{"id":1813,"date":"2005-12-28T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1813.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T20:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T19:54:44","slug":"snow-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/12\/28\/snow-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we didn&#8217;t get the snowstorms that the north of England has been enjoying (?) the last day or so, we got a dust of snow last night.  Today was cold enough that that dust didn&#8217;t go away.  I was out in it, getting some zippers for making sofa cushion covers, and believe me, it <em>was<\/em> cold.  (Yes, yes, for Edinburgh, a mild day for the arctic, or Toronto, but I&#8217;m a Californian and a wimp at that.)<\/p>\n<p>I took a walk through the Meadows, looking for things to photograph in the snow, but found more on the city streets.<\/p>\n<p>Cobbles on Buccleuch Street:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95689204\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/37\/95689204_cfdfeb3061.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 28 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leaf from an Edinburgh University courtyard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95992048\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/11\/95992048_6fc217a567.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 28 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ice crystals between the cobbles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95689326\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/12\/95689326_070e61bb1d.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 28 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But the richest venue for photographs turned out to be the walk back from the bus to my house, over the football pitch and beside the weedy path:<\/p>\n<p>Dead grass in the snow:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95692947\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/30\/95692947_9498f090d9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSC00263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 28 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Live grass in the snow:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95692913\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/21\/95692913_636a493d00.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSC00266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 28 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The blades corkscrew in the cold:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95992865\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/25\/95992865_f612fa1393.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 28 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Snow on the weeds:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evilrooster\/95689450\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/21\/95689450_9cc3d384c4.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Dsc00276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken 28 December 2005<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we didn&#8217;t get the snowstorms that the north of England has been enjoying (?) the last day or so, we got a dust of snow last night. Today was cold enough that that dust didn&#8217;t go away. I was out in it, getting some zippers for making sofa cushion covers, and believe me, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/12\/28\/snow-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snow Pictures<\/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":[1671,1670,1656,1654,1659],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edinburgh_a_love_letter","category-photography","tag-cobbles","tag-ice","tag-leaves","tag-macro","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}