Autumn Walk: North Burn of Rubislaw
Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 12:50AM 
On Sunday, October 26, 2014, I walked out the door and across the street into an autumnal Johnston Gardens.
Johnston Gardens is beautiful. I have seen it in Summer and Autumn now.
It was a cold day . . . but a few summer flowers still clung to their branches.
The pond was full of jousting and frolicking ducks.
A blazing red tree in Johnston Gardens.
A leaf covered path leads out from Johnston Gardens that follows the North Burn of Rubislaw.
The burn runs behind, and below rows of suburban granite stone houses.
The burn would now and then be clogged with leaves and sticks.
With the leaves off the trees, the moss was in full growth mode.
Walker Dam on the burn.
Autumn's red berries. My plan for the day was to take a long walk to the big park two miles away . . . but I became distracted by the amazing tree bark textures around me . . . and instead spent the better part of an hour studying bark and taking photographs.
Dr. Jeff Harper
North Burn of Rubislaw Tree Bark Study:
Tree bark is very interesting . . . .
Bark holds a kind of history of the tree . . .
Bark on different trees enjoy very differnt lives . . . here, some kind of symbiosis . . .
Bark is used by other plants . . .
Bark can be very colorful . . .
Bark image complexity . . .
Bark can be anthropomorphic . . . .
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