{"id":3398,"date":"2008-11-09T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2008-11-09T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T17:33:55","slug":"random-sunday-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/3398","title":{"rendered":"Random Sunday Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, no more flower pr0n until the spring. In fact, as I type, Michael is outside raking dead leaves over my flower beds (and also bagging any remaining dead leaves. I have to say that this is one chore I don&#8217;t mind getting out of, being as I&#8217;m sick. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s good exercise and all, as well as good preparation for shoveling snow, but I don&#8217;t particularly like it. So I&#8217;m more than delighted to do the laundry and then take a nap.)<\/p>\n<p>And as far as the leaves, it hardly seems fair that two trees could generate so many leaves. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3015543145\/\" title=\"Leaves_0002 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3225\/3015543145_a0b851476f.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Leaves_0002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is Michael raking the leaves from the silver maple over the flower beds at the bottom of the hill. There is a distinct, visible difference between the silver maple and sugar maple leaves. The silver maple leaves are crunched up, brown, and pathetic looking. The sugar maple&#8217;s leaves are yellowish brown and slightly curled.<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess which tree I prefer?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3016385058\/\" title=\"Leaves_0003 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3238\/3016385058_2e6a3d240f.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Leaves_0003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is our side yard, which is dominated by the sugar maple. It dropped a lot of leaves. I&#8217;m guessing that after covering my flower beds Michael will probably have around ten bags to put out. (No, our area doesn&#8217;t have a special leaf pick up.)<\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3016391002\/\" title=\"sunset_0001 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3241\/3016391002_a5460feeac.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"sunset_0001\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3016394834\/\" title=\"sunset_0002 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3162\/3016394834_c68b390e60.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"sunset_0002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a beautiful sunset Tuesday night. Twas the start of a beautiful evening I must say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, no more flower pr0n until the spring. In fact, as I type, Michael is outside raking dead leaves over my flower beds (and also bagging any remaining dead leaves. I have to say that this is one chore I don&#8217;t mind getting out of, being as I&#8217;m sick. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s good exercise and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[226,227,228],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-garden","category-photos","tag-dead-leaves","tag-sunsets","tag-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-SO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}