Now that I took a photo of one tree’s bark, I’m looking more closely at bark everywhere. This older birch has a very craggy-textured outer bark, which then peels itself away in curled loops to reveal the smoother, cleaner-looking “new skin” underneath.
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About Katherine Wikoff
I am a college professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach literature, film studies, political science, and communication. I also volunteer with a Milwaukee homeless sanctuary, Repairers of the Breach, as chair of the Communications and Fund Development Committee.
Katherine Wikoff 
I remember white birch bark trees in Michigan when I was a kid way back in the 1950s.
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I’ll bet Michigan had beautiful birch forests! The Upper Peninsula?
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Ahh, we have these trees in our front yard. I love them. They are slowly getting less healthy and I am sad that eventually they will need to come down….
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I know that feeling. We have some old (“mature”) trees in our yard that are probably reaching the end, as well.
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