January 1, 2015

Sun, wind, blue-sky, temperature – 32F.  Midday of the New Year of Trees at Secrest Arboretum and the beginning of this journal. Winterberry holly berries are bright red and sherbet-orange. Mushrooms glisten on oak stump. Shadows lengthen from the Dawnredwood Grove. Witchhazel flowers are still tight of bud. Feature for today is bark: paperbark maple, river birch, stewartia; winter shine. Call Ken Cochran from Secrest on his first day as amateur curator.    

 

River birch 1-1-15

Dawnredwood shadows with arborvitae in foreground 1-1-15

Paperbark maple bark 1-1-15

Quercus with fungus 1-1-15

 

Stewartia bark 1-1-15

Witchhazel buds unopened 1-1-15