Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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It's been a multi-year labor of love, Mikey.  The picture below was circa 2015...

   

I made my first puffball tree (those you see in the background), and I reckon that last one was installed last year near the coal breaker in Hazleton.  I think I made every one using the same bag of white polyfill I purchased at Walmart using the technique in Dave Frary's "How to Build Model Railroad Scenery".  Whenever I made a batch of them, I filled up a cardboard box and pulled out what I needed for each individual project until the box was about empty before making some more.  I mixed those in with torn pieces of different color mosses as I installed the background trees, which is something I'd certainly suggest - from far away a mountain looks like all of the trees are the same color, but up close, there are quite a number of different textures and colors to trees, especially late in the summer/early fall which I model. 

Most of the foreground trees really don't require a whole lot of patience once I get all of my materials out, but they are the product of a few years of experimentation, so I guess that requires some patience.  Patience is a thing that pays off though once you've created a whole hill or mountain by mixing them all together.