Category: My Photos

Caveat: Tree #1638 “Baby pine tree”

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This tree is a baby pine tree I transplanted from near the 7 mile bridge to my lot two years ago. It’s doing well. Pine trees are not actually part of the local micro-ecosystem – they tend to prefer the muskeg areas such as are found down the road a mile or so, closer to the river. So on my lot, it’s an exotic.

A small pine tree, with other trees in the background

I worked today even though it wasn’t my normal work day, filling in for a coworker who was traveling. For some reason, it was exceptionally exhausting. Working retail when it’s busy is socially demanding.

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Caveat: Tree #1637 “A survivor”

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This tree is a cherry tree I planted as a seedling over a year ago. Last fall, the deer-pocalypse came and they ate almost the whole tree, but I thought it might survive, so I put a cage around it to protect it, and sure enough, it’s making a strong effort.

A foot-high cherry tree inside a chicken-wire enclosure, with other weeds and shrubs nearby and larger trees in the middle distance behind. All is green

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Caveat: Tree #1634 “Millaa Millaa”

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This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture near the town of Millaa Millaa, Queensland, in January, 2011. It’s not far from my mother’s home in Australia.

A large tree (not sure what kind) on the left side, not centered, with a rolling verdant landscape stretching to a far distance under brooding gray and white clouds

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Caveat: Tree #1633 “The hastening gloom”

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This tree was adjacent to hastening gloom.

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I spent an unpleasant hour at the dentist this morning, and then spent some time with Wayne (former gift store owner) in Klawock, whose website I host. The day ended up feeling hectic and unproductive after that.

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Caveat: Tree #1632 “Plumbing my limitations”

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / My Photos

This tree was out behind my shed-greenhouse thingy.

Some trees, some closer than others, and the sticking-out rafters of a small shed

I made a lot of progress the last few days. I finally took on the giant plumbing project that I’ve been procrastinating on. We had problems with the water-intake into the house freezing the last few winters during cold spells. The “heat-tape” Arthur had wrapped the inlet pipe in 20 years ago seemed to have failed, and last summer there were of course the issues with the main house filters (including UV-lamp sterilization, given the water is just runoff from our hillside). So I took everything apart, dug everything up, and re-plumbed things.

I still need to apply new heat-tape and winterize things, but the basics are in place and the set-up is more logical now. Here are the pipes at the point where they enter the house (on the west side of the boathouse, below the main house, straddling the electrical conduit, also visible). I will now have to bury it all.

A hole dug on the side of a house, showing part of the foundation, and some new pipes (plastic) and valves entering the house

And here is the new filter set up, directly behind the previous picture, inside on the wall of the boathouse. I will want to build a little insulated enclosure since the north end of the boathouse still gets below freezing sometimes in winter, it’s not well heated or insulated.

Some pipes attached to a piece of plywood, in an arrangement with valves such that two filters (a paper large filter and UV-light filter) can be activated or isolated

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

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / Life in Alaska / My Photos

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 #1623 “Some elderly alders”

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This tree enjoyed a light breeze.

A couple of white-barked, elderly alder trees rising up against a background of blue sky

“‘I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,’ said Toad.”

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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”

A Daily Tree / Life in Korea / My Photos

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 #1608 “경기도 고양시 정밠산공원”

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This tree is a guest tree from my past. There’s a tree and a magpie on a rope fence. I took this photo almost exactly 10 years ago, in June, 2013. It’s in the park on the hill a few blocks from my apartment in Ilsan (Goyang City), South Korea (경기도 고양시 정밠산공원).

Much greenery, a tree (missing its top) to right, mid-background, and a magpie sitting on a fence

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