I saw this tree in town when I went to shop. It was actually raining really hard, but you can’t really see the rain.
Sunset at 3:20.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #354
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This picture is from the last time we went out in the boat – more than a month ago. I like the cabin (or float-house?) stranded on the beach at a weird angle. The tree is just supervising.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #351
A tree for December.
Last night I went to Jeri and Karl’s for dinner. They’re down the road a ways further, around 10 mile. They are retirees, Arthur’s age. The have cats and black labrador. I enjoy the pets. I probably talked too much.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
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Do you wonder if it’s Christmas yet? Some people do. Now there’s a website with answers.
Meanwhile, this looks a bit like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
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I went into town today. With just me, and not Arthur here, going in on Thursday isn’t necessary – he goes on Thursday for the Senior Discounts. I decided to go on Friday. Also, I didn’t actually need many groceries – I am eating more in my bachelor style: I just made a big pot of rice and beans and have that every day for lunch. I have salads for dinner. I don’t run out of food as fast, when it’s just me.
I didn’t take a picture of a tree. Here is a tree from when I was at Juli and Keith’s in Oregon, over Thanksgiving.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #344
I worked outside during a break in the rain. Perhaps that means I’m feeling better.
I saw this tree. Go figure.
[daily log: walking, 2km; shoveling, 1.5hr]
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Caveat: Tree #342
I think I finally turned the corner on this flu-thing that hit me hard after getting back here. I’ve been using it as an excuse (I think a valid one) to not yet start some projects I’ve had in mind now that I’m back home, including updating my interaction with the school district (in hopes I can move up the potential substitute list). I coughed and sneezed less this evening than previous recent days. Knock on wood.
For example, this tree is made of wood.
NOTE: The last day or two, my blog site has been under a pretty intense, sustained effort to hack. So far it seems to be resisting, though the blog’s automated emailer has been spamming my email inbox with notifications of failed logins and junky comments (100’s to 1000’s per hour). This all may impact the performance of the blog. I am trying a few different security measures to tackle the problem, but I’m not very experienced with this. If the blog disappears for a while, please don’t be alarmed – I’ve created a full back-up, and worst case, I’ll take it down and rebuild it at some point. Thank you for your patience.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #341
Do you get tired of trees? I don’t. I find solace in them, and company. It’d be nice if my life was more interesting. What am I doing? I’m still sick with my never-ending flu-thing. But it seems to be getting better. I have been cleaning and rearranging the attic – that’s a big job. I have been doing some work cleaning up my server, too. Trying to consolidate things so I can start a new project, there. I’m staying busy.
To supplement the tree, here is the hill across the inlet.
To supplement the hill, here is a fleet of some ducks disturbing the still water – mostly you can see their wakes.
[daily log: walking, 4km]
Caveat: Tree #340
This is the rising, almost-full moon, at 4pm (! – yes it gets dark early right now). I took the picture with no flash, it ended up blurry and the foregrounded tree on the left is only barely visible.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
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It was a busy day of getting water restarted, cleaning things up, getting resettled. Not helpful that my head-cold, seemingly on the mend, reasserted itself. Of course, I could attribute that to the airplane – there’s a strong correlation in my experience between head-cold symptoms and airplane travel.
Well anyway here I am. I didn’t take a picture of a tree, exactly. Here is Sunnahae at dawn – it has trees.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #337
I was traveling all day. I don’t have a tree picture. But I took this picture of boats in Ketchikan. Maybe there’s a tree in the far distance to the right behind the boats you could select? Or imagine the masts of the boats are trees.
[daily log: walking: 6km]
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This tree is a guest tree. My mother took some pictures of trees and sent them to me for days when I failed to collect my own tree picture. So my mother told me this is a lemon scented gum tree in Australia.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #334
This is a tree up at the tree farm.
Today, we went to the VA hospital again with Arthur. This time, it was a one-year follow-up with the polytrauma team. They lauded his recovery, but expressed concern about the possibility of ongoing “mini strokes” as some post-accident MRI’s seem to indicate – but VA internal documentation doesn’t seem well enough organized for them to be sure what’s going on (problems in communication between “Alaska division” and “Portland division”, etc.). Arthur remains quite resistant to even the idea of the initial stroke, much less the idea of mini-strokes that don’t necessarily feel like or seem like what we normally think of as a stroke. So it all seems like just talk, at some level, if it’s not going to impact behavior or self-concept.
For dinner I went to my cousin’s son’s pub in Forest Grove and talked with my cousin and her husband for a few hours – mostly about what it means when one’s elders become senescent and you have to deal with that.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #333
Caveat: 눈왔다
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This tree is not feeling successful at meeting life’s challenges, but seems to be just barely hanging in there against all odds.
[daily log: walking, 5km]
Caveat: Tree #329
We drove into the Portland VA this morning for a specialist appointment for Arthur. It was like “old times,” when Juli and I drove in there so regularly last summer.
Here is a tree.
[daily log: walking, 4km]
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This tree is behind Juli and Keith’s camper-trailer, which is where I’m staying as a kind of guest room.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km]
Caveat: Tree #325
I confess that despite being on this Thanksgiving holiday trip and staying at Juli and Keith’s, I remain somewhat under the weather. So I’ve been pretty low-productivity.
Here is a tree (or several) from a walk up to the tree farm.
[daily log: walking, 4km]
Caveat: Tree #324
Being at Juli and Keith’s here in Oregon, of course we took a walk up to the tree farm. There are trees to be seen.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]