This tree is feeling a bit out of its depth.
This dog is on thin ice.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 4km]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #1052
This tree saw the sun touch Sunnahae mountain.
This dog also saw that.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3.5km; snowshovelling, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1051
This tree is tilted (well, maybe it was the camera).
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 4km]
Caveat: Dogwalking #2
In my neverending quest to enumerate all of life’s sundry banalities, I will share some pictures from a second dogwalk, this morning, after having written up the first dogwalk yesterday. The world is being exceptionally photogenic lately, anyway.
Caveat: Tree #1050
This tree is from my past. I took this picture in April, 2016, along a street a few blocks north from my apartment in Ilsan, Korea. It’s along the main route I would take to walk to the cancer center, along the western edge of Jeongbalsan Park. The pink paper lanterns hanging on the trees are part of the celebration of Buddhamas (Buddha’s birthday), a normal springtime holiday generally falling in April or May.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Dogwalking
Our neighbors-down-the-road, Mike and Penny, have a dog named Maya. Maya is a very energetic young malamute. Yesterday when I was at work, Penny came into the gift shop and reported that Mike had had an incident while walking the dog, and had fallen down and because of that, was now unable to walk the dog. Penny described a dog desperate for dogwalking.
Now that I am not working so much on my treehouse project – which was a lot of physical labor and excellent exercise – I think I need to start walking more. So I volunteered to walk down to Mike and Penny’s house and take the dog on a walk. What better morning for a neighborly dogwalk than one coated in fresh-fallen snow? I walked down to their house, collected the dog, walked with her back up to our house and back down to their house again, then walked back home. Total, about 5km just for that.
Here are some pictures from my long dogwalk.
Caveat: Tree #1049
This tree was by the road.
I went and got Arthur at the airport after leaving work today. He arrived safely back among the trees and precipitation.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1048
This tree experienced typical weather.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 8.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1047
This tree is bent under snow.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1046
This tree caught snowflakes.
[daily log: walking, 2km; shoveling snow, 30min]
Caveat: Tree #1045
This tree was near a house.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #1044
This tree was still in the mountain’s shadow at almost mid-day.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1043
This tree failed to express gratitude.
I went to Wayne and Donna’s (the gift shop owners) for an unconventional thanksgiving dinner of ribs and potatoes. They are in a stressful time – they are leaving for Seattle in the next few days, where Donna is scheduled for tumor-removing surgery. Which is something I can sympathize with.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #1042
This tree sheltered a deer by the road (lower left).
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1041
This tree had some snow on it.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1040
This tree was there as two mice prepared for a burial-at-sea.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1039
This tree is diligently guarding the path up to the greenhouse.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #1038
This tree was there as the rain turned to snow turned to rain turned to snow ↻ ↻ ↻ …
This morning I watched Art board a plane on his way to Portland for Thanksgiving. “Bye, Art.”
Then I worked at the giftshop all day. “Buy art.”
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #1037
This tree is (these trees are?) nefariously blocking an unobstructed view of my treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1036
This tree was all gloomy-doomy in the morning gloaming, up on the hillside.
[daily log: walking, 1km; opportunistic napping, 3hr]
Caveat: Tree #1035
This tree gave up on having leaves.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1034
This tree is growing out of a snowy stump.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Poem #1934 “The day”
ㅁ Got to work, put the flag. There was snow. I'd driven slow, hit no snag. No customers, what a drag.
– an englyn penfyr.
Caveat: Tree #1033
This tree (which tree? – maybe the dead one in the water?) saw first snow on the beach.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Frame Shop Journal #12
I don’t post these frame shop journals very often. There has been a slackening of demand for framing projects, but I still have done quite a few since my last entry in this series, two and a half months ago. I have been somewhat negligent in taking pictures of all these, however. Here are a few from the last 9 weeks, in no particular order.
This last frame is “kinda weird.” I had the framed picture (part of the store’s stock of prints and artworks) but a customer wanted the frame. Wanting to keep the customer happy, I cannibalized the frame from this picture. But now I had a picture, with matting and glass, but no frame. I decided to improvise a temporary frame using cardboard – this was because something was needed to hold the glass in place. If the work gets bought, the customer can order a nicer frame, or just take the artwork and leave the glass and matting.
Today I struggled with a poor-quality frame received from our increasingly-poor-quality supplier. The wooden slots cut at the supplier to place the wedges to hold the frame together were in several cases partly broken, or broke immediately upon attempting to connect things. The wood was too soft and the frame was too large to work with so few and such small slots.
I had to improvise, using metal fasteners and glue. I can’t say it was a super high-quality frame as an outcome. Anyway at least the outcome was better than the last time I tried to improvise a solution to a badly-wrought frame from our suppliers.
Caveat: Tree #1032
This tree helps support the east end of the treehouse. I thought this was a very clear view of the “suspension bridge” style that I use to attach the deck of the treehouse to the tree.
[daily log: walking, 2km; moving and lifting stuff in the treehouse, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #1031
This tree is feeling overwhelmed by the surrounding brambles.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1030
This tree is from my past. I believe it’s up on Gobong Mountain near the 영천사 (a Buddhist temple) in Ilsan, walking distance from my home and work, there. I’m guessing I took the picture sometime in 2013.
[daily log: walking, 1km; counting raindrops, 30mm]
Caveat: Tree #1029
This tree glowered near the top of the stairs.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; moving lumber, 0.5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1028
This tree looks like an alien to me.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1027
This tree gathered some slushy snow in the morning before it turned back to rain.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1026
This tree saw a cloud-shrouded Sunnahae Mountain on a sunny, chill day.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1025
This tree was there when an orangish cloud was reflected in the sea.
[daily log: walking, 2km]