Pine Valley hike...in the rain!

We went up to Pine Valley for a little hike/picnic last Saturday and it was so wonderful after some much needed and long prayed for rain had been happening for a few days before.  We just hiked up a wilderness trail that seems to be getting lost in the foliage.  We went as far as we could and then crossed the river to come back a little different way after we ate our yummy lunch.  During lunch we could see the clouds moving in and soon after we started hiking back it started raining lightly.  It felt so good to have that coming down on us.  It's been SO LONG since this poor area has had rain.  Everything was looking revived and beautiful!  It was very reviving to us...but didn't make us beautiful! We are so blessed to have Pine Valley Mountain so nearby to revive us from the desert's heat.  

Notes for this picture:  I had never seen the little pink things that are on that log before.  After posting it on Facebook, someone wondered what they were and someone else told us.  They are Wolf's Milk Mushrooms - non-edible.  The picture of the 3 trees is trying to show, but is hard to see, that the 2 trees have actually grown together.  It was so crazy to see it.