This tree has a hole in it. I put the hole there, as part of my treehouse project. So this tree is the same tree that can be seen on the left in Tree #499.
[daily log: walking, 2km; smashing finger, 1]
Category: A Daily Tree
Caveat: Tree #500
The five-hundredth tree differs in few respects from many other trees. But it is unique.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; fishing, ~40 nautical miles]
Caveat: Tree #499
Closer to the ground, these two trees are hosting my treehouse plans.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #498
The tree saw the clouds.
[daily log: walking, 2km; tromping, 300m]
Caveat: Tree #497
This tree experienced some mist in the morning.
Caveat: Tree #496
This tree likes to hang out with its sibling.
[daily log: walking, 2km; tromping: 1000m]
Caveat: Tree #495
This tree cuts a striking silhouette.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; tromping, 1000m]]
Caveat: Tree #494
Here is another tree from my past, because I forgot to take a picture of a tree today. The tree is somewhat overshadowed by General Macarthur’s statue, at Incheon, South Korea. I took the picture in August, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #493
I saw this tree early in the morning (4:40 am).
[daily log: walking, 5km]
Caveat: Tree #492
This tree was upstaged by a passing deer.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km]
Caveat: Tree #491
I would recommend the tree in the upper left of the photo.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; tromping, 500m]
Caveat: Tree #490
This tree is from my past. It was at a little historical park on the northern tip of Ganghwa Island, about 30 km northwest from my home in Ilsan, South Korea. I’d gone there when my mother was visiting me in Korea. I took the picture in October, 2013.
From the promontory at the little fortress there, you can see directly into North Korea, across the river – this is the part of the DMZ where the border runs in the river. A few hundred meters away from that tree, this is a view across the river. Those mountains in the distance are in North Korea. There are little coin-operated binoculars and you can look into the North Korean town over there.
Caveat: Tree #489
This alder tree is one inch tall. I spotted it near my greenhouse.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #488
Occasionally it would be nice to have an actual, optical telephoto lens instead of just the digital zoom on my phone’s camera. I wanted to capture this small orange and gray hummingbird atop this tree. It’s blurry. But you can sorta make it out.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #487
This tree is good at sharing the limelight.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #486
A tree grows under the sky.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #485
The tree has captured its ancestor.
[daily log: walking, 1.5mi]
Caveat: Tree #484
This tree on the left foregrounds a view of Gobong, a prominent hill in Ilsan, my former Korean home. You can see the distinctive radio tower on the mountain. Nestled at the foot of the radio tower is the Yeochan Temple, which I often visited. I took this picture in Jeongbalsan Park a few blocks from my apartment in October, 2015.
Caveat: Tree #483
This here tree got photo-bombed by a damp spring flower.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #482
Say hi to the nice tree.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #481
This is one of those tree pictures that might be more about the sky.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #480
This is a redwood tree. In fact, it is what is called metasequoia, or “dawn redwood,” a strange variety of redwood that loses its needles in winter. They are planted all over Seoul, though not native there.
I took this picture in January, 2009, in Goyang, Korea, a few blocks from my apartment.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #479
This tree resists the wind.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #478
Why did the tree cross the road?
It didn’t. Quit making stuff up.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #477
This alder tree is beginning to send out some early leaves.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #476
The tree yearns to be free.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #475
The tree is not alone.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #474
This tree is from my past. I took this picture at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, in November, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #473
This is a tiny pine tree. These types of trees are quite common in the muskeg, between 7 mile and 8 mile along the road out here. But on these two lots here at 8.6 mile, I have only ever found one of them, lurking gloomily up the hill a hundred feet or so among many alders and sitka spruce.
I uprooted this baby from along the road at 7.5 mile and planted it in front of my greenhouse.
[daily log: walking, 2km; chainsawing and woodsplitting, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #472
This tree looms over me.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #471
This tree is from my past. I took this picture in April, 2015. I’m standing on the foot bridge that goes over Ilsan-no (Ilsan Road) in Ilsan, right in front of my place of employment, the Karma Language Academy (which is the orange and white sign on the building on the left). Spring in Korea was always kind of smoggy and horrible, but the blooming trees were sometimes beautiful.
[daily log: walking, 1km; chainsawing & woodsplitting, 1.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #470
Sometimes you must choose your own tree, from among many that present themselves, each with their respective merits.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #469
This tree is not like other trees. This tree was created in my imagination, to accompany a narrative I was constructing for an elementary-aged student in April, 2017, in Korea. I often would draw pictures and tell stories to students, as a way to motivate intrinsic learning. This is from one of the frequent one-on-one sessions I’d had.
The tree is at the center of the picture. It doesn’t appear to have played a major role in the narrative, but I can’t be sure. The student drew the bat in the upper left.
[daily log: walking, 2km; chainsawing, 1hr]