Autumnal Colors Grace Los Angeles

For those who couldn’t fly east or travel north to view the fall foliage, Los Angeles has come of age in this department. Liquidambar (faux maple) trees and Chinese magnolia have sprung up across the Los Angeles Basin and San Fernando Valley with a vengeance.

Venture over Mulholland Drive or take the Ventura Freeway through the Valley and the view is spectacular! Reds, oranges and yellows dot the landscape as far as the eye can see. Trees in the warehouse store on Sepulveda Boulevard and Oxnard Street mimic Vermont or New Hampshire. The areas immediately east of UCLA, streets in Brentwood Glen and foliage in the Baldwin Hills-View Park community are spectacularly crimson and gold too.

So the next time someone says L.A. has no seasons, take a picture of our answer to New England and show them we’re in the running-- with autumn in all its splendor.

Don A. Norman

Los Angeles