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.
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.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]