Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always loved trees. Even more fascinating to me is bark. I’m not referring to the sound a doglet makes; I’m referring to the ‘skin’ of a tree. Bark, to me = beautiful. Specifically, I loved birch trees. We had a large, undeveloped piece of land as part of our property and some sort of water spring that oozed up in one particular area. Around this spring,...

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