This tree served as a backdrop for this portrait of my green chili, which I harvested from my greenhouse this morning.
I installed the green chili in a batch of my fish curry, which, since Arthur considers it acceptable despite being called “curry,” I have been making now and then, as it’s currently my favorite of the dishes that I make.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; fishcurrying, 1hr]
This tree is outside the back door to the gift shop. You can see that the Alaska State Troopers like to park back there.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; carwashing, 2hr]
This tree is the same maple tree I posted a week or two ago. It died in the heatwave.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree was across the street from my apartment in Yeonggwang, Jeollanam, South Korea. I took the picture in December, 2010.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree has an angle on things.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree is in front of a much older tree.
This is a hot red pepper flower in my greenhouse. Maybe I will grow a hot red pepper.
[daily log: walking, 4km; drilling/pounding/walking-back-and-forth-carrying, 5hr]
This tree is located on the far left of this photo, twice.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 30km]
This tree is from the past. It’s a tree in front of the house in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where Michelle (my wife) died in the year 2000, on or around this date. We don’t actually know the day she died, because she committed suicide and her body was only found some days later, but in recent years I’ve settled on June 25 as the anniversary of her death. In fact, I never lived in this house. Michelle and I had separated (but not divorced) and this was the house she moved into shortly after that separation. I did end up spending some time in this house, though, after her death. I spent a very intense and grim few days there, while staying in a motel, cleaning up and collecting our shared possessions and placing them into storage. I also returned to visit the house some years later, in 2009, and took this picture.
[UPDATE] It has come to my attention that this same picture, somewhat more cropped than above, was featured as Tree #282, about a year and a half ago. Rather than delete or alter this tree picture, I’ll point out that the cropping of the earlier posting of this picture clearly “chooses” the darker, denser tree on the left, near the picture’s center. So I can suggest that this time round, I’m choosing the tree on the right instead – the one closer to the street. In any event, as I said in that earlier blog-entry, Michelle’s ghost sometimes makes requests.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree is a western hemlock, about one inch tall.
This is the first ripe salmonberry of the season.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; picklemaking, 1hr]
This tree a sugar maple tree – about 2 days old. I had mentioned a month or so ago that I had bought some seeds for exotic trees that I was going to try to germinate and grow and eventually plant on lot 73. Well, out of the 4 little planters, this one is the only one, so far, to germinate: a little baby maple tree.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 6.5hr]
This tree is entangled with its siblings.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree is about 2 years old. I have been monitoring its growth since it appeared on the berm of the upper parking area on lot 73.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
This tree has a funny shape.
[daily log: walking, 2km; chowdering, 4quarts]
This tree has an island.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 35km]
This tree oversaw a deer’s approach.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]
This tree is not sideways, but I am.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree is southwest of the treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6.5hr]
This tree is near the stair up into the treehouse.
I saw a first tomato flower in my greenhouse.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree was photographed by me in February, 2011. I was looking out the stairway window of my apartment in Hongnong, Jeolla Province, South Korea. The building in the background is the rural public elementary school where I worked from May 2010 until May 2011.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree is trying to be amphibious.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 25km]
This tree is north of the treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
This tree saw me sitting in a boat messing with wires and looking up at some fluffy clouds and distant, still-snow-covered peaks.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 20km]
This tree and others of its kind malingered in the morning mist.
I spent a few hours this morning working on the electrical problem with the downriggers on the boat. I think I got them both working.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
This tree is alive.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6.5hr]
This young alder tree is growing near some small blue forget-me-not flowers – Alaska’s state flower.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree experienced an unprecedented meteorological phenomenon.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; peasouping, 1hr]
This tree is attempting to grow on top of a pile of rocks – because I put it there. I’m not sure how it will like it.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree has its own angle on things.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
This tree is a dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) – as is its near twin beside it.
I am fond of these trees – they were abundant in my neighborhood in Goyang City, South Korea, where they’re planted all over as ornamentals. They are strange trees – they closely resemble the redwoods I grew up among in northern California (although smaller), but they like to lose all their needles in winter, like deciduous trees.
Here are some dawn redwoods in Ilsan, Korea, in the snow. I took this picture in January, 2017.
I ordered these seedlings as an experiment to see if a mail-order tree could survive the unusually long shipment time to this island. I think it might work out – they arrived in a damaged shipping tube, but were seemingly intact and healthy when I opened it up. If they survive, I might buy some other exotics to plant around my lot. I like trees – you might never have guessed that, right?
Incidentally, the company I bought these seedlings from (Jonsteen Company) was founded by a guy I went to high school with, and the company is headquartered in Humboldt County, where I grew up. Jon and I graduated in the same class. He was a very popular guy, and a musician, and an athlete – all things I wasn’t, in high school. But he was always kind to me. Once he let me drive his corvette.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
This tree (on the left) saw a seiner (a net-deploying fishing boat) abduct all the fish from our front yard. Well… I guess we weren’t using them. So okay.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree was in the background of this picture I took of a little baby deer hanging out beside the road.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree is a guest-tree from the past. I took this picture at Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah in late 2009. It was a snowy day.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree saw me down in the boat, in heavy rain and wind, making sure the batteries were charged so the bilge pump was working – when there’s lots of rain, the boat fills up with water, which needs to be pumped out of the bottom of the boat.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
