JPR Photography

Still beautiful, but too many barren reminders.

I was spared, but the hillsides are bare. There is new growth, as you can see from the photos, but the magnificent Ponderosa pines are gone. Some oaks and redwoods survive, but the new growth will create an entirely different biosphere from the dense pines and firs. I’m losing Ponderosas at my own place due to the bark beetles because climate c…[Read more]

2020 is going to be very slim for Napa Valley Cabernets. Growers lost their crops to the fire either being burned or because they couldn’t get into the vineyards to harvest, or because of  smoke taint.

Too many in the Northwest as well.

I’m not sure what they call it when they harvest a new batch of grapes, but …..What a year.

And yes, when the population of humans crashes, they will have their day.

I just like to photograph them. Interesting critters, though. They may be the salvation of the earth.

Did you take a spore print?

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I don’t eat. The other place used to have chanterelles and occasionally a morel or two.

And the last one looks downright poisonous!

I see these some times in my area.

Makes the world seem….. “In Ordnung”