This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in January, 2016, as I walked home from an appointment at the National Cancer Center, through Jeongbalsan Park.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing 8hr]
Category: A Daily Tree
Caveat: Tree #1459 “As mist will do”
This tree was shrouded in some mist.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1458 “A blur”
This tree saw its view blurred by heavy rain.
The rain was so heavy that the leak-catching bucket in my treehouse overflowed, even though I’d emptied it yesterday.
There was a small flood in my treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1457 “Near the forest”
This tree was near a forest.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1456 “A snowline”
This tree saw some fresh snow, looking out across the water from 9-mile toward 5-mile.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1455 “A gesture of faith”
This tree raises its arms to heaven.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1454 “High hopes”
This tree expected more rain.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1453 “A new spring”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in May, 2011, near my apartment in Ilsan (Goyang City), South Korea. I had just moved to my new neighborhood to start my new job at Karma Academy, where I stayed working for 7 years – the longest I’ve ever had one job.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #1452 “The placid, moody sea”
This tree overlooked the placid, moody sea.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #1451 “Before the sun”
This tree was there before the sun.
This was posted as a joke on the internet, but it made me think of trying to have a conversation with Arthur: “Everything will be fine if we stick with the script of the conversation we’ve already had in my head.”
[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1450 “A fragment of morning sunshine”
This tree is the tallest on lot 73.
Here it is illuminated by a rare fragment of morning sunshine. That sunshine doesn’t reach the ground, this time of year, because of the mountain’s shadow.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1449 “The distant ones”
This tree witnessed sunlit, snow-covered mountain in the distance.
“Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.” – from an Assyrian clay tablet, circa 2800 B.C.E.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1448 “Some days are harder than others”
This tree (slightly blurry foreground) is going to be gravely disappointed when winter comes back, which it will.
Art tried to take a walk and fell down on his face. Not really a cognitive failure this time, as far as I can tell – more likely just stumbled on a rock – bad luck (Friday the 13th, as Jan pointed out).
This was just on the road (Port Saint Nicholas Road AKA The Expressway), only steps from our house. I had been out on my own walk, with the dog, so I found him lying in the middle of the road when I got back to our house. At first I thought it was a log that had fallen out of someone’s pickup truck, because of his brown coat. Then I realized, and in the moment I found him, he was unresponsive. He did finally respond. It took about 10 minutes to get him to stand up – he’s too heavy for me to simply lift (and he resists my effort to try to lift him because he claims it hurts his shoulders, which is no doubt true, but having him cuss at me while I’m trying to help because it hurts isn’t helpful).
Finally I got him to the car. I got my wallet and such and we drove to town. We got him to the clinic (the sorta kinda “emergency room” on the island) after a 30 minute drive. He was still bleeding.
They cleaned the wounds (sorta), did some xrays, checked vitals. He’d broken his nose and there was gravel embedded in a deep gash between his eyes, and a large patch of missing skin on his forehead. After two hours (I suppose it’s just a matter of being “under observation” but of course he complained repeatedly at how long it was taking), they gave us some prescriptions and gauze and antibiotic ointment and sent us on our way. They want us to keep the wounds as uncovered as possible but keep them moist with the antibiotic. For the broken nose, they gave him an anti-inflammatory.
I knew he wasn’t feeling too terrible since he decided to spend the drive home criticizing my driving.
When we got home, I walked up to the spot where he’d fallen down 5 hours earlier. There had been so much blood. The drizzle had washed some of it away, but some blood was definitely still visible in the mud of the road.
Some days are harder than others.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1447 “As seen from above”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture looking down from my apartment window in February, 2013, in the Juyeop neighborhood of Ilsan, South korea.
It was a dumpy apartment, but I liked that it was very close to work and the subway. It’s where I was living when I was diagnosed with cancer later that year.
Today I spent part of the morning fixing the septic tank aerator pump. Well… not fixing, exactly – more like replacing. The old one seems to have died, so I put in a new one, that I ordered on Amazon. The new one is installed, below – the old one is already removed.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 4km]
Caveat: Tree #1446 “Yard decoration”
This tree was in the company of plastic pink flamingo.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1445 “The dead deer”
This tree had a deer skeleton lying nearby.
I really feel it’s quite discourteous of people to leave animal carcasses lying by the roads. It shows a lack of respect for neighbors and community.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 7.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1444 “Looking eastward”
This tree is along the river just off the side of the bridge at 8-mile.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 4km]
Caveat: Tree #1443 “Moonset just before dawn”
This tree survived through the morning.
The moon is setting over Sunnahae Mountain just after 8 this morning.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1442 “Known things”
This tree knew it was winter.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1441 “A malingering tree”
This tree was malingering along the road under heavy cloud-cover.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1440 “A view toward Bukhansan”
This tree is a guest from my past. It’s alongside some metro rail tracks between downtown Seoul and Ilsan, where I used to live. I took this picture in January, 2009.
The mountain in the background is the prominent Bukhansan. The large, highly-visible sign on the roof says “Dream Tree Daycare”.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1439 “The well-fed eagle”
This tree is a bit blurry, but it is hosting a well-fed eagle.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #1438 “The ice at the bridge at 7-mile”
This tree was near the bridge at 7-mile. There is still ice on the road there, despite 3 weeks of almost continuous rain and above freezing temperatures. Clearly there was a lot of ice, and clearly rain at 36 degrees isn’t enough to melt ice properly.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #1437 “Another day by the pond”
This tree spent a rainy day by the pond at 8.5 mile.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1436 “Because of the wind”
This tree seems to have fallen and is unable to get up. It has been very windy here today: waves on the beach, from the east, which is quite rare.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1435 “The sky at year’s end”
This tree swung beneath a glowering sky.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1434 “The dog’s nose and the trouble it can bring”
This tree is growing out of a stump that has a hole in it where a dog stuck her nose.
Later, this dog found a dead animal carcass lying by the road at the pond (the spot I call “Rockpit City Park”). Of course she tried to eat the carcass. Subsequently, almost instantaneously, she vomited and had diarrhea, but soon she was feeling fine again.
It really makes me angry how people leave carcasses by the road. It’s irresponsible and disrespects neighbors.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1433 “The lift bridge”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. It’s on a hillside above downtown Duluth, Minnesota. I took this picture in early October, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1432 “Take me to the river”
This tree got taken to the river near dusk.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1431 “The road home”
This tree stood aside as I commuted home as the sun set at 3:30.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1430 “The subsequent unsnowing”
This tree stood in the ongoing rain, which had mostly unsnowed the area, but still sheets of ice coat parts of the road.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1429 “The little house by the sea”
This tree is down at the neighbors’ house. I took it a few days ago, when things were snowier.
Today, it rained a lot. The snow has washed into a kind of slush underlain with ice.
We went to the neighbors and had a Christmas dinner. Other neighbors came from farther down the road, too. It was a very low-key Christmas.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1428 “Snow then rain”
This tree is along the snowy road. But it started to rain and later that day the snow was turning to slush.
This is not necessarily good for the road’s iciness: we live in the shade (no direct sunlight because of the mountain), so the rain falls on the sheets of ice on stretches of road and instead of melting the ice, it just adds to it.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]