This tree has apparently put in a request for additional snow. The request was granted this morning, here in the Rockpit suburbs.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #1508 “Rush hour”
This tree was right there along the main drag during rush hour, here in the downtown part of our Rockpit megalopolis.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1507 “Implausible anthropomorphization”
This tree believed itself to be eccentric.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1506 “Out along the road”
This tree was alongside an icy road.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1505 “What is this sun?”
This tree was enjoying some sun.
It was cold and windy, though.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1504 “Cold tree”
This tree is a coast redwood tree that I planted last year. It is cold.
I worked on my bucket list. It goes like this (this is a joke).
My bucket list
- 1. Buy a bucket
- 2. Think of stuff to put in bucket
- 3. Fail to come up with ideas
- 4. Find receipt
- 5. Return bucket
- 6. Take a nap
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1503 “Loitering”
This tree loitered behind a pile of rocks.
The neighbors’ dog returned from her Ketchikan junket, which was nice, so I walked the dog.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1502 “A life with rules”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. It was a tree with a regimented lifestyle. The picture was taken a few block from my apartment in Ilsan, South Korea, in January, 2017.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1501 “A house in the woods”
This tree was next to a house.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1500 “A supervisory role”
This tree supervised a frozen wasteland.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1499 “The Expressway”
This tree was watching a parade of ghosts.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1498 “Contact”
This tree was there as sunlight finally touched the snow-covered ground on lot 73.
[daily log: walking, 2km; snowshoveling, .5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1497 “Disgruntled down above the dock”
This tree noticed an eagle down on the dock’s arch, looking disgruntled.
[daily log: walking, 2km; snowshoveling, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #1496 “The tree outside”
This tree was outside the window.
We skipped our trip to town for Thursday “shopping day” due to poor road conditions. We have well-stocked cupboards, so we’ll not starve.
[daily log: walking, 2km; snowshoveling, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1495 “Add snow, add rain”
This tree was along side the main drag in town yesterday, as I took this picture looking out the window at the store where I work, at the Thompson House (supermarket) across the street. I wanted to capture the Minnesoteque scene.
Today, in fact, I didn’t go to work, as normally scheduled. The road has gotten very bad and treacherous with ice and slush, and only foolhardy or brave people were driving on it. We got a total of more than a foot of snow over the last 2 days, but then today we got more than an inch and a half of rain on top of the snow. Slushforest, indeed!
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; snowshoveling, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #1494 “Hustle and bustle”
This tree saw the hustle and bustle in downtown Rockpit.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #1493 “An excavation”
This tree oversaw the excavation of the car from a bunch of snow.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1492 “Still life”
This tree was by the pond and covered in ice and snow.
[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3.5km; snowshoveling, 1.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1491 “Facing the sea”
This tree was in our neighbors’ front yard, facing the sea.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km; snowshoveling, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1490 “A shift in the weather”
This tree is the same tree as yesterday’s tree, but the weather changed.
I had an eye doctor appointment this morning, so I drove in the snow to town and back.
[daily log: walking, 5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1489 “The local gloom is an objective fact”
This tree was touched by the morning sun at around 8 this morning.
That’s the tallest tree on lot 73. It means that the sun is only a few days or a week away from touching the ground there, as the sun’s angle in the sky steadily increases with the approaching equinox. Because of our position on the north side of a steep mountain, for 13 weeks each year the sun is too low in the sky to reach us – we live in perpetual shadow. That’s one reason why ice persists so effectively on the road. Because of this shadow, the south side of Port Saint Nick (the environs of the vast metropolis of Rockpit, Alaska) is a fundamentally gloomier place than the sunny north side – that’s an objective fact!
Well the gloom is just about over. Which doesn’t mean an end to winter weather: we’re forecast a snowstorm this coming weekend.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1488 “Obscurity”
This tree obscured part of the view of a mountain.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1487 “Deep in the southeast Alaskan slushforest”
This tree was feeling white at the top of ten-mile hill.
Yesterday our telephone landline and DSL stopped working. It was puzzling and distressing because its shutdown was correlated with a moment when I was vacuuming the living room and had moved a piece of furniture, where the telephone happens to be plugged in. So at first I thought the failure of the phone was somehow related to my having accidentally unplugged it or something like that. But after a lot of troubleshooting and trial and error, it seems the whole telephone line (including internet DSL) is dead.
I called APT (Alaska Power and Telephone) but all I got was a machine. I left a message. Maybe because it was presidents day yesterday?
But then this morning I decided to mess around more with the wires involved. Specifically, I switched out the wire connecting the DSL router to the wall – it’s probably 15 or 20 years old, after all. And it had a kind of janky-looking connector on one end. Somehow, my brain works better in the morning than it had been working yesterday afternoon, and I got the right combination and suddenly our phone service was working again. So it was something I’d knocked loose after all – just needed the right things plugged into the right places.
That’s the main adventure here. A bunch of snow yesterday but then rain on top of that, and it all melted again. Just that continuous precipitation with temperatures in the mid 30’s, which seems pretty typical. Not a “rainforest” but rather a “slushforest” really.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1486 “Standing still”
This tree stood still as snow advanced down the mountain.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1485 “Substantial rain”
This tree experienced substantial rain. It’s used to it.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1484 “On being”
This tree has been and continues to be along the road around 8.2 mile.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 4.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1483 “Some snow”
This tree was being snowed on, the other day. This was the view as I walked out the door.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; dogwalking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #1482 “A late winter’s morning”
This tree was along a snowy road.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 5km]
Caveat: Tree #1481 “Slushfest”
This tree began the day amid heavy falling snow in downtown Rockpit.
Later the snow turned to heavy rain and by the time I left to go to work it was just a messy slushfest. When I got home, I saw on our rain gauge that we got over 2 inches of rain today. Definitely a precipitous event.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1480 “Just a sprinkling”
This tree and others on lot 73 received a sprinkling of snow.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1479 “Beside a restless sea”
This tree was beside a restless sea.
I didn’t walk the dog this morning, because things were very snowstormy. But later there were periods of clearing.
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1478 “Towering”
This tree towers mightily.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1477 “Far, far away”
This tree is across the sea from me.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]