Eastern Red Cedar

the juniper 'tree'* wild to our parts*

yeah there the wild juniper found around here.

Thank you, Dane. So if I understand correctly, Eastern Red Cedar is a type of Juniper?

When Junipers get this big in the wild, the bottom branches tend to have no new growth, hence the lack of nice red near the leaves.
Secondly the Eastern White Cedar doesn't have berries, and there bark goes completely white at this age.
Also in your first picture of the spotting , the 'leaves' appeared to be flat like a Cedar, but at closer look there more round.

Yes, it was somewhat reddish.

do have a better picture of the bark, was it redish at all?

Yeah sounds better then cedar needles.

I recall seeing berries, as I was slightly reminded of juniper when I looked at the leaves (is that what you would call them?).

yeah maybe a few more pictures to know for sure.

did it have berries left on it (Eastern Red Cedar), or cones (Eastern White Cedar?

Thanks Dane. If you need any more pictures, just let me know what you need.

Nice find! I'll try to figure out what exactly this is, sure looks like a eastern red cedar but not quite.