{"id":1823,"date":"2006-01-07T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1823.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T19:54:56","slug":"up-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/01\/07\/up-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Up the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the weekdays this winter have been really good (because of my desk lamp and my lunchtime walks), the weekends have been very difficult. This one has been no exception. Not only has the weather been overcast these last days, but Alex’ recent illness left him unwilling to toerate bright lights. I spent yesterday in a dim house, and by today it was starting to tell on me. I felt unfocussed, off-rhythm, and deeply depressed. I wanted to curl up in a corner and simply cease to exist for a while. (This does not mean I wanted to die. I simply didn’t want to exist.)<\/p>\n

Martin, saw me sitting by my light box, leaning my forehead on it like it was my only friend. So, though he was unwell, he sent me out of the house while Fiona napped and Alex played video games. I decided to do something energetic and definitive: I would climb Arthur’s Seat, and take some pictures on the way.<\/p>\n

So I did. There wasn’t a lot of light even out of doors, but what there was, I got. (I also took 75 pictures. Luckily for your bandwidth, dear reader, my usual 33-50% good photo ratio did not hold up! I was just short of 20%, partly because of the low light.)<\/p>\n

Photos of big stuff<\/h3>\n

My camera isn’t much on the big shots – I feel that it makes them all look like snapshots. (Or maybe I’m not a landscape photographer…) But I got a few wider-angle pictures that were special enough to post.<\/p>\n

On the way up, looking north.<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

The moon rose over the ridge as I left. (Note that this photo has been cropped)<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Coming down the hill, toward Newington.<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Rock shots<\/h3>\n

Stone from the wall by the Commonwealth Pool<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Fragmented rock at the summit<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Stone from the wall by the Pollock Halls<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Plant shots<\/h3>\n

A single thistle head in the grass<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Gorse blossoms<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Dead thistle heads.<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Gorse against the sky<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Bramble leaves<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Moss and dead grass<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Stone in the hillside<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Seed heads against the sky<\/p>\n

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Taken 7 January 2006<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although the weekdays this winter have been really good (because of my desk lamp and my lunchtime walks), the weekends have been very difficult. This one has been no exception. Not only has the weather been overcast these last days, but Alex’ recent illness left him unwilling to toerate bright lights. I spent yesterday in … Continue reading Up the Hill<\/span> →<\/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":[1683,1682,1680,1679,1656,1654,1681,1674,1610,1684],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edinburgh_a_love_letter","category-photography","tag-gorse","tag-grass","tag-hills","tag-holyrood-park","tag-leaves","tag-macro","tag-moon","tag-rocks","tag-sad","tag-thistles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}