Mr. Tree—at his base

@tdaug80 Tim’s challenge to me was to to take a close up of an interesting part of a tree. I know very little about trees, or horticulture in general, so I don’t know what the orange spots are here on one part of the tree’s root base.

[Mary Siegle]

@tdaug80 another part of “Mr. Tree” (posted to Friday’s date 4/8)

[Issi Bannerman]

Not sure what that is either, but it's a very old looking tree. Nice.

[Susan Wakely]

It looks like a lichen but not sure.

[katy]

I was going to agree with @wakelys Whatever it is it gives a very colorful texture to your photo

[haskar]

Nice lichen. Lovely details.

[Jim R]

@mcsiegle Hi Mary. I have had a great time going through your photos. There are a number that I am going to steal (errr....I mean borrow) the ideas from. For the Get pushed challenge this week, how about getting outside and seeing what you can do to capture a bird in flight. Let me know if this doesn't work for you.

[Frogger]

Excellent! This is exactly what I had in mind when I gave you the challenge. You don't need to know what you are photographing. You just need to make a good photograph.

[bkb in the city]

Nice shot

[Mary Siegle]

@jnr That sounds like quite a challege! I will see if I can succeed. Stay tuned.

[Kathy]

Great textures. The tree almost looks like a piece of rock with red lichen.

[Pyrrhula]

Marchandiobasidium aurantiacum . ( By Google)
Great close up of it.

[Mary Siegle]

@pyrrhula Ferry, I should have known you could give me the answer. Thank you!

[eDorre]

Cool mystery shot!