Category: A Daily Tree

This tree saw spring’s first salmonberry blooms.

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

This tree witnessed a low tide.

[daily log: walking, 5km;]

This tree was along the road home.

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

This tree (in a neighbor-down-the-road’s yard) got stared at by an eagle (just barely visible perched near the middle of the double-row of disused pier pillars going out into the water).

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

This tree bore mute witness to frankly unprecedented levels of narcissism.

Which is to say, I put up my street sign.

[daily log: walking, 3km;]

This tree was adjacent a big water, a place for boats, while the tide was low.

[daily log: walking, 4.5km;]

This tree was alongside a small stream swollen with recent rain.

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

This tree was at the view from the bottom of the steps to the treehouse.

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

This tree is more tilted than some others.

[daily log: walking, 4.5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree contained a stellar jay (a bluish bird, hard to see and not as strikingly blue as it seemed in real life).

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was adjacent to some blueberry blooms.

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

This tree hung out near the beach while the dog ran around on the mud flats at low tide, harassing seagulls.

You can see the dog as a white speck at the waterline in the left-center of the picture.

[daily log: walking, 4.5km;]

This tree was working on its suntan.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr; troubleshooting broken data, 3hr]

This tree was leading a tangled life.

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

This tree was infested by a treehouse – I haven’t posted a picture of the treehouse in a while. Not that much has changed – I’ve left it dormant all winter. But the sun touched it this afternoon.

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

This tree caught some morning sun.

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

This tree sheltered a pair of yard chairs that faced the sea at the neighbors’ lot.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree was along a road that seemed to lead to a snow-covered Sunnahae Mountain (hint: it doesn’t).

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

This tree experienced puffy clouds in a bluing sky.

Chad was sick so I did a half-day at work today – not a normal Thursday occurrence. Then I went home, got Arthur, and drove back to town to do our normal Thursday shopping thing. This twice-to-town day reminded me that in fact the most tiring thing about my job is the commute – for whatever reason, I find the 8-mile, 30 minute drive fairly exhausting. Something about dodging some potholes and hitting others.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 4hr]

This tree was recorded under fresh snow and sun yesterday morning.

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

This tree saw the re-snowing of Craig, Alaska.

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

This tree had been suffering under the illusion that winter was over.

[daily log: walking, 1km;]

This tree was wet, down at the beach on lot 73.

I felt like my cold came back, after having gone into slight remission. So I didn’t get much done today. The sun came out for about 30 minutes and I went and planted some radishes in my greenhouse. But total rain for the day was nearly 2 inches. We’re getting a lot of rain.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree was flanking a small stream.

We’ve been getting a lot of rain. Not that that’s so strange – this is the Alaskan Rainforest. Over an inch just today (so far – there are still some hours left in the day).

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

This tree was hanging around on a cliff along the road at the six-mile hill.

[daily log: walking, 4km;]

This tree was uncertain as to which season to celebrate.

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

This tree is a guest-tree from my past. This tree is in front of my childhood home, looking toward the front porch. I wasn’t sure when I took this picture. I figured it wasn’t on my last visit there, last Fall. I thought it might have been in either 2018 or 2009 – one of my two previous visits there. But then I checked the picture’s metadata, and lo, it was taken in August of 2007, which was definitely a time I visited there (I suspect I took this photo at the same time as the one in this blog post). I wonder how I managed to run across it now in one of my rather random “let’s organize my computer a little bit” moments?

Work at the gift store was more tedious than usual today – probably because I’m still not feeling well.

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

This tree (small, foreground) was a tree I planted two years ago, I think. Unlike most of the trees I’ve planted on my lot, it seems to be doing fine through our long, vague winter – it probably helps that it’s not an exotic but a local species, just not on my lot: some kind of pine that is mostly found in the muskeg areas.

[daily log: walking, 1km;]