{"id":144,"date":"2008-03-29T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/144"},"modified":"2009-05-31T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T02:21:35","slug":"a-day-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/a-day-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, late morning, I looked out the window and noticed snow falling on my rock garden&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gardensnow1.jpg\" alt=\"Garden - light snow\" \/><br \/>\nand here is what it looked like an hour later.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gardensnow2a.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t happen very often, so I decided to take my camera out with me while I ran a few errands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rbow1.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow\" class=\"floatright\" \/><em>Just 2 weeks ago\u00c2\u00a0it was raining, and I ignored my inner photographer when it said &#8211; ah, take the camera.\u00c2\u00a0 About a mile from my house I came upon the biggest, brightest rainbow I had ever seen&#8230;. I snapped this shot through my windshield with my phone (totally doesn&#8217;t do it justice), but if I&#8217;d had my camera with me I&#8217;d have a frameable pic.\u00c2\u00a0 But I digress&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I saw yesterday, all within a mile of my place&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Snow capped pansies and wetlands bathed in clouds and snowflakes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/revolving\/pansy1.jpg\" alt=\"Snow capped pansies\" style=\"width: 190px; height: 194px\" title=\"Snow capped pansies\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tundra.jpg\" alt=\"tundra.jpg\" style=\"width: 302px; height: 199px\" width=\"302\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pink trees lining the streets and hidden away between evergreens.\u00c2\u00a0 And the trees are just starting to bloom.\u00c2\u00a0 So many varieties &#8211; we&#8217;ll have trees in bloom into May. \u00c2\u00a0I love how long spring lasts here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/revolving\/pinktree.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pinktrees.jpg\" alt=\"Pink trrees\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And another wetland area.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me sad to see development come along and cut down so many big trees.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope this wetland area will stay preserved (including it&#8217;s backdrop of evergreens) for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/revolving\/wetlands_0083.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 300px\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowwoods.jpg\" alt=\"snowwoods.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By evening, all the snow had melted.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Today the sun is shining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, late morning, I looked out the window and noticed snow falling on my rock garden&#8230; and here is what it looked like an hour later. This doesn&#8217;t happen very often, so I decided to take my camera out with me while I ran a few errands. Just 2 weeks ago\u00c2\u00a0it was raining, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/a-day-in-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A day in pictures<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}