Passing by a young river birch, I noticed that its bark was peeling off.
The late afternoon sun turned the loose bark into tongues of fire running up and down the branches.
Or is it a papyrus scroll holding ancient secrets to be deciphered?
Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Bark.
The Beauty Along the Road 
Lovely images. Not often you catch them at that tender stage when the light still passes through them. All my images of peeled birch bark are just white on one side, brown on the other!
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This is a fairly young tree that has overstayed its welcome in my garden as it is getting much too big. But I do love the bark…
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Very nice photos!
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Thank you.
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I enjoy backlighting, but it never had occurred to me that you could backlight bark. It’s a beautiful photo, and very unusual.
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It really caught my eye and, luckily, I had my camera in tow….
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Beautiful capture Annette. I love how the sun is making the bark glow.
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Such fine photos!
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Beautiful Annette. I love birtch trees we don’t have much of them here.
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Very nice catch! The colour of the sunlit bark is amazing.
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Just loved the images.
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Thank you, Moushmi, for stopping by and leaving your comment.
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What beautiful translucence and color!
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Thank you, Maria, I was struck by that also.
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The colour of the bark in the sunlight is just gorgeous isn’t it? 🙂
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yes, it was impossible to miss!
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Having caught up with some of your blog posts, I’m impressed with how you turn things that others might find irrelevant and mundane into a vivid portrait by prose. Looking forward to more
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Thank you, Dr. Reen, for your astute observation. I do enjoy paying attention to small details, it enriches and informs the overall experience. This (Thingvellir) was the most impressive area for me: https://beautyalongtheroad.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/transmogrification-iceland/
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What a lovely summary of your time in Iceland, I have similar thoughts of being capaulted back through time to a land that time forgot. The first part of my short time in Iceland is coming out tomorrow, please do check it out also 🙂
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looking forward to it.
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The wait is over 😜.
http://drreenabroad.com/2017/04/02/iceland-the-land-that-froze-me-the-beginning/
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