Category: A Daily Tree

Caveat: Tree #800

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree feels somehow more significant in a numerological sense. Anyway, it’s  been featured before. It’s right downhill from my storage tent – it’s the tree that “caught” the tent when it tried to roll away in the big wind.
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picture[daily log: walking, 2.5km]

Caveat: Tree #796

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree is dying due to fire damage. I took this picture a few days ago when there was some fresh snow.
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picture[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]

Caveat: Tree #795

A Daily Tree / My Garden / My Photos

This tree saw the sun make an appearance and illuminate my little greenhouse (maybe pick the small alder tree that I planted last year just to the left of the door). So I worked in the greenhouse preparing some planters for planting soon.
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picture[daily log: walking, 2km; digging in the dirt, 2hr]

Caveat: Tree #794

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree (foreground) is preparing to leave (that is, send out its fresh spring leaves).
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picture[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

Caveat: Tree #793

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree was near a little plastic and fabric rainbow windmill thingy that I bought at the gift store for about 15 bucks and planted at the head of lot 73’s driveway.
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picture[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

Caveat: Tree #792

A Daily Tree / My Garden / My Photos

This tree was outside in the returning snow.
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This lettuce was just planted in my little greenhouse.
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picture[daily log: walking, 2km; digging in the dirt, 3hr]

Caveat: Tree #791

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree was photographed a few days ago, when there was still much snow.
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picture[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

Caveat: Tree #790

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree saw the snows from last weekend had mostly melted away.
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This picture is almost exactly the same view as tree #786.
picture[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 6hr]

Caveat: Tree #788

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / My Photos

This tree was by the water, amid the snow.
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I am increasingly convinced that my “covid vaccine hangover” has overlapped with the onset of some other issue. I’m past the fever and chills problem but I still experience periodic bouts of nausea and upset stomach. I wonder if maybe I’ve just reverted to old gut-related stress-reactions (gastroenteritis) such as I suffered so much in my 20’s and 30’s. I’ve been feeling overwhelmingly stressed with Arthur lately, too. At this point, no single utterance of mine is understood on the first attempt. Yet he basically seems to take the stance that “problem belong you” (in his adaptation of PNG pidgin – meaning his not understanding me is my problem, not his), and mostly finds it amusing when he misconstrues what I’m trying to say and decides that that thing that he’s understood is more meaningful or important than what I was actually trying to say. It’s like instead of having a conversation with him, I’m just providing some loosely-structured, improvisational prompts for a neverending conversation he’s having with himself.
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Caveat: Tree #786

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree witnessed the trackless fresh snow.
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I was a layabout, all day. But I’m feeling somewhat more back-to-normal.
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Caveat: Tree #785

A Daily Tree / Buddhism & Zen / Hiking & Travel / My Photos

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I saw this tree in September, 2013, at a temple called 흥국사 (Heungguksa) in eastern Goyang City (which was my home in Korea). The mountain in the background is Bukhansan, which separates Goyang and other northwest suburbs from Seoul proper – it’s the same mountain which, seen from the other side, is found in many iconic photos of the city.
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I decided to include this tree because I took that trip to that temple while I was undergoing radiation therapy (x-ray tomography) for my cancer treatment at that time. And frankly, I felt so bad today that I said to Arthur: “I haven’t felt this awful since I was getting radiation therapy.”
I suspect it’s what you might call the Covid vaccine “hangover.” Arthur didn’t have any such symptoms, but then, despite his various health problems, I suspect he has a very healthy immune system. I don’t think mine is so strong – the cancer is (was) proof of that. Anyway, there are others who have had such a strong reaction to the Moderna vaccine’s second dose. I experience fever, chills, nausea, and even some delirium today. I didn’t do anything except lie in bed and drink water.
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Caveat: Tree #783

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree was challenged by an uncommon meteorological phenomenon.
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picture[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]

Caveat: Tree #781

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree tried to prevent the sun’s appearance over the ridge to the south.
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picture[daily log: walking, 2km]

Caveat: Tree #776

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree is along a street in Klawock, where I went because of work today.
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picture[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 7hr]

Caveat: Tree #773

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree watched with the other trees as the studio reconstruction project finally saw some progress.
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The “foundation” is square and level (within 1-2 inches, which is my margin-of-error for this type of project), and I have begun putting the skeleton back together. Then it started to rain again so I went back inside.
picture[daily log: walking, 2km; pickaxing mud and roots, 2hr]

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