{"id":16576,"date":"2015-05-11T02:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=16576"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T18:56:02","slug":"monday-color-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/05\/monday-color-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday color 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/C04-Camotree.jpg\" alt=\"Amercian sycamore Platanus occidentalis bark with autumn leaf\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/C04-Camotree.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/C04-Camotree-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>It took me a while to determine what this tree is, even though it resides in our backyard (the former owners didn&#8217;t provide a tree legend, if you can imagine that.) It&#8217;s an American sycamore, <em>Platanus occidentalis<\/em>. Though the background doesn&#8217;t really give that impression, this was taken on a rainy day in the fall, when the rain had brought out the curious coloration of the bark sharply &#8211; I won&#8217;t swear that&#8217;s one of its own leaves hanging off the flaking bark, but it looks about right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve suggested to The Girlfriend that she use the copious bark flakes from this tree in some artistic project &#8211; they&#8217;re almost like thin cardboard in nature, with a wide variety of colors, and are easily gathered from the ground beneath the tree.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about the color of this image is, it&#8217;s only the small bright patches on the trunk and the leaf, contrasting against the immediate surroundings, that make it seem &#8216;vivid&#8217; &#8211; take them out and the impression of color drops off.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a while to determine what this tree is, even though it resides in our backyard (the former owners didn&#8217;t provide a tree legend, if you can imagine that.) It&#8217;s an American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis. Though the background doesn&#8217;t really give that impression, this was taken on a rainy day in the fall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903],"tags":[2892,2894,2896,2895,2893],"class_list":["post-16576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","tag-american-sycamore","tag-camouflage-bark","tag-exfoliating-bark","tag-peeling-bark","tag-platanus-occidentalis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}