Category: My Photos

Caveat: Tree #1740 “Still surviving”

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This tree is my small cherry tree that nearly died in the deerpocalypse last year. This year, safe in its little cage, it seems to have done fine, but it’s strange how the leaves seem uninterested in changing color in the Fall.

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Caveat: Tree #1738 “Kerosene in the garden”

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This tree was in the background while I performed a standard daily cold-weather chore: filling the little kerosene tank for the basement heater from the big red kerosene tank in Arthur’s mushroom-and-moss garden (front yard).

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Caveat: Tree #1735 “Not actually snow”

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This tree was next to a patch of frost so heavy it looked like fallen snow.

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In the morning I went to town and worked on some bookkeeping stuff at the store and sorted out a bureaucratic mess at the Power and Telephone office.

This afternoon I finally got around to building a little insulated enclosure “cabinet” for the new water filters configuration for the re-engineered house water filters set-up I built last summer. This enclosure is important because down in the boathouse (basement) it can get quite cold in winter – it’s not an insulated part of the house. So with the filter assembly positioned where it is, I wanted to enclose them in a little cabinet with insulation in it where we could place a small heater to make sure things don’t freeze up on extremely cold days.

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Caveat: Tree #1730 “Frost and leaks”

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This tree saw the first frost of the season, on the hood of the blueberry (Chevy Tahoe).

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I had a truly horrible day. It was all because of plumbing. I had a small leak in the well-house (on lot 73) which had come to light when Richard did all the installation in August. I’d been procrastinating on it, but I hoped it would be fairly easy to fix – the first frosty morning of the Fall inspired me to get busy with it. So I went to fix it. Somehow it was a kind of chain reaction – trying to fix the one leak led to the appearance of another leak. I would guess it’s related to putting strain on the manifold of pipes in the well-house. Soon I had several leaks. The whole manifold needs to be rebuilt. I am not a plumber. I shoveled dirt for a while (filling in the hole Richard left by the well), expressing my frustration, but there is still much dirt to shovel.

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Caveat: Tree #1726 “The fruits of autumn”

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This tree is the tallest tree on lot 73. If the sun comes out in the next week or two (that’s asking something unreasonable, to be sure), I’ll get to watch the midday autumn sun’s illumination retreat up this tree over several days and then disappear off the top, as the sun undertakes to hide for the next four months behind the mountain – that is winter’s shadow.

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My greenhouse produced this cherry-sized tomato, below – I’m not even sure why. I had a tomato plant. It struggled, as tomato plants do, here – even in greenhouses. This is the sole output of my tomato plant – a desultory nod toward tomatic destiny.

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Caveat: Tree #1725 “Identifying the season”

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / Language & Linguistics / My Garden / My Photos

This tree is the pussy-willow tree I (trans-)planted last year. It seems to have figured out when Fall is.

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A customer came in the store, with her child. The woman was speaking Haida with the child. This is what you do when you’re trying to help a child develop some bilingualism – it’s an attempt at some immersion. When she bought her products and was checking out, she said (I’m pretty sure) “Háw’aa” which means thank you. That was the first time I’ve had a customer speaking Haida in the store. The language is close to extinct, but there are strong community efforts being made to resurrect it. I told the woman I thought she was doing a wonderful thing.

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Caveat: Tree #1724 “Ancient proof of trees’ existence”

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This tree is a guest tree from my past. It’s hard to say which tree I’m talking about – just pick one. I took this picture near my hometown (Arcata, California) in Spring of 1983. This was on film, of course. I scanned the picture in July of 2011.

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This might be the oldest photograph I still have that I took myself. My uncle Arthur had given me a hand-me-down Pentax camera at some point during my senior year in high school. I wasn’t interested in photographing people at all. I went out and took pictures of buildings and nature and such. The picture above was taken above Kneeland, an area east of Eureka. Most of those pictures somehow didn’t make it through the subsequent years, but this one made it through until I went on a binge of scanning old photos in 2011 – I think I’d recently acquired a flatbed scanner again after not having one for many years, and I had unearthed a box of old photos somehow, and the two felicitously collided.

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Caveat: Tree #1721 “Trees or ditches”

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This tree saw some clouds in the morning, but fewer clouds than yesterday.

Some trees with some clouds above, shaded pink and gold by morning sun

After working at the store for a bit in the morning, I drove around running errands (buying gas, which requires a special drive over to Klawock, since Craig has no gas station these days). Then I came home and since it wasn’t raining, I worked outside, on that “last six feet” of my electrical conduit on lot 73, at the top of the driveway, connecting to the little well-house there. It was brutal work, but I exposed the previous conduit (a stub I’d put in 3 years ago, determined now to be the wrong size), pulled it out, and put in a new piece of larger-diameter conduit. I now need to expose the water pipe because there’s a rather bad leak on connector to the down-the-hill line of water pipe – I never was able to test the water pipe before, since it’d just been a stub, but when Richard helped install all the downstream faucets and connectors back in August, I had a chance to test it all, and sadly, there was a leak at the uphill end of everything. So that can be a project for the next few days – when it’s not raining again next.

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Caveat: Tree #1715 “The tree that fell down”

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / Life in Alaska / My Photos

This tree is a guest tree from my past. It is a tree that fell across the road between Coffman Cove and Thorne Bay, about 40 miles northeast of here. I photographed the tree in October, 2009. I wonder if I’ve posted this picture as a daily tree, before, but I can’t find it if I have.

A tree fallen across a gravel road, at an angle and somewhat cleared so it is possible to drive underneath

I did a lot of work around the house today – it’s the first day I haven’t gone into work over two weeks – since the big transition to ownership (mentioned in last blog post). I did work on winterizing the plumbing repairs I did earlier this past summer on where the water comes into the house at the west side of the boat shed (basement). I helped neighbor Brandt with his sheetrocking efforts in his new laundry shed. I made a giant batch of spaghetti sauce to eat as leftovers for the coming week.

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Caveat: Tree #1709 “Moments past”

A Daily Tree / Life in Korea / My Photos

This tree is yet another guest tree from my past (can you tell I’ve been really busy, and not taking pictures of photogenic trees around me, lately?). I took this picture in November, 2017, from my apartment window in Goyang City, South Korea. I guess I mean the tree that is down in the sidewalk in front of the building opposite on the right, the building with all the advertising on it. It was a tree I walked by frequently, in many years in that neighborhood.

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I had weird, intense dreams of my job at Aramark, last night. I was reviewing complex data structures and dissecting very baroque invoices which the company sent to customers, looking for errors.

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