Category: My Photos

This tree took two paths skyward.

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This tree is among its peers on the hillside.

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This tree is a “guest tree” from that past. I took this picture at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Portland, in June, 2018. That’s downtown Portland and the Williamette River in the background.

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This tree stood guard near my little greenhouse.

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This tree is practicing some social distancing with the utility pole.

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This tree noticed I had built a fire, as smoke rose from the chimney.

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This tree touched a rainbow. Mostly, though, it touched rain.

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This tree is along the road to town.

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This tree is one I saw in Gwangju, South Korea, in April of 2010.

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This tree is disappearing into the past at the speed of time.

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This tree knew the rising moon.

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This tree is the same as a few days ago. I have decided to see if it will survive if I plant it – it’s presumably a live tree, but I think it spent too long on a shelf in a store before it showed up at our house when our neighbors-down-the-road gifted to us on Christmas Eve. I’ve temporarily planted it in a planter in my greenhouse. It won’t be much warmer than outside – the greenhouse receives no direct sunlight this time of year – but it will at least be more sheltered. The white stuff is just cotton, apparently. It’s inert and should wash off over time.

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This tree awaited the nearing dawn.

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This tree staked a claim to frosted muskeg.

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This tree is wearing a discarded mask. Note that I did not place this mask here – I simply found it attached to this tree – a true sign of 2020 if ever there was one.

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This tree towers, somewhat blurrily.

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This tree caught some snow.

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This tree was seen by me along the road to work.

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This tree was big and old.

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This tree was visible from the deck of Arthur’s house.

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This tree felt the surging sea at its roots.

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This tree is trying to start life under a big tank of kerosene.

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This tree is growing in a hillside of rocks.

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This tree knew the morning’s wind.

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This tree is infested with an alligator. Can you see the toy plastic alligator hidden in the branches?

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This tree was down in the murk.

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This tree knew the clouds would move on.

I spent the morning repairing our water-intake system – the plastic sheeting in the creek-bed, uphill from the road, that serves as a catchment for our water, had been dislodged somehow. So I had to rearrange things. Meanwhile, I filled the cistern from the well – this is easy now that I’ve made an adapter for the hose in my greenhouse, that is sourced off the well. We’ve had not shortage of water from the sky, but if the catchment isn’t working, we still will end up with a shortage in our tank.
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This tree is in town, left of the center in a view looking north from the Public Library parking lot. To the right is the fire department, to the left is city hall, there’s a utility pole and tree, and then the sea and some mountains in the distance.

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This tree felt the fingers of the waning moon on her shoulders.

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This tree seems a bit out of focus, to be frank. Who’s taking these pictures, anyway?

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