was the one out of water!
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you might not think the photos do the leaves etc justice, but they do look fabulous..
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Amazing, wish it still looked like that here in Toronto. The drear has settled in for the season though…
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It’s starting to get cold here too. Hoping for a lot of rain this winter!
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Haha that’s Cali life I suppose. Up here, we hope for little in the way of snow storms (although who doesn’t want a snowy white Christmas?)
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I hear ya. We are just in such a drought we need the water and snow terrible. Normally I would wish it was a 90 degree winter but this year is different. 😉
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