{"id":19701,"date":"2016-12-16T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19701"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T03:58:09","slug":"friday-night-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/12\/friday-night-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SubtlePinkPillar.jpg\" alt=\"sunrise colors under clouds with faint sun pillar\" width=\"730\" height=\"1095\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19702\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The other morning as I was rushing out the door, the sky was displaying some rich and gorgeous colors, and there wasn&#8217;t a thing I could do about them. Well, there <em>was<\/em>, if I wanted to get fired, but sometimes you have to prioritize. As I was up early enough again this morning, I kept a close eye on sunrise, and was rewarded with some not-quite-as-gorgeous colors, so I present them for you before the day closes here.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve seen those dock pilings before, or if not, <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/07\/just-some-morning-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\">you have now<\/a> (the water was higher then.) But what&#8217;s also visible if you look closely is a faint sun pillar, a column of light reflected from high-altitude ice crystals, in this case pointing towards the not-yet-visible sun and framed in both the gap in the trees and the space between the pilings &#8211; again, just subtle positioning to improve the overall affect. When you have conditions like this, you need to move fast &#8211; they won&#8217;t last long. The photos I have span all of four minutes (I realize as I checked this that I haven&#8217;t updated the camera clock for Idiotic Daylight Saving Time,) and the color was already fading.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/08\/beach-trip-followup\/\" target=\"_blank\">done better<\/a> earlier this year, but it&#8217;s winter, or technically late fall, and I&#8217;m taking what I can get, at least until I get those plane tickets to Belize for christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other morning as I was rushing out the door, the sky was displaying some rich and gorgeous colors, and there wasn&#8217;t a thing I could do about them. Well, there was, if I wanted to get fired, but sometimes you have to prioritize. As I was up early enough again this morning, I kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3392,3648,1670,3647,349],"class_list":["post-19701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-colors","tag-hint-hint","tag-reflections","tag-sun-pillar","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701","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=19701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}