This tree witnessed that some snow had fallen. Ice on the road: winter is finally here.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #1815 “Around the bend”
This tree was around the bend.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1814 “Seadrinker”
This tree drank from the sea.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1813 “Alder trees disregarding low temperatures”
This tree was disregarding the low temperatures.
I ended up going in to work this morning for a few hours. I had to move around some boxes that had been delivered last night – very heavy so not something I wanted to ask Jan or Kim to do. They included new shipment of picture glass from our framing supplies vendor. I also ended up macgyvering a brand new vacuum cleaner that was (apparently) of quite low quality. I got it working, though.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 3hr]
Caveat: Tree #1812 “Frozen river”
This tree attended a frozen river.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1811 “Pending…”
This tree awaited the chilly dawn.
Thursday is shopping day. We went into town, but I ended up spending a bit of time moving some furniture for the store. It was cold today – not the recent “Alaskan tropic” clime.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1810 “Cloud envy”
This tree was jealous of the clouds at the summit of the six-mile hill.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1809 “The City of Klawock”
This tree was in the City of Klawock.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1808 “8:30 AM”
This tree was waiting for a ride into town, this morning.
Colder temperatures cause ice to build up on the gravel road, even without snow or rain… it just sort of materializes out of the air over the days, a kind of compacted layer of heavy frost.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1807 “Frosty”
This tree saw quite heavy, world-whitening frost but still no snow in bustling downtown Rockpit.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1806 “Cold, blue”
This tree saw blue skies. This time of year, blue skies mean the temperature drops. Not seen in this photo: frost on the beach, frozen water droplets on the trees’ branches.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1805 “The mossy-roofed shed”
This tree was near a shed with a collapsed, mossy roof at 4-mile, along the road to town.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 3hr]
Caveat: Tree #1804 “Snow, but not this year… rather, some previous year”
This tree is a guest tree from my past, but not as far in the past as most guest trees from the past. I took this picture almost exactly 2 years ago, on January 2nd, 2022. This is our driveway, here. Unlike this year, we had a lot of snow. This year… zero snow, so far.
Normally my guest trees from the past are from the time before I started posting tree pics. But I saw this one in my catalog of saved pictures and I had never become a tree pic.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1803 “Stairway”
This tree was beside the treehouse stairs at just after dawn this morning. The rain has returned, after a 2-day break.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1802 “Flameout”
This tree is a guest tree from December 2007. I took the picture walking around Goyang City in South Korea.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1801 “A day of firsts”
This tree was in Arthur’s front yard.
I was lazy today. Though I did spend a couple hours this morning compiling user statistics for the map websites. Rather than cross-post here, I’ll just link to the other blog:
- December, 2023, User Statistics for OGF
- Full Year 2023 User Statistics for OGF
- Full Year 2023 User Statistics for Arhet
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1800 “Small and boring”
This tree is small, and boring.
I don’t quite know how I got to an even number of trees on New Years Eve – especially since I started this daily tree thing on January 1st, 2019. So figuring 5 years at 365 days each, plus one included leap year, should give 1826 trees – not 1800.
I obviously messed up counting somewhere in there. I’m an incompetent enumerator of trees, it seems. Either that or there was an unnoticed time warp.
I had been contemplating stopping this tree-counting business, because often the trees feel repetitive. But I like the rhythm of it, and the way it forces me to review each day, even if most days I don’t offer much review: at least it gives me the opportunity and impetus to give a try.
So I’d decided to end the daily tree thing here – I liked the roundness of it: exactly 5 years. But, frankly, it’s not like we’re really out of trees on this planet – there are lots of trees, still. And… This Here Blog Thingy™ appreciates the regularity of it all. Off to another year, then.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1799 “Wet”
This tree was wet.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1798 “Continuing precipitation”
This tree experienced continuing precipitation, while a quite high tide brought the sea closer.
Art had a doctor’s appointment today. Just follow-up and getting all the various specialists in sync with the local doctor, mostly – nothing new or revelatory, though he got a new CT scan of his head, to confirm no new major changes in his brain.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1797 “광주 나무”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture near Gwangju City, South Korea, in April, 2010. I was about to start my new job in rural Hongnong (Yeonggwang-eup).
