Category: A Daily Tree

This tree was reflected, greenly.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]

This tree hung in the background while a fireweed plant bloomed [correction below].

[UPDATE: My friend and blog-reader, Pam, has corrected me: this plant is a foxglove, not fireweed. I should know this… but I didn’t.]

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 2km]

This tree enjoyed a light breeze.

“‘I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,’ said Toad.”

[daily log: walking, 5.5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was unhelpful while I repaired the broken window on our door.

[daily log: walking, 6km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was spending time by the river.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree witnessed that even on July 4th there were still patches of snow on the distant peak.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree (but only this one tree) caught a stray ray of sunshine beneath gray clouds (just that little gleam of bright green).

Unrelated:

“Do not try to solve the trolley problem—that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no trolley. General Motors bought them all up and had them dumped in the ocean.” – attributed quote circulating on the internet.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree bore witness to a dog taking a short break near a frequently disregarded sign.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree witnessed a first ripe salmonberry of the season.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree had an eagle (the snag in the middle, a branch halfway down).

[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was upstaged by daisies.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree attempted to block a view of the early morning sky at around 445 this morning.

[daily log: walking, 6km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree is an old pussy-willow tree that lives at 8.5 mile, across from the pond.

[daily log: walking, 5.5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is viewable outside our north-facing window.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree is another guest tree from my past. I took this picture of a tree at sunset in a very flat place, just south of Winnipeg in late 2009. I was already living in South Korea at that time, but I’d returned to North America to do a road trip and visit friends and relatives.

Yesterday and today I’ve been struggling with a problem with some backup processes on my blog server. So I’ve been working on that, and my outdoor projects have been on hold. The issue is still not entirely within my understanding. So I’m still working on it.

[daily log: walking, 2km;]

This tree caught some morning sun, down near the treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree was about 50 feet from our house, along the trail over to the treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is hiding.

I ran across an unrelated, but humorous, alarming expression (courtesy of the internet): “Happier than a greased alligator at a family water park.”

Maybe there’s an Alaskan alligator in that pond?

[daily log: walking, 4.5km; dogwalking, 4km]

This tree was at the top of the 10-mile hill, overseeing an abandoned car. That car has been there for 2 years now.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was among others.

[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree witnessed a small family out for a morning stroll.

Unrelated, here is a quote that I found amusing:

“Never underestimate your fellow man’s lack of initiative.” – Bryan Caplan

To be clear, I take some issue with the author’s use of the gendered “fellow man” – it’s archaic, at this point, and there are plenty of more universalist alternatives that are utterly painless, e.g. simply “fellow human being’s” or even simply “other people’s” as opposed to “your fellow man’s”. That said, and given Caplan’s problematic relation (opposition) to feminism, perhaps we can take him at face value, and understand that he does, indeed, mean only men, here. In fact that might make the quote more amusing.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree saw me make a fire just west of our kitchen.

[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree stood front and center.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree (maybe one on the nearer shore on the left) witnessed that we managed to get the boat out of the boathouse and into the water. We parked it at our dock, but it has to share the dock with our new neighbors’ boat, since their dock isn’t built yet.

[daily log: walking, 7.5km; dogwalking, 2km]