This tree seems more average than your average tree.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #590
This tree is all alone in a plain of gravel.
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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.
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Caveat: Tree #583
This tree awaits momentous changes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
Caveat: Tree #571
I took this picture of a tree near Marquette, Michigan, in November, 2009.
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Caveat: Tree #570
This is a tree which I happened to see.
In other news – I “bit the bullet” today. A part-time job was offered at the Alaska Gift shop – one of the places I’d applied at some months ago, before the advent of COVID. Apparently one of the other part-timers there just quit, so Jan called me and made the offer, and I drove to town and filled in the paperwork and met the store’s owners. It’s just an entry-level retail job, such as I worked to put myself through college, at the bookstore in Minneapolis. I will be working Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We’ll see how things work out.
I could argue that it makes me feel young: “starting over” at age 55. But what to do? The teaching concept seems unlikelier by the day, up here, and … I’d rather work “dead end” retail than try to sell myself as some kind of “Telecommuting” IT person, which is the main alternative, if a job must be had.
In yet other news, my garden is growing a few beets. I decided to try an experiment, and made some pickled beets, yesterday. Arthur and I had some with dinner, this evening. They taste pretty okay.
[daily log: walking, 1km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #569
This tree is seen in silhouette.
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Caveat: Tree #568
This tree is a guest post from the past. I took this picture of a tree in Duluth, in November, 2009.
[UPDATE NOTE: This tree is the same as Tree #206. The past is omnipresent.]
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Caveat: Tree #567
I’m sure this tree has been featured before – it’s very close to the house.
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Caveat: Tree #566
This tree, somewhat blurry because it was rather distant, is leaning out just east of Tranquil Point, trying to catch some rays and block the view.
[daily log: walking, 1km; boating, 25km]
Caveat: Fishing Report #(n+10)
We started much later than usual, because we hadn’t planned on going. The weather report last night said it would windy and rainy. When I got up and looked out at 6, it was sunny and calm. So I re-checked the weather, and the forecasters had changed their minds. When Arthur got up at his normal time – around 830 – I suggested today might be a good day for fishing, after all.
So we left by around 930.
We went first to San Juan Island, where we’d had luck last Friday.
Today, we had no luck there. Zero nibbles.
But it was nice and calm. We motored south to near Tranquil Point, on the Prince of Wales mainland there. We had noted some other boats trolling along the coast, and thought maybe they knew something we didn’t.
I guess maybe they did. We put our hooks in just west of Tranquil, and within a minute, we had a bite. And so we circled around there, about 5 orbits in total, and landed 9 coho.
Arthur was pleased. Until we got home, and he had to butcher and clean and package all his fish. Then he was grumpy. I refuse to help in this process, because whenever I try to do something related to fish butchery or preservation, he hovers at my shoulder and tells me I’m doing everything wrong.
But I went down and cleaned the boat, and then I harvested some lettuce from the greenhouse, and then I found a few blueberries to pluck.
Year-to-date totals:
- Coho: 21
- Halibut: 1
- Lingcod: 1
Here are nine bloody fishies in the holding tank in the back of the boat.
Caveat: Tree #565
This tree is foregrounded by some deer.
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Caveat: Tree #564
This tree is a guest tree from the past. It’s a Dawn Redwood (metasequoia), along my walk-to-work route in Ilsan, Korea, taken in November, 2017. The trees look and feel like the redwoods I grew up with in far northern California (sequoia sempervirens), but unlike those, these Asian redwoods turn color and lose their leaves (needles) in the Fall. Also, they don’t grow quite so tall. I’ve been “homesick” for Korea a lot, lately.
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Caveat: Tree #563
This is a small alder. A smallder!
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Caveat: Tree #562
I attached a sail to my treehouse. Which, you will notice, is attached to a tree. So I can use this picture for my daily tree, though admittedly this same tree has featured before – but with less attached to it.
[daily log: walking, 2km]