Tree Bark Texture

This is the bark of a tree I found when we were last up on Mount Tolmie. I have cropped out everything but the bark texture and turned it horizontally, saturated it just a bit. It is a naturally lovely colored bark on an evergreen tree. Wish I knew what it was.

We have had some cold weather recently. It seems I have been ever so busy lately. Trying to learn to shoot videos with my little camera. And learn how to edit them in Windows Movie Maker. I am not making too much progress. When I get a half decent one, I should like to load it to YouTube, I think. I need to learn a lot more about it yet, though.

I have almost finished my income tax. Horrible convoluted crap on the forms. So ridiculous.

The daffodils, arabis, anemones, hellebores, polyanthus and other flowers are making a lovely show in the garden despite the cold weather. My camillias will soon be finished.

I have loaded all the photos - 41 of them -- to the March grid. Next month's grid should be interesting. Its in a rather rough area of town though. I am not quite sure I want to be wandering around there by myself.

Cyrus's new photo upload site is looking better and better all the time. I might well be away when it comes on line though, it seems, from the way things are going. It IS a HUGE site, so it will take a bit of time to build it. Steve C. has some absolutely gorgeous photos from his last trip to China.

The tree

It was a lovely sunny day with big white fluffy clouds. A bit crisp. But just perfect for raking leaves. I have raked up all of them that have fallen, so far. There are still about one quarter of the tree's leaves left to fall.

The three photos above are from a tree that I see out my dining room window. The one with the leaves framing the tree in a sunset is a composite of two photos I shot at the same time. I could not get the background and the foreground to work out in one photo. The leaves are from the tree in my front yard and the tree is about half a mile away.

Cathy H. passed away yesterday, just the day after her mother's funeral. So sad. We won't be going back for the service.