Category: My Photos

Caveat: Tree #1630 “Eagle waits for the bus”

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This tree had to take a back seat to a grandstanding bald eagle standing by the side of the road looking for a ride to town (or so it seemed).

A fairly-close up view of fat bald eagle standing at the side of a dirt road, with some bushes and trees behind, under blue skies

I had to drive to town twice today. I’m trying to solve plumbing problems and needed to get supplies, and didn’t plan well what I needed. So I made two trips to the hardware store in town, where I spent money on plumbing fittings.

I’m finally working on solving the long-standing “pipes freezing in winter” problem we’ve seen sporadically the past two winters. The water intake for the whole house is exposed to the air where it enters the boatshed (the basement of the house). So when temperatures are sub-zero, the water will freeze and the house loses water. Interim solutions have involved running a hose (through snow drifts) from the well to the house, and also running a giant kerosene heater outdoors in the area where the pipe enters the house. A long-term solution requires digging up the pipe a bit, changing its configuration so it won’t freeze in the winter.

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Caveat: Tree #1627 “한국의 봄”

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#Photography #Korea

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in April, 2013, along my walk from my apartment to where I worked, in the Ilsan district in Goyang City (경기도 고양시 일산서구).

A picture along an avenue with some trees in front of a high-rise apartment building to the left, one of which is in full, pink-colored bloom

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Caveat: Tree #1625 “The fireweed blooms”

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This tree hung in the background while a fireweed plant bloomed [correction below].

A blooming fireweed plant in the center, on a hillside, lots of undergrowth and shrubberies then some conifers in the background up the hill, and a blue sky

[UPDATE: My friend and blog-reader, Pam, has corrected me: this plant is a foxglove, not fireweed. I should know this… but I didn’t.]

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Caveat: Tree #1619 “That one tree”

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This tree (but only this one tree) caught a stray ray of sunshine beneath gray clouds (just that little gleam of bright green).

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Unrelated:

“Do not try to solve the trolley problem—that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no trolley. General Motors bought them all up and had them dumped in the ocean.” – attributed quote circulating on the internet.

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Caveat: Tree #1612 “보문사”

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This tree is yet another guest tree from my past. It’s in the courtyard of a Buddhist temple called Bomunsa (보문사) which is on an island west of Seoul. I visited the temple during an excursion in August, 2013.

A large, twisted tree in a Buddhist temple courtyard, seen from higher vantage point, on the right, with people (tourists) standing around and several temple buildings nearby, the largest cut by the frame on the left

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Caveat: Tree #1610 “A very flat place”

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This tree is another guest tree from my past. I took this picture of a tree at sunset in a very flat place, just south of Winnipeg in late 2009. I was already living in South Korea at that time, but I’d returned to North America to do a road trip and visit friends and relatives.

A silhouette of some trees sometime after sunset, lingering bands of light in orange, pale green, blue, a very flat horizon

Yesterday and today I’ve been struggling with a problem with some backup processes on my blog server. So I’ve been working on that, and my outdoor projects have been on hold. The issue is still not entirely within my understanding. So I’m still working on it.

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Caveat: Tree #1605 “A migratory tablesaw”

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This tree (probably the one kind of barely visible on the right) was there when I finally got the tablesaw moved over from my treehouse to my greenhouse-shed-thing. It was quite difficult to move – too heavy to carry and not able to fit through the treehouse door without extensive disassembly – but I moved it and reassembled it successfully.

A picture of a structure that appears to perhaps be half-shed, half home-made greenhouse (clear plastic siding). There is a table saw visible through an open doorway, and some trees and greenery on the right in the background
You might wonder why I had the tablesaw in the treehouse. I’d put it up there a few years ago because a) I was working on the treehouse a lot and it was handy, but more importantly, b) because I was terrified Arthur would do something with the tablesaw under one of his sudden compulsions to be “handy” but where he doesn’t remember how to operate it safely.

Art and I spent a very long, tedious afternoon at the clinic. He had an appointment – it was just a follow up on the lab tests from before – but the doctor was running behind and so we had to sit around a lot.

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Caveat: Tree #1604 “Starting engines”

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This tree (the one out across the water, I guess) was there while I got the engines started on the boat for the first time. We’re not going out in the boat yet, I’m just doing maintenance on a sunny day, since those are pretty rare.

The foreground is the back of a small boat, with two outboard motors mounted, the smaller has its cover off. Across the blue water is a green hillside of trees, and above, blue skies

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Caveat: Tree #1603 “Secret pond”

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This tree is hiding.

Some trees by a pond, the pond barely visible, obscured by greenery, and some of the greenery is reflected in the water, camouflaging the pond

I ran across an unrelated, but humorous, alarming expression (courtesy of the internet): “Happier than a greased alligator at a family water park.”

Maybe there’s an Alaskan alligator in that pond?

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Caveat: Tree #1601 “광주 무등산”

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This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture of a tree just outside of Gwangju, South Korea, in June of 2010, on the flank of Mudeung Mountain (광주 무등산). I had gone there on a day-hiking trip with some colleagues from work. I believe the reservoir is this one (map link).

An old, thick tree branch with lots of greenery, overhanging still green water, the top edge of a concrete wall in the foreground

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Caveat: Tree #1599 “A stroll”

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This tree witnessed a small family out for a morning stroll.

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Unrelated, here is a quote that I found amusing:

“Never underestimate your fellow man’s lack of initiative.” – Bryan Caplan

To be clear, I take some issue with the author’s use of the gendered “fellow man” – it’s archaic, at this point, and there are plenty of more universalist alternatives that are utterly painless, e.g. simply “fellow human being’s” or even simply “other people’s” as opposed to “your fellow man’s”. That said, and given Caplan’s problematic relation (opposition) to feminism, perhaps we can take him at face value, and understand that he does, indeed, mean only men, here. In fact that might make the quote more amusing.

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Caveat: Tree #1598 “Waiting for illumination”

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#Photography #SoutheastAlaska

This tree experienced a moment of illumination.

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I got some baby lettuce out of my greenhouse, thinning the patch somewhat.

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Art had a doctor’s appointment this morning. Just some lab tests, nothing related to changed diagnosis. It took a long time because they wanted a urine sample, and that’s not something Art does on demand these days. I’ve always felt he’s chronically dehydrated, but I simply cannot convince him to drink more fluids.

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