{"id":1786,"date":"2005-12-05T22:34:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1786.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T21:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T20:20:27","slug":"rainy-day-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/12\/05\/rainy-day-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a damp and muddy Monday for a lunchtime ramble.  I was going to go to the Botanics to try to track down a <a href=\"http:\/\/193.62.154.38\/cgi-bin\/nph-readfile.pl\/parent=names\/filename=acc?23172429|retq=ETI%3DUmbellularia%2Bcalifornica|firstval=1|lino=1|nocount=|dataonly=|SID=453.1133822389\">California bay laurel<\/a> (the tree I miss most from California).  I stopped on the Rocheid Path to take some pictures and chat to a chance-met colleague, and never made it to the Botanics.<\/p>\n<p>Fallen leaf on mossy wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/96005798\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/11\/96005798_b2371de010.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 5 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Golden leaves and black stems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95965592\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/23\/95965592_98999d17f8.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 5 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what this wee plant is, but it&#8217;s cute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95693239\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/39\/95693239_f105e7e98f.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC00172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 5 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surprise!  We&#8217;re in the middle of a city!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95703419\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/40\/95703419_5b8d5f709f.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 5 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I know that not all of these pictures are worthy of Ansel Adams.  My camera is extremely limited in what it can do, and even with a good camera I can&#8217;t always capture what it is that I find beautiful.  I simply hope that the delight I felt in seeing these things comes through in the images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a damp and muddy Monday for a lunchtime ramble. I was going to go to the Botanics to try to track down a California bay laurel (the tree I miss most from California). I stopped on the Rocheid Path to take some pictures and chat to a chance-met colleague, and never made it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/12\/05\/rainy-day-walking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rainy Day Walking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,134],"tags":[1663,1656,1654],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edinburgh_a_love_letter","category-photography","tag-branches","tag-leaves","tag-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}