This is a little one-foot-tall western hemlock that I tried to transplant to the gravel hillside of the new driveway.
I’ve messed some with planting alder saplings, and they seem to do well enough on average. But something about the hemlocks makes them resist transplantation – they all seem to die. This, despite growing like weeds everywhere. I think they have fragile root systems.
Anyway, this little hemlock gives me hope, because it put out some green buds just these past two days. Like maybe, it has decided to live.
I’m struggling, lately, with feeling stuck and unmotivated. I’ll wait it out.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #526
This tree sees clouds.
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Caveat: Tree #525
One of these trees is a rebel. I’m worried that I posted it before. But if I did, just consider it the price of arboreal notariety.
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Caveat: Tree #524
These are two trees. Actually, only the middle part of two trees. But there was this fat-looking raptor lurking there on a branch. I wasn’t sure, but when I showed Art the picture, he said it was a fledging eagle. I could buy that based on appearance… but if a fledging, it’s a fat, well-fed one. It looked larger than its mama.
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Caveat: Tree #523
This tree is… um, wait, which tree am I talking about?
[daily log: walking, 1km; fish-seeking, 30nm]
Caveat: Tree #522
This tree is nearby.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #521
The tree in the center of this photo is noticeable, stark against the horizon. We went out trying to catch fish this morning. Not much luck.
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Caveat: Tree #520
This tree is starting out.
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Caveat: Tree #519
I didn’t take a picture of a tree today. I offer this tree from my past. I took this picture at a rest area in Arizona in 2012, during a visit back to the US from my home-at-that-time in Korea.
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Caveat: Tree #518
But the question is… if you needed to, could you pick this tree out of a lineup?
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Caveat: Tree #517
This tree overlooks the road.
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Caveat: Tree #516
This tree has its toes in the sea.
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Caveat: Tree #515
I was shocked to see this tree.
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Caveat: Tree #514
This tree leaned in, wanting to be popular (click to embiggen).
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #513
This tree appears in an old-timey black-and-white photograph.
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Caveat: Tree #512
Which tree is today’s tree?
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Caveat: Tree #511
This tree blends in with other trees.
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Caveat: Tree #510
This is the tree that was in flames last August. I think, now, that it will not survive.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boat-driving, 30nm]
Caveat: Gone fishin’
Art gazes out toward home, because no fish where hungry for hooks today. We got a few ugly red snappers – which is good whitefish but bony. But no halibut nor salmon. In the picture we were at the (not-so-) auspiciously-named Shipwreck Reef.
Earlier we’d been along the east side of San Juan Island and then down around Tranquil Point and Estrella Bay.
The clouds were nice.
Caveat: Tree #509
A tree has coordination problems.
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Caveat: Tree #508
This tree is trying to leap into the sea.
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Caveat: Tree #507
I relocated this little 8″ tall pine tree from the muskeg at 7.4 mile to my lot 73. I like the pines, because they develop interesting shapes when they grow taller. It’s not clear to me that they are native trees or were brought here. Certainly they are much rarer than the “big 4” endemics: Western Hemlock, Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Alder. I’ve only found one growing on its own on Lot 73. I’ve relocated several here from the muskeg, though. We’ll see how they do.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #506
This tree has patience.
[daily log: walking, 2km; attaching a giant lag screw to a tree, 3hr]
Caveat: Tree #505
This tree was along my walking commute to work in Ilsan, Korea. I took this picture in November, 2015.
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Caveat: Tree #504
This tree is too close for comfort.
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Caveat: draining…
Arthur’s house has a drain.
Meaning, there’s a valve down near the water that you can open to drain the entire house’s water system. This is useful and important for when you want to winterize the house, to prevent water from freezing in the pipes in the event the house won’t be heated for a period of time.
Over the past winter the valve apparently broke. This wasn’t a problem because there is also a valve inside the house that leads out to this valve, so we just kept that inside valve closed. But when we went to use the boat, we realized that the dock water supply is downstream from that inside-the-house valve. That meant that the only way we could get the water running on the dock was to fix this house-drain valve.
That’s what I did this morning. Arthur borrowed a PEX-pipe-fitting crimping tool from our neighbor Mike, and we’d bought a new valve at the hardware store last Thursday, so I took off the old broken valve and put on the new one.
I feel almost competent, some days.
Caveat: Tree #503
This tree witnesses the departing day.
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Caveat: Tree #502
This young alder appeared on the slope below the new driveway.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #501
This tree has a hole in it. I put the hole there, as part of my treehouse project. So this tree is the same tree that can be seen on the left in Tree #499.
[daily log: walking, 2km; smashing finger, 1]
Caveat: Poem #1386 “A thousand words”
ㅁ cloud-fragments caught in water, like pink paint; nature's thoughts faint... earth's blotter... there: got her.
– an englyn cil-dwrn
Caveat: Tree #500
The five-hundredth tree differs in few respects from many other trees. But it is unique.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; fishing, ~40 nautical miles]
Caveat: Halibut #1
Last year’s fishing season we were halibutless.
We went out with Joe this morning, and out at San Francisco Point on the eastern edge of Noyes Island, we caught one modest-sized halibut. So I think (hope) Arthur was pleased.
We trolled for salmon, too. A lot. The salmon were uninterested in our hooks.
Here we are trolling by Joe’s house, just down the inlet a mile or so. Joe is gazing at his house.
Here is the small halibut.
Here is a view of the “back” side of Sunnahae Mountain – that is to say, we are looking at it from the north: it’s the peak in the center. This is not the view we normally have of the mountain – we see the south side of the mountain from our home. You can click this picture to make it larger.
Caveat: Tree #499
Closer to the ground, these two trees are hosting my treehouse plans.
[daily log: walking, 2km]