This tree plotted an escape skyward.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #1565 “An outing for fuel”
This tree bore witness to my journey to the metropolis of Klawock, where I purchased fuel. We no longer have a gas station in Craig, so fuel purchases require a 7 mile trip to the next town up the road. You can see there’s still a lot of snow on the mountains to the east.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1564 “Rock-catcher”
This tree (which has been decapitated) has caught a rock. It’s a bit hard to see how it fits in, but there is a fairly large rock wedged between two of the cut-off, upthrust branches. I’m wondering how it got there – it’s a few feet off the ground.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1563 “Robinson Crusoe”
This tree had a mountain behind it.
I built a shelf in my greenhouse. I was particularly proud of the fact that I used entirely “found” and “trash” items to build it – wood abandoned on the side of the road, some particle board shelf pieces found in the dumpster at work. I get a “Robinson Crusoe” feeling when I can do something like that, which pleases me.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1562 “A glowering sky”
This tree waited below a glowering sky.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1561 “Throwing shade”
This tree shaded some emerging huckleberry leaves.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1560 “Salmonberry blooms”
This tree saw spring’s first salmonberry blooms.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1559 “A low tide”
This tree witnessed a low tide.
[daily log: walking, 5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1558 “Magpie tree”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. The tree has a magpie in it. I took the picture in May, 2013 (10 years ago) in the neighborhood near my place of work in Ilsan, South Korea.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1557 “Not much traffic, anyway”
This tree was along the road home.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1556 “A reculvertization”
This tree saw that a new culvert was installed in the neighbor-to-the-east’s driveway. This has been a needed improvement for a long time: the old culvert was too small and would flood their driveway (and ours, adjacent) when there was a lot of rain. Which is pretty often.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1555 “The eagle’s stare”
This tree (in a neighbor-down-the-road’s yard) got stared at by an eagle (just barely visible perched near the middle of the double-row of disused pier pillars going out into the water).
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1554 “It’s just where I’m at”
This tree bore mute witness to frankly unprecedented levels of narcissism.
Which is to say, I put up my street sign.
[daily log: walking, 3km;]
Caveat: Tree #1553 “The abandoned artifact”
This tree provided shelter to a mysterious piece of abandoned technology down a steep hillside along the road.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1552 “A place for boats”
This tree was adjacent a big water, a place for boats, while the tide was low.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1551 “On the path up to the greenhouse”
This tree was alongside a small stream swollen with recent rain.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1550 “The view from the base of the treehouse”
This tree was at the view from the bottom of the steps to the treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1549 “Tiltier”
This tree is more tilted than some others.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1548 “Stellar jay”
This tree contained a stellar jay (a bluish bird, hard to see and not as strikingly blue as it seemed in real life).
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1547 “Blueberry blooms”
This tree was adjacent to some blueberry blooms.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1546 “Dog on the beach”
This tree hung out near the beach while the dog ran around on the mud flats at low tide, harassing seagulls.
You can see the dog as a white speck at the waterline in the left-center of the picture.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1545 “Veterans”
This tree was in front of the Veterans Center, in town.
I try to stop at the Veterans Center (=VFW Post) in Craig on Thursdays, when Arthur and I go into town for “shopping day.” Art resists, but I think at least some small degree of socialization must be good for him, despite his inclination otherwise. Anyway, he can hang out with other grumpy old men for a while. And Jan, who is the administrative head of the post and has helped much in the past with Veterans-related advocacy-type help, is a reliable friend.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1544 “Suntanning”
This tree was working on its suntan.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr; troubleshooting broken data, 3hr]
Caveat: Tree #1543 “A tangled life”
This tree was leading a tangled life.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1542 “The illumination”
This tree was infested by a treehouse – I haven’t posted a picture of the treehouse in a while. Not that much has changed – I’ve left it dormant all winter. But the sun touched it this afternoon.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1541 “Morning sun – disorienting”
This tree caught some morning sun.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1540 “A pair of chairs”
This tree sheltered a pair of yard chairs that faced the sea at the neighbors’ lot.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1539 “The road that doesn’t go where it seems to go”
This tree was along a road that seemed to lead to a snow-covered Sunnahae Mountain (hint: it doesn’t).
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1538 “A bluing sky”
This tree experienced puffy clouds in a bluing sky.
Chad was sick so I did a half-day at work today – not a normal Thursday occurrence. Then I went home, got Arthur, and drove back to town to do our normal Thursday shopping thing. This twice-to-town day reminded me that in fact the most tiring thing about my job is the commute – for whatever reason, I find the 8-mile, 30 minute drive fairly exhausting. Something about dodging some potholes and hitting others.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #1537 “Snow and sun”
This tree was recorded under fresh snow and sun yesterday morning.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1536 “The re-snowing”
This tree saw the re-snowing of Craig, Alaska.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1535 “Equinox? I don’t recall any equinox…”
This tree had been suffering under the illusion that winter was over.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1534 “Wet”
This tree was wet, down at the beach on lot 73.
I felt like my cold came back, after having gone into slight remission. So I didn’t get much done today. The sun came out for about 30 minutes and I went and planted some radishes in my greenhouse. But total rain for the day was nearly 2 inches. We’re getting a lot of rain.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]