Time Project - Week #35

This is another from my walks in the lovely spring weather.  It doesn't show the greening up aspect of spring.  The only color is a faint pale orange that I saw behind the scraped bark. Before all the leaves come out there is a rich layer to observe - a kind of subtext - the preparation or basis for the leafing and flowering. 

What I was seeing struck me as mark making and connected with a concept I've been thinking about lately which is how we "read" situations and objects and so much more.  I've been thinking about what the term "close reading" means.  Kay Dolezal