Went in search of after-the-rain mushrooms today.

[NV Whino]

Didn't find any mushrooms, but I did find some lingering color.




Some puddles.


A little bit of fallen everything.


And some holes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thanks for the fascinating photos! These are great.

[Adsos Letter]

2. Gorgeous, NV Whino, and captures perfectly the feel around here after a rain.

Reminds me of the area around Los Posadas.

All very nice.

[NV Whino]

3. Yep, Las Posadas.

[Adsos Letter]

4. My dad was the Fire Captain at the CDF station and experimental forest there back in the 1970's-80's

We used to go mushroom hunting on the flats/plateau around the station after a rain. An old Italian gentleman showed my dad which ones were safe.

Found lots of arrowheads around there, too.

And rattlesnakes. More than a few.

[NV Whino]

5. Never encountered a rattlesnake there.

Nor an arrowhead, for that matter.

[Adsos Letter]

6. The rattlers were always small

Generally between about 12"-18". They often had a kind of pinkish cast to them.

I admit I picked up any arrowheads or scrapers I found. Old bottles too, from a homestead that used to be on the property.

[NV Whino]

7. I haven't been to the homestead site in many years.

I think it is the prospect of climbing back up the hill that deters me.

[Adsos Letter]

8. It is a hike, and the road is full of switchbacks iirc.

We used to just drive down there.

There was an old cabin out by the front barbed wire fence, by the las Posadas road. Long since gone.

[Hoppy]

9. Photographers will go to extremes to get that photo....

It was about 15 years ago and the article was in the N.J. papers.

N.J. has only a few Timber Rattlesnakes and they are endangered. Idiot was walking in the hills by the Delaware Water Gap and he encountered one. Problem was, the snake wasn't in the proper light to take a good photo.

So, our hero reached out to "adjust" the snake. He ended up in hospital and with a fine of $2,500. for tampering with an endangered species.

[NV Whino]

10. Ha!

I let the rattlers adjust themselves.

[alfredo]

11. I really like that second image. Nice tones.

[NV Whino]

12. It was one of those pleasant surprises

Something draws you to take the shot. You think, meh. You get it on the computer and say, hmmm. A little tweak here and there and suddenly you have something interesting. I am quite pleased with the outcome myself.

[alfredo]

13. You take snapshots with a camera, photographs in the darkroom. (old saying)