Time for #WhatsItWednesday.

@cliffordbeshers Tree bark?

@cliffordbeshers A piece of driftwood? Or, I guess, since you are usually in a more arid climate, a fallen branch naturally sun bleached and sand blasted free of bark over time, perhaps?

@crossingthethreshold Close. The absence of.

@fgtech Correct. Can you explain the bumps?

@cliffordbeshers I’d presume that those are knots, where branches were starting or had broken off.

@fgtech Sort of, but more specialized than that.

@cliffordbeshers Ooh, that stumps me. Which makes me excited because I think I’m going to learn something now!

@fgtech

Here is the zoomed out image.

@cliffordbeshers Okay, I think I’m more stumped now. Those nubs are not branches, but what are they? This looks more like a whole tree trunk than I was expecting. This may be a kind of tree I’m not familiar with.

@cliffordbeshers Thorns make perfect sense! I’ve never seen them sticking out the trunk of a tree though, so that’s what tripped me up. Cool photo and fun puzzle. Thank you!