Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

Thanks Tom!  Glad to hear your back is feeling a lot better.

I'm working the south side of Mud Run now.  Rather than moss on that side (as I did in the north), I've decided to mimic a photo found of the old, abandoned tunnel entrance upstream from Jim Thorpe at the start of the gorge.  Almost vertical rock with a variety of plant life and small trees anchoring themselves to bits and pieces of dirt. Demonstrates some of the wildness of the gorge - hard to believe a canal and then two railroads would occupy space with this wild section of the Lehigh River.


   

It's surprisingly hard to emulate this effect, and I guess it's because I lack some small, spindly trees with a minimum of leaf cover to add to the rock face.  I've been applying moss as shrubs directly to the rock face and adding some brown stuff for dirt.  Another case of "if at first you don't succeed...."  Another challenge, and what's life without those!