Fall Color West Coast Style

We really don't get fall color around here to speak of. You need to drive toward the Sierras to get anything resembling the kind color of color you get back East, and even then it's got a washed out western feel to it. Our vigilant free press, always in search of a controversy, has helped us all out in our search for fall color by publishing the foliage smackdown. By any measure, though, this is pretty bad when it comes to fall colors to look forward to:

"Driving inland from the North Coast, Eureka to Redding, is gorgeous," Taggart said. "The pines pop with the deep red leaves of poison oak vines."

Poison oak climbing up bark beetle infested pines! West coast colors rock!!! Take that you snobby New Englanders.