Today is a nice day with temperatures in the 40's and no rain - a good day for a walk in the woods. I find the woods beautiful this time of year with the varied silhouettes of the leafless trees. However, I never noticed much about actual details of the bark and branches until a few years ago. Below is a post I did a five years ago looking at the bark of trees in my yard.
I better get going if I'm going to take advantage of the weather and do some bark examination.
Until next time.
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A Second Look--January 21, 2015
When Aunt Martha was in college, she was studying to be a naturalist. One day I overheard her talking to a classmate about identifying trees in the winter and using the feel and look of their bark to help with that. My ears perked up because that was a new concept for me. I thought that all bark looked basically the same--gray/brown and rough. At least it did until I took a Second Look. And by golly, there were a lot of differences. However over the years, I still haven't paid much any attention to trees and their bark. So decades later during these gray days, I thought it was time to take a Second Look at some of the trees in my yard.
Here are some trees and their bark that
I saw this week during a Second Look.
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| Dogwood |
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| Holly |
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| Oak |
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| Juniper |
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| Silver Maple |
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| Pine |
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| Theodore did the bark investigation with me and took some of the pictures. |
