Category: My Photos

This tree is branching out.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree (let’s say, for the sake of argument, the tree on the far right) saw me stop in Klawock to buy gas. I felt the fact there was still a lot of snow on the mountains in early July was notable.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]

This tree tasted the sea – photo taken a week or so ago, while out in the boat.

[daily log: walking, 2km; rendering-unto-database-gods, 8hr]

This tree was with a deer.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km; boating, 40km]

This tree was across the street from my apartment in Yeonggwang, Jeollanam, South Korea. I took the picture in December, 2010.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree has an angle on things.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree is located on the far left of this photo, twice.

[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 30km]

This tree is from the past. It’s a tree in front of the house in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where Michelle (my wife) died in the year 2000, on or around this date. We don’t actually know the day she died, because she committed suicide and her body was only found some days later, but in recent years I’ve settled on June 25 as the anniversary of her death. In fact, I never lived in this house. Michelle and I had separated (but not divorced) and this was the house she moved into shortly after that separation. I did end up spending some time in this house, though, after her death. I spent a very intense and grim few days there, while staying in a motel, cleaning up and collecting our shared possessions and placing them into storage. I also returned to visit the house some years later, in 2009, and took this picture.

[UPDATE] It has come to my attention that this same picture, somewhat more cropped than above, was featured as Tree #282, about a year and a half ago. Rather than delete or alter this tree picture, I’ll point out that the cropping of the earlier posting of this picture clearly “chooses” the darker, denser tree on the left, near the picture’s center. So I can suggest that this time round, I’m choosing the tree on the right instead – the one closer to the street. In any event, as I said in that earlier blog-entry, Michelle’s ghost sometimes makes requests.

[daily log: walking, 2km]

This tree is entangled with its siblings.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree is about 2 years old. I have been monitoring its growth since it appeared on the berm of the upper parking area on lot 73.

[daily log: walking, 1km]

This tree has a funny shape.

[daily log: walking, 2km; chowdering, 4quarts]

This tree has an island.

[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 35km]

This tree oversaw a deer’s approach.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]

This tree is not sideways, but I am.

[daily log: walking, 2km]

This tree is southwest of the treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6.5hr]

This tree was photographed by me in February, 2011. I was looking out the stairway window of my apartment in Hongnong, Jeolla Province, South Korea. The building in the background is the rural public elementary school where I worked from May 2010 until May 2011.

[daily log: walking, 2km]

This tree is trying to be amphibious.

[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 25km]

This tree saw me sitting in a boat messing with wires and looking up at some fluffy clouds and distant, still-snow-covered peaks.

[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 20km]

This tree is alive.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6.5hr]

This young alder tree is growing near some small blue forget-me-not flowers – Alaska’s state flower.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]