Maple, that is. As in the silver maple tree in our backyard.
Something about the pattern of sunlight splotches and scaly bark caught my eye. This old tree is a veteran, a real survivor. The power company comes through every ten years to shear off half its branches, but the tree keeps sending out tenacious new growth in spite of them 🙂
About Katherine Wikoff
I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
Katherine Wikoff 
Wow! What a proud old man!!
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I agree. And we give him lots of TLC to keep him going 🙂
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