What is this wood?

try this site rick

https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-identification-guide/

My guess is cherry.

I think I agree with Splintergroup. At first glance I had thought maple, but looking at all the pictures, cherry is my vote.

Well, I use a lot of cherry for my projects, and the grain appearance seems to match any cherry I've used, it's the color I'm uncertain about. The cherry I buy from a sawmill, which was cut then dried in an enclosed shed, has some red to it. If you can find some white sapwood anywhere on the pieces, then I go with cherry. Otherwise, I'm in the dark on this one, having only ever used cherry, maple, poplar, and pine.

Actually I like Hobbit House for wood id pics. Most of his listed species he has quite a few, to hundreds of each type of wood, plus a lot of info about them. Once on the page, just scroll down, they are all alphabetical, and each tag has a sampler pic, so you can start by color, grain, and general appearance. Once on a woods page there are many pics, and soon you will see even woods you know, can be a LOT of different things. 

Your pic could well be Cherry, if so, it was cut, and kept from any sunlight, or it probably would have reddened, and darkened quite a bit. 

Or it could be a piece of QS Ash, that had a very light color?

Could be something all together different, like a flat sawn, straight grained Sycamore?

Weight of the piece, and just how hard it is, in relationship to other woods you know will be the deciding factor I'd think.

For Cherry, you are well versed in Pine, Cherry has a Janka hardness of 950, which is quite close to Pine. On both a thumbnail will usually leave a dent. If it is an Ash (1320 +  -), it would take a hammer, and a decent blow to leave a mark. Sycamore is closer to Cherry, but less at 770.

You could test it's paleness, by putting it outside in the sun for a day or so. If it changes colors a lot that could be another hint, to see what color it goes to?

I have always done this. I think it's helped me better understand the woods I use. Dad used to laugh, and say, if it looks good, what does it matter? I'd rejoin with, indoors or outdoors? Structure, or cover? To those he'd nod and say ok, maybe it does matter. I miss him every day.

I might agree with Ash.
Anyone gonna go with the old LJs line when someone asked what kind of wood is this?

I might go with Ash too…but I’m no good at that stuff.

Alder

ill second that ! 😏

Hmmm... ash looks different from that (at least the boards I've worked with).  🧐 I'm sticking with cherry.

There you go Hairy

I think that's the only place I've heard about alder.

yeah it was a running joke for awhile. heck i love alder. did my office furniture out of it. has a nice honey color.

So let me heat this conversation up some....
It's not Cherry, nor Ash, nor Alder, and not Maple. It's far harder than any of these. The grain is fine, delicate looking and very uniform. The wood is pale creamy but I have others in the same bundle that are slightly tan. I have two bundles. 
No matter how hard I try I can not dent it with my thumbnail. Not even on an edge, corner, or end grain. It cuts very nice on the TS and hand saws. Drills beautifully. 
Anymore guesses? 🙂

ok so you already know what it is !
hickory ?

Hickory...no.
One bundle I have marked "Dogwood" The other package isn't marked and that's what I show here. I believe it's also dogwood or perhaps boxwood. 
I was hoping someone might know for sure and could confirm it. 
I'm guessing by my testing that the Janka hardness would be around 2100 - 2200 lbf.

damn !

what about .............butternut ?

No. Butternut is a softer hardwood around 500 lbf.

ok, beech wood ?