This tree is the little cedar that I attempted to transplant a little over a year ago (tree #237).
Surprisingly, it’s not dead. But it doesn’t seem to be particularly thriving, either.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #600
Though numerologically significant, this tree is just a middling-quality tree at best.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #599
The tree towers over the human things.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Once a year whether it needs it or not
Because the sun was out, I decided I should wash the GDC. I had taken off the tarp covering it, last month, thinking there would be summer sun to bake out some of the mold and moss beginning to grow on it. But with the gray and rainy August we had, it just got greener. So with the sun out, unexpectedly, today, I decided it was time.
I drove it up to the upper parking area next to the greenhouse, and washed it with a soft scrub brush and soapy water and the hose off the well.
A stellar jay came by, apparently interested in the undertaking.
After the GDC was clean (or, um, cleaner, anyway), I decided to wash the Blueberry, too. Although to be frank, that’s a sisyphean task – one commute into town will have it well-coated in gray grime again.
Caveat: Tree #598
This tree got noticed by the sun.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #597
This tree has aspirations.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #596
There are trees, here.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #595
This tree is one of the smaller trees that I am currently permitting to stick up through the temporary deck of my tree house. I kind of want to keep it, but I might end up removing it.
You might ask, “What’s up with the treehouse? You haven’t posted much about it lately…”
In fact, I stopped working on it. The treehouse project was focused on things that didn’t require my spending more money. I reached a point where I needed to invest some more money – I need lumber for the permanent deck. I don’t want to spend money on that project, right now. Maybe after I’ve worked for a while at the gift shop and saved up some money.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #594
This is a huckleberry bush with some huckleberries, but it’s sufficiently tree-like that I decided to include it here.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #593
This cedar tree is younger than the western hemlocks behind and beside it.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #592
I took this picture of a tree when I was driving south of Ketchikan along the coast in November, 2009.
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Caveat: Tree #591
This tree seems more average than your average tree.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #590
This tree is all alone in a plain of gravel.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #589
This tree has fallen and can’t get up.
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Caveat: Tree #588
This tree is taller than me.
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Caveat: Tree #587
Here is another tree from the past: this tree is in Kagoshima, Japan. The active Sakurajima volcano is in the background. I took that picture in April, 2010 – as you can tell by the blossoms on the tree.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #586
This tree is in front of the public school I taught at in Hongnong Village, Yeonggwang County, in rural southern South Korea. I took it in May, 2010. My classroom is the rightmost visible window on the first floor.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #585
I took this picture of a tree driving on a road (wait, was I driving on the road, or was the tree?) somewhere north of Thorne Bay (Northeast Prince of Wales Island) in October, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #584
This is another of my “pile of rocks” pictures that happens to have a tree in it.
It’s been my turn to suffer some computer problems. Not sure quite what: seems like I’ve just gotten my hard drive too full and need to clean house. I get upset when Arthur has his computer problems – but I see that as being because of how he starts cussing and carrying on about it. I try to remain more calm, but there’s no denying it can put one out of sorts.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #583
This tree awaits momentous changes.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Poem #1483 “Reflected glory”
ㅁ The world exists twice: Once above the lounging sea; Once somewhere below.
– a pseudo-haiku
Caveat: Tree #582
This tree caught some rays.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #581
I found a forest of 2-inch-tall alders.
I made some progress on the treehouse. I finished the cables to the new bolt in the eastern tree. I tightened them up and got the eastern support beam lifted off the bolt under its center. Because it was windy, this produced an impressive result: the eastern end of the treehouse platform began to swing, ever so slightly, back and forth. But the corner cables remained taut, so the platform felt securely anchored. I felt pleased with the result.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #580
This young alder experiences an unexpected hole in the summer’s eternal overcast.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #579
This is the eastern tree of the two treehouse trees, now with its new “upper bolt” holding the cables. I think this works much better – anyway the platform now feels more securely anchored to the trees.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #578
This alder is growing in the middle of Arthur’s “yard” (moss garden) – near the corner of where my storage tent had been positioned for my first year here.
I made some progress on the treehouse today – drilling my last hole and putting in the last giant lag bolt, to hook up the suspension cables down to the corners.
Tomorrow, I will go to work.
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Caveat: Tree #577
These are some trees seen on the beach near Tranquil Point. Note the young deer strolling along in the lower right, which admittedly was the main reason I took the picture. But it didn’t come out so well – the zoom on this new phone camera is even worse than on my old phone camera.
[daily log: walking, 1km; boating, 30km]
Caveat: Fishing Report #(n+12)
We left by 7:20. The weather forecast wasn’t great, but it was the best of upcoming days, so I thought we should try. In fact, the weather was better than forecast, with flat water and very little wind. But it was overcast and kept trying to rain, and by the time we got home it was raining steadily.
We went out to Black Beach at the north end of San Juan first. We trolled down the east side of San Juan. Then we crossed from San Juanito (the southeast corner of San Juan) over to Tranquil Point, where we’d had so much luck two outings ago. We trolled westward to Port Estrella. We never caught anything but some tiny black bass, which Arthur threw back. Arthur said he had one bigger fish hooked right against Joe Island, but it apparently got away.
We tried for halibut in Port Estrella for about 30 minutes. Some other boats were there, but it wasn’t obvious they were catching anything either. No fish were being hauled on board the other boats, that we could see.
We returned to trolling, and circled Port Estrella a few times and then headed back along the shore back to Tranquil Point. Still nothing.
At 1 PM, we gave up and went to the fuel dock just north of Craig, to fill up the tank. Then we went home, watching the boat’s weirdly asynchronous windshield wipers in the steady rain and contemplating the moods of fish. We were fishless.
Year-to-date totals.
- Coho: 21
- Halibut: 1
- Lingcod: 1
Here is a small island just off Point Providence on the western tip of a peninsula of Prince of Wales Island, at Port Estrella.
When we got home, after cleaning the boat I walked up along the road in the rain and found some huckleberries and blueberries up in the shrubberies south of the road.
Caveat: Tree #576
This tree is mostly green.
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Caveat: Tree #575
I suppose I have some small obsession with finding ever younger trees. This is the smallest alder I have found so far – it is less than 1/2 inch tall.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #574
This is only 15% of a tree. It extends below and above the frame.
[daily log: walking, 1km; boating, 25km]
Caveat: Tree #573
I took this picture of a tree next to the garish pink Federal Building in downtown Ketchikan in November, 2009.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #572
Actually this is a picture of a pile of rocks. But there is a tree in it too, so I figured that would work out if I used it as my daily tree.
[daily log: walking, 1km; retailing, 4hr]