The tree towers over the human things.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Category: A Daily Tree
Caveat: Tree #598
This tree got noticed by the sun.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #597
This tree has aspirations.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #596
There are trees, here.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #595
This tree is one of the smaller trees that I am currently permitting to stick up through the temporary deck of my tree house. I kind of want to keep it, but I might end up removing it.
You might ask, “What’s up with the treehouse? You haven’t posted much about it lately…”
In fact, I stopped working on it. The treehouse project was focused on things that didn’t require my spending more money. I reached a point where I needed to invest some more money – I need lumber for the permanent deck. I don’t want to spend money on that project, right now. Maybe after I’ve worked for a while at the gift shop and saved up some money.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #594
This is a huckleberry bush with some huckleberries, but it’s sufficiently tree-like that I decided to include it here.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #593
This cedar tree is younger than the western hemlocks behind and beside it.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #592
I took this picture of a tree when I was driving south of Ketchikan along the coast in November, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #591
This tree seems more average than your average tree.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #590
This tree is all alone in a plain of gravel.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #589
This tree has fallen and can’t get up.
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Caveat: Tree #588
This tree is taller than me.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #587
Here is another tree from the past: this tree is in Kagoshima, Japan. The active Sakurajima volcano is in the background. I took that picture in April, 2010 – as you can tell by the blossoms on the tree.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #586
This tree is in front of the public school I taught at in Hongnong Village, Yeonggwang County, in rural southern South Korea. I took it in May, 2010. My classroom is the rightmost visible window on the first floor.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #585
I took this picture of a tree driving on a road (wait, was I driving on the road, or was the tree?) somewhere north of Thorne Bay (Northeast Prince of Wales Island) in October, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #584
This is another of my “pile of rocks” pictures that happens to have a tree in it.
It’s been my turn to suffer some computer problems. Not sure quite what: seems like I’ve just gotten my hard drive too full and need to clean house. I get upset when Arthur has his computer problems – but I see that as being because of how he starts cussing and carrying on about it. I try to remain more calm, but there’s no denying it can put one out of sorts.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #583
This tree awaits momentous changes.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #582
This tree caught some rays.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #581
I found a forest of 2-inch-tall alders.
I made some progress on the treehouse. I finished the cables to the new bolt in the eastern tree. I tightened them up and got the eastern support beam lifted off the bolt under its center. Because it was windy, this produced an impressive result: the eastern end of the treehouse platform began to swing, ever so slightly, back and forth. But the corner cables remained taut, so the platform felt securely anchored. I felt pleased with the result.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #580
This young alder experiences an unexpected hole in the summer’s eternal overcast.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #579
This is the eastern tree of the two treehouse trees, now with its new “upper bolt” holding the cables. I think this works much better – anyway the platform now feels more securely anchored to the trees.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #578
This alder is growing in the middle of Arthur’s “yard” (moss garden) – near the corner of where my storage tent had been positioned for my first year here.
I made some progress on the treehouse today – drilling my last hole and putting in the last giant lag bolt, to hook up the suspension cables down to the corners.
Tomorrow, I will go to work.
[daily log: walking, xkm]
Caveat: Tree #577
These are some trees seen on the beach near Tranquil Point. Note the young deer strolling along in the lower right, which admittedly was the main reason I took the picture. But it didn’t come out so well – the zoom on this new phone camera is even worse than on my old phone camera.
[daily log: walking, 1km; boating, 30km]
Caveat: Tree #576
This tree is mostly green.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #575
I suppose I have some small obsession with finding ever younger trees. This is the smallest alder I have found so far – it is less than 1/2 inch tall.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #574
This is only 15% of a tree. It extends below and above the frame.
[daily log: walking, 1km; boating, 25km]
Caveat: Tree #573
I took this picture of a tree next to the garish pink Federal Building in downtown Ketchikan in November, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #572
Actually this is a picture of a pile of rocks. But there is a tree in it too, so I figured that would work out if I used it as my daily tree.
[daily log: walking, 1km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #571
I took this picture of a tree near Marquette, Michigan, in November, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #570
This is a tree which I happened to see.
In other news – I “bit the bullet” today. A part-time job was offered at the Alaska Gift shop – one of the places I’d applied at some months ago, before the advent of COVID. Apparently one of the other part-timers there just quit, so Jan called me and made the offer, and I drove to town and filled in the paperwork and met the store’s owners. It’s just an entry-level retail job, such as I worked to put myself through college, at the bookstore in Minneapolis. I will be working Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We’ll see how things work out.
I could argue that it makes me feel young: “starting over” at age 55. But what to do? The teaching concept seems unlikelier by the day, up here, and … I’d rather work “dead end” retail than try to sell myself as some kind of “Telecommuting” IT person, which is the main alternative, if a job must be had.
In yet other news, my garden is growing a few beets. I decided to try an experiment, and made some pickled beets, yesterday. Arthur and I had some with dinner, this evening. They taste pretty okay.
[daily log: walking, 1km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #569
This tree is seen in silhouette.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #568
This tree is a guest post from the past. I took this picture of a tree in Duluth, in November, 2009.
[UPDATE NOTE: This tree is the same as Tree #206. The past is omnipresent.]
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #567
I’m sure this tree has been featured before – it’s very close to the house.
[daily log: walking, 2km]