I went on a little 2 hour/23 mile ride yesterday, up a road called China Grade. It’s a fun road that goes from Hwy 236/Big Basin Way to Hwy 236, avoiding most of Big Basin state park. Unfortunately, a big chunk of the road is blocked off with a gate. 8 months later, the signs of the fire are very sobering, there is a whole lot of dead vegetation, as we enter into this year’s fire season, after a dry winter. On the way, I stopped and took this photo of where a redwood had grown around some barbed wire: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/51144905866/in/album-72157719102686925/ For those that are interested, the full set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719102686925 More documentary than artistic. I just hope that these stay as “after” rather than becoming “before” photos. -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com

Very interesting set. Thanks for sharing. What are the bright red spots on the tree trunks? Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 3:36 PM Larry Colen <lrc@red4est.com> wrote: > I went on a little 2 hour/23 mile ride yesterday, up a road called China > Grade. It’s a fun road that goes from Hwy 236/Big Basin Way to Hwy 236, > avoiding most of Big Basin state park. Unfortunately, a big chunk of the > road is blocked off with a gate. 8 months later, the signs of the fire are > very sobering, there is a whole lot of dead vegetation, as we enter into > this year’s fire season, after a dry winter. > > On the way, I stopped and took this photo of where a redwood had grown > around some barbed wire: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/51144905866/in/album-72157719102686925/ > > For those that are interested, the full set: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719102686925 > > More documentary than artistic. I just hope that these stay as “after” > rather than becoming “before” photos. > > -- > Larry Colen > lrc@red4est.com > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.

> On Apr 28, 2021, at 2:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmatyola@gmail.com> wrote: > > Very interesting set. Thanks for sharing. > > What are the bright red spots on the tree trunks? I believe that those are trees marked for removal https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/thousands-of-trees-damaged-in-czu-fires-being-cut-down/ I just asked on a local facebook group, because some of the things marked are old tree stumps. It might just be marking trees that have been checked. >> >> For those that are interested, the full set: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157719102686925 -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com