Meg Pilcher’s Reviews > How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves > Status Update

“Trees grow more branches on their southern side, as this is the brightest. As they get taller they inevitably shed lots of branches on their southern side too. This leaves a series of “eyes” looking at us from the south side of the tree”

These “eyes” are the whorls and circles you see on a tree trunk! Gooley even draws an illustration in the book, Sand County style