This tree didn’t know that it would snow. Again.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #783
This tree was challenged by an uncommon meteorological phenomenon.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #782
Caveat: Tree #781
This tree tried to prevent the sun’s appearance over the ridge to the south.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #780
Caveat: Tree #779
Caveat: Storage Tent Revival
Feeling fed up with my server reconstruction efforts, I decided to work outside all day today. I have made good progress on my storage tent reconstruction. Arthur helped me for one step – pulling the roof tarp over the frame. Other than that, I just plod along, fastening things and such, putting it together. “Starting at the top and working my way down.”
Caveat: Poem #1679 “The witness”
Caveat: Tree #778
Caveat: Frame Shop Journal #3
I didn’t complete that many frames this week. There weren’t that many orders.
This first one is quite cool, though. It’s a 16th century map of Bucarelli Bay, as mapped by the Spaniards exploring the region at that time.
This map shows all the names they gave to the islands, capes and inlets. Some of those names have stuck – e.g. San Juan Island, San Ignacio Island, Madre de Dios Island. Other names were later changed. The town of Craig was place on what the Spaniards named Cabo Suspiro (Cape of Sighs). I think Cabo Suspiro would be a much better name for the town, than Craig.
And here is a hobbled mule.
Caveat: Tree #777
Caveat: Tree #776
This tree is along a street in Klawock, where I went because of work today.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Poem #1676 “Slushland”
ㅁ Through the night it snows. Then during the day it rains. Net result: damp slush.
Caveat: Tree #775
Caveat: Tree #774
Caveat: Tree #773
This tree watched with the other trees as the studio reconstruction project finally saw some progress.
The “foundation” is square and level (within 1-2 inches, which is my margin-of-error for this type of project), and I have begun putting the skeleton back together. Then it started to rain again so I went back inside.
[daily log: walking, 2km; pickaxing mud and roots, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #772
This tree has failed to detach from my treehouse, despite some very windy days.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #771
Caveat: Tree #770
Caveat: Frame Shop Journal #2
Caveat: Tree #769
Caveat: Tree #768
Caveat: Tree #767
Caveat: Tree #766
This tree was dead, but towered over other, living siblings.
[daily log: walking, 2km; pickaxing holes in the mud and rocks, 3hr]
Caveat: Tree #765
Caveat: Tree #764
Caveat: Tree #763
Caveat: Frame Shop Journal #1
My duties at the gift shop are focused around my role as the “frame shop guy” – the gift shop is the only retail location on the island that does custom picture framing, and there is a fairly steady demand for this service. Wayne, the store’s owner (along with his wife Donna), was the guy who brought this service to the island when they opened the gift shop a bit over 20 years ago.
Working two days a week, there is enough to do in the frame shop that that is mostly what I do. I enjoy it, as it allows me to express my creative side a bit more than most other aspects of working in the store. I have decided to keep a picture journal of the frames I put together. The pictures below are from the last 2 weeks. I’ll maybe post this picture journal once a week or once every two weeks. The things being framed are quite diverse, from parents memorializing their kids’ drawings or paintings to fine art (often local native art) to photography to motivational posters.
Caveat: Tree #762
Caveat: Tree #761
Caveat: Tree #760
Caveat: Tree #759
Caveat: Tree #758
This tree overlooked a patented pile o’ rocks.
[daily log: walking, 2km; disassembling things on a steep hillside in the cold, 5hr]