Caveat: Tree #365

A year’s worth of trees. More or less.
I was with Arthur visiting his brother, my other uncle, Alan, in Colorado. I found myself struck by the stark trees in the snowscape there, and decided to take pictures of trees.
Without regret, I present a tree, one year on.
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I suppose some readers of this here blog thingy™ will feel that it’s a bit tedious and definitely lazy, all these trees. Where is the idiosyncratic, random content of old?
It still crops up, I guess. The character of the blog has evolved, over the years, there’s no denying. It’s more anodyne, now, in some respects. I’m sorry. I have come to appreciate the daily poems and trees as a way to ensure I get something posted every day, even when I’m uninspired. I lean on them as habits, to force a communication with a world that I otherwise would quickly neglect. Which is a way to say, “Sorry if the trees are boring, but they’re better than nothing at all, right?”
Have a happy new year.
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Caveat: Tree #364

The weather wants to turn to snow, but it’s being quite wonky in the transition. Some rain, some snow, some rain again.
The trees are at a loss how to respond, and I did not wish to photograph them in their disarray. Plus it was quite windy outside.
Here is a tree from the archives. Korea, July, 2014.
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Caveat: Tree #363

The last several weeks have been preternaturally warm, considering. It’s been in the mid to high 40’s (F) the last week or so. Plenty of rain, but that temperature range could be summer here.
This tree was trying to hide behind the broken, decaying body of its deceased elder.
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Caveat: Tree #361

Behold, another tree was there to be seen.
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I will make the observation that when the power goes out (not uncommon in this corner of Alaska), I take more walks. So hopefully once a day.
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Caveat: Tree #360

This is really more than one tree. And a mountain out along the road.
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picture[daily log: walking, 3km]

Caveat: Tree #359

This tree is in front of Mike and Penny’s house down the road at 9.4 mile.
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Caveat: Tree #357

I walked over to Mike and Penny’s for Xmas dinner. They are my closest neighbors, about 3/4 of a mile down the road. They have been generous and kind to Arthur over the years and to me since my arrival here.
I saw this tree in their living room. It is fake. But very Christmassy.
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Earlier I made cookies to take and share with them.
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Arthur is down in California with Juli, Keith, Jenna, Braden – for Christmas – as I was last year.
Juli sent me this picture. Arthur is a “snowbird” – a retiree who goes somewhere warm in the winter.
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Caveat: Tree #355

I saw this tree in town when I went to shop. It was actually raining really hard, but you can’t really see the rain.
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Sunset at 3:20.
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Caveat: Tree #352

This picture is from the last time we went out in the boat – more than a month ago. I like the cabin (or float-house?) stranded on the beach at a weird angle. The tree is just supervising.
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Caveat: Tree #351

A tree for December.
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Last night I went to Jeri and Karl’s for dinner. They’re down the road a ways further, around 10 mile. They are retirees, Arthur’s age. The have cats and black labrador. I enjoy the pets. I probably talked too much.
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Caveat: Tree #347

Do you wonder if it’s Christmas yet? Some people do. Now there’s a website with answers.
Meanwhile, this looks a bit like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree.
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picture[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

Caveat: Tree #346

Here is another guest tree – a picture taken by my mother in Australia.
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Caveat: Tree #345

I went into town today. With just me, and not Arthur here, going in on Thursday isn’t necessary – he goes on Thursday for the Senior Discounts. I decided to go on Friday. Also, I didn’t actually need many groceries – I am eating more in my bachelor style: I just made a big pot of rice and beans and have that every day for lunch. I have salads for dinner. I don’t run out of food as fast, when it’s just me.
I didn’t take a picture of a tree. Here is a tree from when I was at Juli and Keith’s in Oregon, over Thanksgiving.
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picture[daily log: walking, 3km]

Caveat: Tree #342

I think I finally turned the corner on this flu-thing that hit me hard after getting back here. I’ve been using it as an excuse (I think a valid one) to not yet start some projects I’ve had in mind now that I’m back home, including updating my interaction with the school district (in hopes I can move up the potential substitute list). I coughed and sneezed less this evening than previous recent days. Knock on wood.
For example, this tree is made of wood.
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NOTE: The last day or two, my blog site has been under a pretty intense, sustained effort to hack. So far it seems to be resisting, though the blog’s automated emailer has been spamming my email inbox with notifications of failed logins and junky comments (100’s to 1000’s per hour). This all may impact the performance of the blog. I am trying a few different security measures to tackle the problem, but I’m not very experienced with this. If the blog disappears for a while, please don’t be alarmed – I’ve created a full back-up, and worst case, I’ll take it down and rebuild it at some point. Thank you for your patience.
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Caveat: Tree #341

Do you get tired of trees? I don’t. I find solace in them, and company. It’d be nice if my life was more interesting. What am I doing? I’m still sick with my never-ending flu-thing. But it seems to be getting better. I have been cleaning and rearranging the attic – that’s a big job. I have been doing some work cleaning up my server, too. Trying to consolidate things so I can start a new project, there. I’m staying busy.
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To supplement the tree, here is the hill across the inlet.
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To supplement the hill, here is a fleet of some ducks disturbing the still water – mostly you can see their wakes.
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picture[daily log: walking, 4km]

Caveat: Tree #340

This is the rising, almost-full moon, at 4pm (! – yes it gets dark early right now). I took the picture with no flash, it ended up blurry and the foregrounded tree on the left is only barely visible.
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Caveat: Tree #338

It was a busy day of getting water restarted, cleaning things up, getting resettled. Not helpful that my head-cold, seemingly on the mend, reasserted itself. Of course, I could attribute that to the airplane – there’s a strong correlation in my experience between head-cold symptoms and airplane travel.
Well anyway here I am. I didn’t take a picture of a tree, exactly. Here is Sunnahae at dawn – it has trees.
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picture[daily log: walking, 3km]

Caveat: Tree #337

I was traveling all day. I don’t have a tree picture. But I took this picture of boats in Ketchikan. Maybe there’s a tree in the far distance to the right behind the boats you could select? Or imagine the masts of the boats are trees.
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picture[daily log: walking: 6km]

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