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1796 “Some snow”
This tree saw snow stick to the ground this morning – that’s first snowfall of the winter, here. But then the snow turned to rain later in the day. Just rain.
Roy the rain-gauge-guy came in the store today, crowing that it was certain we were going to set an annual rainfall total record this year.
[daily log: walking, 6km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1795 “The 7-mile bridge”
This tree stood alongside the bridge at 7-Mile during my morning commute.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1794 “The pie”
This tree was on a pie I attempted. Actually, it wasn’t too bad. It was a raspberry-blueberry pie – the blueberries harvested from right around the house here and the raspberries from Wayne who lives in Klawock. So local produce.
Arthur and I went over to our neighbor Penny and Mike’s house for a Christmas brunch. Also there were neighbors Greg and Sue and Brant and Kim.
This picture shows them all, minus me (the photographer).
Clockwise from leftmost: Sue, Penny, Mike, Arthur, Kim, Brandt, Greg.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1793 “After the storm, or before the next one”
This tree greeted the dawn.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1792 “Christmas Adam”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. I do these guest tree pictures when I’m too busy to have taken a picture in a given day.
I took this picture in February, 2010, at 금산사 [Geumsan-sa = Geumsan Temple], in Jeollabuk Province, South Korea. I was doing a “templestay” – where you live for a very short time (a long weekend) at a Buddhist monastery, doing the monk lifestyle thing.
We had a record sales day at the gift store – based on my and Jan’s memories of working with Wayne and Donna when they ran the store, combined with more accurate records over the last few years, our gross sales today were the highest ever. It’s actually typical that it’s December 23rd – that’s the “last minute shopping” day for Christmas. I think we combined that with doing well with stocking good inventory, and the fact that today was the day that Santa visited the store (a tradition at Alaska Gifts for a given Saturday before Christmas).
Here is a picture of Santa with some elves he met at the store (i.e. store staff: Kim, Jan, myself):
We also had one of those typical “gale force” rainstorms in Craig today. So as I went to head home from work, a tree (two trees) had blown down on Port Saint Nicholas Road, meaning that work crews had to get out there and clear the tree – so I was delayed getting home until almost 8. And I got home to darkness, because the power was out. That’s been a quite frequent occurrence this damp Fall.
I learned recently that today is called “Christmas Adam” (meaning, December 23rd). The reasoning: “Christmas Eve” is December 24th. We all know that Adam came before Eve, so… December 23rd is “Christmas Adam.” Call it Patriarchy Remembrance Day.
[daily log: walking, 6km; retailing, 11hr]
Caveat: Tree #1791 “Flamingo & treehouse”
This tree was near a treehouse and a yard flamingo under steady rain.
I feel bad for my neglected treehouse. I basically did no work on it this year.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1790 “Christmas lights”
This tree (at the neighbor’s driveway) has acquired some (faintly visible) Christmas lights.
[daily log: walking, 5.5km; retailing, 1.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1789 “City of Rockpit”
This tree helped to frame a view of Rockpit, Alaska – my home. The City of Rockpit is a cluster of buildings just faintly visible near the water in the lower left distant shore as seen through the trees. This picture was taken from the top of 6-Mile Hill.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1788 “Stale schtick”
This tree was by a pile of rocks – I believe I’ve featured these trees and rocks several times before, as seen from different angles. I’m running out of unique viewpoints within short walking distance of my house. The “daily tree” schtick is feeling stale.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1787 “The living clouds”
This tree (I guess one of those silhouettes on yonder ridge) was witness to a spectacular sky – picture taken from my apartment window in Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea in January, 2018.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1786 “Outside”
This tree was outside, with others of its kind.
Yesterday, I read a novel, cooked and did laundry. Today I had been intending to go into the store, but Jan said she could handle it and I stayed home again. I’m pretty tired from store stuff. So I tried to do some work on my map servers but didn’t make much progress – I feel like I’ve forgotten how to do stuff.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1785 “With fresh snow on the mountain”
This tree was at the top of the six mile hill.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1784 “In front of the bank”
This tree was in front of the bank where I stopped this morning.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]