This tree felt itself to be in contrast with the sky.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Category: A Daily Tree
Caveat: Tree #632
This tree is about two miles from the house.
[daily log: walking, 8km]
Caveat: Tree #631
This tree is leaving.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #630
This tree is not exceeding the speed limit.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #629
This tree shows its true colors.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #628
This tree is along the road less taken.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #627
This tree is in a forest.
[daily log: walking, 3km; jogging, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #626
This tree provides a backdrop to fall.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #625
This tree found the sun.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #624
This tree witnesses the shapeless sky.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km]
Caveat: Tree #623
This tree dwells near the pond.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]
Caveat: Tree #622
Here are some trees and some road and some sun, from a few days ago. The daily tree is among them.
Arthur had more problems with the boat rail while I was at work. Big problems. Our second repair to the bottom-end pulley failed much more catastrophically than the first – the boat is okay, Arthur is okay, but we have some work ahead of us.
More later.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #621
This tree provides double the usual tree-type entertainment.
I got up extra early and Arthur and I attempted to repair the broken cable pulley at the base of the boat rail. I say “attempted” because I learned that later in the day, Arthur attempted to operate the trolley and the pulley broke again. I came home and found that the eye-bolt we’d used at the base was clearly inadequate to the task.
Meanwhile, I went to work and had an unexpected success: I got the video security camera system working. Apparently, that system has not been working for 12 years or so. Jan said, jokingly: “Impressive, but don’t let that success go to you head.” Fair enough. It was just trial and error, mostly – it turned out the power source for the cameras was faulty, and I solved it by “hijacking” the power source for the recorder box.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #620
Here’s a tree on a fallen tree.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #619
This tree, too, is sideways yet alive.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #618
This tree finds its own way.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #617
This tree is from my distant past. It’s there in the fog beside the road.
In fact, Arthur took this picture, from his car, as he followed my father’s car down the road in some tandem driving odyssey. That’s me looking out.
We had a long day today. One of those days when Arthur lives to the fullest his maxim: “Better to be lucky than to be smart.”
[daily log: walking, 7km]
Caveat: Tree #616
I can’t decide if the featured tree here is the one up on the ridge or the one down in front of the cliff.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]
Caveat: Tree #615
These trees test the sky’s patience.
The sky always passes these tests.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #614
This tree is in Rockpit – featured before, I’m sure.
It was very windy in town today while I was working. The wind blew open the door of the store and damaged some merchandise.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #613
Arthur and Alan drove the boat into town, while I took the Tahoe with the boat trailer, so we could pull it out of the water. I took this picture of Arthur and Alan in the boat departing the dock. I was standing on the neighbor’s lot, and the picture prominently includes the burnt tree from the house fire last summer.
Driving into town, I saw a rainbow.
While in town, we saw another.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #612
This tree has lots of moss.
Arthur announced that we would be taking the boat in for service tomorrow. As usual, the discussions about this must have happened in his head at some point without telling me. The military life: always be ready to jump when they say “jump.”
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #611 “An unbuilt lot at five-mile”
This is a tree but there are other trees which make distinguishing (or deciding upon) the tree more difficult.
I suppose it better fits in with my recent interest in capturing pictures that I could label “Alaskan Gothic.” Alan and I had taken a very long walk and this container is in front of the water plant at 5 mile.
[daily log: walking, 11km]
Caveat: Tree #609
This tree is one I saw on a side street near my place of work in Ilsan, Korea, in October, 2012.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #608
This tree is near my treehouse project.
I saw a raven on a truck in the parking lot after work this afternoon.
I was very tired from work today. Not sure exactly why – I felt the weight of responsibility or something.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #607
This tree is by the water a mile west of here.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #606
I captured this tree’s image because of the fall-hint below and in front of it.
With hardly a summer worth mentioning, fall is upon us.
I spent the day cooking. I made my slightly well-regarded Chilean-style chupe de pescado (fish chowder). I’m not sure what my uncle Alan thought of it, but Arthur has said he likes it a lot.
And for some unfathomable reason, I made a chocolate cake.
Earlier, Alan and I walked out to around 6.5 mile. He’s a much more intensive walker than Arthur is. I should follow his example.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #605 “Shipping container with alders”
I would also classify this tree picture under the rubric “Alaskan Gothic.”
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #604
In the morning I went on an unexpectedly long walk with my uncle Alan who is visiting here. We went all the way to 11.2 mile on the road.
I saw this tree in front of Sunnahae and said, “I think this would be a good tree but the power pole is in the way. Alan said, “Make it part of the picture.”
Here is Alan discovering that he has cellphone reception down there, because it’s across from the town’s 4G tower.
Then in the afternoon I ended up going in to work for 4 hours. I had to learn more about framing – specifically, we were trying to cut a oversize piece of glass for a custom frame. The glass cutting gadget only goes up to 48 inches. The frame we needed to do was 50 inches wide. It was difficult – we had to cut the glass “by hand” with a straightedge and long rule. I broke one piece.
[daily log: walking, 8km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #603
This tree is down by the water.
Art and I drove to Hollis this evening to collect Alan, Arthur’s brother (another uncle).
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #602
This tree (I’m thinking of the one on the left) is from my past: I took the picture in October, 2015. The tree foregrounds a peculiarly-shaped church a few blocks from my apartment in Ilsan, South Korea.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #601
This tree is the little cedar that I attempted to transplant a little over a year ago (tree #237).
Surprisingly, it’s not dead. But it doesn’t seem to be particularly thriving, either.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #600
Though numerologically significant, this tree is just a middling-quality tree at best.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]