{"id":233,"date":"2006-10-05T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/falls-colors-south-fork-of-bishop-creek-canyon\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T08:00:01","slug":"falls-colors-south-fork-of-bishop-creek-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/falls-colors-south-fork-of-bishop-creek-canyon.html","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors, South Fork of Bishop Creek Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The south fork of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=bishop_creek_canyon__bishop__california__usa__location\">Bishop Creek Canyon<\/a> holds vast, thick groves of aspen trees (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Populus_tremuloides\">Populus tremuloides<\/a><\/em>).  Since aspen groves are clones, they all leaf out together in spring.  In fall they change color simultaneously, resulting in fantastic expanses of canyonsides covered in rich hues of yellow and orange, as if the countryside is aflame.  The photo below was taken just off the road to South Lake in the south fork of Bishop Creek Canyon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=17532\" title=\"Aspen trees turn yellow and orange in early October, South F...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/eastern-sierra-fall-color-photo-17532-345813.jpg\" alt=\"Aspen trees turn yellow and orange in early October, South Fork of Bishop Creek Canyon, Populus tremuloides, Bishop Creek Canyon, Sierra Nevada Mountains\" title=\"Aspen trees turn yellow and orange in early October, South Fork of Bishop Creek Canyon, Populus tremuloides, Bishop Creek Canyon, Sierra Nevada Mountains\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Aspen trees turn yellow and orange in early October, South Fork of Bishop Creek Canyon.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=17532\">17532<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/aspen_photo.html\" title=\"Aspen photos\">Aspen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Populus_tremuloides\" title=\"Populus tremuloides photos\"><i>Populus tremuloides<\/i><\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=bishop_creek_canyon_sierra_nevada_mountains&amp;city=bishop&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Bishop Creek Canyon, Sierra Nevada Mountains<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=bishop_creek_canyon__bishop__california__usa__location\">Bishop Creek Canyon photos<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/eastern_sierra_fall_color_photos.html\">Eastern Sierra fall color photos<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Populus_tremuloides\">Aspen photos (<em>Populus tremuloides<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The south fork of the Bishop Creek Canyon holds vast, thick groves of aspen trees (Populus tremuloides). Since aspen groves are clones, they all leaf out together in spring. In fall they change color simultaneously, resulting in fantastic expanses of canyonsides covered in rich hues of yellow and orange, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-photo-of-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}