OK, my family thinks that this does NOT deserve “beauty of the day”.  They all now have lots of opinions about what is good–and what is not.  They think this is just bark on a tree.

And they are right:  it is.

But look how it is peeling.  And how it has lots of colors.

I know:  I have not convinced you, either.  Still, it is different, and I would not have noticed it if I had not made this silly New Year’s resolution (13 days late!).