… in the forest at my university.
bark
coterie of colors …
… resting on a piece of bark in the forest at my university.
bark …
… a posterized look at the bark of a tree on the Nevada-Oregon border.
contorted …
… bark on a tree west of Burns, Oregon.
fungicles …
I don’t know what it is, but it’s weeping from under the bark of a downed tree in the forest at my university. Note little black bugs …
cute, but …
… don’t touch. Those hairs detach and irritate human skin.
torn …
… bark on a downed tree in the forest at my university.
whirlpool …
… on the underside of bark from a birch.
waves …
… on the underside of bark from a dead birch.
the underside …
… of the bark of an old, crumbling birch tree. This is an area about two inches across.
woodland lava …
… well, no, of course. Bark.
birch …
… a yellow birch (so my botanical Ph.D. pal tells me) off Route 8A in Heath, Massachusetts.