SEP 10, 23 .. THANK YOU EVA .. TODAY'S GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

Eva is a neighbor and a friend who lives in our building. Eva has been an active Guest Contributor on dotnet, our other website. 

Last month Eva, and a friend, rented a cottage for a few weeks in the small town of Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Eva graciously allowed us to post some of the photos she and her friend took during their stay.

If you are like Patti and me, you don't know much about Qualicum Beach.

Guess where "we turn" for more information? Wikipedia and the Internet!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualicum_Beach

https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwTq8wTTNg9OIrLE3MyUwuzVVISk1MzgAAcU8IuQ&q=qualicum+beach&rlz=1C1EKKP_enUS712US712&oq=Qualicum&aqs=chrome.1.0i355i433i512j46i433i512j69i57j46i175i199i512i664i665j46i175i199i512j46i512j0i512j69i60.13621j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Here we go, off to visit Qualicum Beach, BC.

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Hello Eva! Thank You for being our guest contributor.

Eva with her friend.

Eva called it their "cottage"! 

Man O Manischewitz Eva! What a "cottage"!

Man O Manischewitz! What scenery Eva!

Some wildlife on the island. Hello Bambi!

We will close with some photos of sunsets.

What a wonderful treat Eva. Thank You so very much.

Cap and Patti and all of our followers.

SEP 3, 23 .. THANK YOU .. TIM Mc BRIDE .. TODAY'S GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

Our friend and Ally, Tim McBride, visited us here in Anchorage last August the 1st. I published a Post about our visit on dotnet. You have probably read it BUT, just in case you want to check it out again, click onto the below link. 

https://babakaps.net/?p=54267

Tim and myself. Patti took the photos.

Tim sent me the below, five very nice wildlife photos, that he took on his way home from Alaska to Michigan.

Mother with her calf. Please don't ask me what her species is! Just look at her and her calf's eyes.

Thanks so very much Tim!

Short but hopefully sweet.

Cap and Patti

SEP 2, 23 (2/2) .. TREES ARE LIVING ENTITIES .. CREATED BY THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE

 

This is Part 2 of a 2 Part series of Posts showing the effect some recent strong winds here in Anchorage had upon two neighborhood trees.

Part 1 follows this Post. If you have not seen Part 1, you may review it by clicking onto the below link, or by simply continuing to scroll down at the end of this Post.

https://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2023/09/sep-2-23-trees-are-living-entities.html

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The Birch Tree immediately outside of our Condominium was not the only one affected by our recent strong winds here in Anchorage.

The below photos show a larger Evergreen Tree that was also blown down in our immediate neighborhood.

Wow huh? This was a much larger and healthier tree than our Birch Tree!

This Evergreen snapped cleanly and well above the ground! Our Birch Tree failed, in part, because it had rotted at its base.

A much larger mess than our tree created!

In the below photo, notice a white sign on the tall stump.

I have absolutely no idea of what the meaning of the sign is!

We will return to the sign two photos below.

Looking back the other way.

Voila! All cleaned up!

The landscape crew did not adhere to the wishes of whoever placed the above sign on the tall stump!

There you have it. The tale of two neighborhood trees that were recently blown down by some high winds here in Anchorage.

Cap and Patti

SEP 2, 23 (1/2) .. TREES ARE LIVING ENTITIES .. CREATED BY THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE

 Very Good Captain? Now where do we go?

What is an entity? An entity is a thing with distinct and independent existence. That sure fits!

If trees truly are living entities, do they communicate with one another? Do they have friends? 

Enough of walking down that "path" that has absolutely no answers!

Here we go!

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As Patti and I sit in our front room, we look out at the below scene, one you all have seen for many years now.

I know! O.K. go pick yourselves up! Yes indeed, we had a sunny day!

The other morning, when I looked out, I could not believe what I saw! Look at the left edge of the below photo.

During the night, a Birch Tree, one of our "Tree Friends", without a sound, passed away as a result of some very strong winds that have been visiting us the past few days!

The below photos are close up views of where the poor tree broke off. They show the right end of the tree in the above photo.

You can certainly see that the poor tree "rotted" away at its base! Several years ago, a stolen car on the run, drove into the tree and Patti feels that this caused its eventual demise!

Looking back at the top of the tree.

We never heard one sound of a work crew with chain saws removing the tree! I wanted to do a photo shoot of that and totally missed the event.

Patti and I feel like we "lost a friend"!

Goodbye to our friend tree that has been here since Patti moved in 33+ years ago!

Cap and Patti