This tree is the maple tree I’m trying to grow, in the kitchen window. It’s put out some new leaves, which gives me some small optimism.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Category: A Daily Tree
Caveat: Tree #929
This tree is on the right.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #928
This tree saw the cloudcover thicken and grow heavy.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #927
This tree is growing quickly right by my greenhouse’s door.
Meanwhile, inside the greenhouse I found a cucumber.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #926
This tree is down near the high tide line.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #925
This tree, seen last weekend from the boat, had an eagle in it.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #924
This tree awaited the sun’s departure.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #923
This tree is from my past. It was witness to a rather ambitious hiking excursion I took with my brother in September, 2013, in southwestern South Korea – right during the time I was undergoing my 3-times-a-week radiation therapy for my cancer. This is on the mountain just west of Hongnong, between the town and the nuclear power plant on the coast. Hongnong is where I lived in 2010-2011. I remember being utterly exhausted from this trip.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #922
This tree was there when the sun came out. In the lower right of the photo, in the shadows, you can see the stairway to the treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #921
This tree seems to have a dualistic worldview.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #920
This tree at Batan Point had a regulatory marker attached to it (i.e. a no-trespassing sign).
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #919
This tree is up on the hillside.
We successfully retrieved Alan from the ferry and he’s settled in here at the house. The plan is to go out fishing tomorrow.
[daily log: walking, 3km; driving to Hollis, 130km]
Caveat: Tree #918
This tree is reaching for the water.
The plan had been that Arthur’s brother Alan (my “other uncle”) was going to arrive at Klawock airport this evening, to stay for a 10 day visit.
Apparently, though, Arthur managed to forget to book the last leg of Alan’s journey, on Island Air Express, which is the airline that provides service on their little airplanes between Ketchikan and Klawock.
Actually, I think saying that Arthur “forgot” isn’t quite accurate: his cognitive issue is, as described before, not entirely a memory issue so much as a failure of what the psychologists call “executive function.” I see this manifest in the following way: in day-to-day experience, Arthur often “checks things off” his mental checklist before he’s done them. Thus he thinks he’s told me of a plan to go fishing, when all he ever did was intend to do so. Or he thinks he’s booked a flight for Alan on Island Air, when all he ever did was intend to do so. He plays out the plan in his mind, and his mind says, “oh, good, that’s done, then.” I think his episodic memory of recent actions mixes up “planned actions” with “completed actions.”
So Alan had no seat on Island Air, and got stuck in a motel in Ketchikan for the night. We’ll get him over to the island today, hopefully – worst case scenario, he can take the ferry in the afternoon.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #917
This tree is another effort at trying to grow a maple tree. Along with the redwood, which I posted yesterday, I ordered a baby maple tree to make another go given my failed attempts at germination. It didn’t survive the week-long postal journey here as well as the redwood did – most of its leaves died. But it’s got a few. We’ll see how it does.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; errant erranding, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #916
This tree is a coast redwood (sequoia sempervirens). I made an effort starting a few months ago to germinate some redwood seeds, but that effort ended in abject failure. So I decided to spend a bit more money, and buy a redwood sapling, which arrived on Monday. I have transplanted it into this little bucket with some potting soil, and will keep it in the greenhouse for now. Maybe it will survive.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #915
This tree exists.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #914
This tree caught some early sun at 530, before the clouds returned.
[daily log: walking, 1km; currying and cobblering, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #913
This tree on San Ignacio Island has an eagle. Can you see it? It’s very small, but clearly silhouetted against the sky.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #912
This tree failed to notice the deer hiding behind a large rock. But I noticed it, and took its picture.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 45km]
Caveat: Tree #911
This tree (from my past) is watching hot peppers dry in September, 2009. I saw it on the island named Ulleungdo off the east coast of South Korea.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #910
This tree was up early.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #909
This tree (recumbent) has appeared here before. It’s the tree that was damaged by the neighbor’s house fire in August, 2019. The absent owner next door apparently isn’t completely absent – he hired people to come and cut down these fire-damaged trees, and also yesterday while I was at work, a barge came and installed pillars for a new dock (seen in background, sticking out of the water).
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #908
This tree is down near that flowering plant.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #907
This tree is along the beach. The treehouse is in this picture, but you can’t really see it.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #906
This tree saw stars in the sea.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; boating, 35km]
Caveat: Tree #905
This tree is a little pine tree sapling I transplanted last year, from the muskeg about a mile east of here to a spot on lot 73. There are lots of pine trees in the muskeg but none growing around these lots, here. Probably different soil or something. Anyway, it seems to be doing okay, so far.
I made some cobbler, using mostly salmonberries and blueberries picked around the house here, but also some frozen raspberries my boss at the gift shop gave me.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; cobblering, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #904
This tree is one of three.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #903
This tree is hiding among others of its kind.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; boating, 45km]
Caveat: Tree #902
This tree saw the new culvert dry up for the first time – no water is flowing through it. This is the culvert that was newly installed on lot 73 last fall because of flooding problems on the road.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #901
This tree is branching out.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #900
This tree (let’s say, for the sake of argument, the tree on the far right) saw me stop in Klawock to buy gas. I felt the fact there was still a lot of snow on the mountains in early July was notable.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #899
This tree tasted the sea – photo taken a week or so ago, while out in the boat.
[daily log: walking, 2km; rendering-unto-database-gods, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #898
This tree was with a deer.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; boating, 40km]