{"id":35548,"date":"2023-10-31T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35548"},"modified":"2023-10-30T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T03:37:57","slug":"no-no-october-no-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/10\/no-no-october-no-home\/","title":{"rendered":"No, no, October no home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite seeing the car in the driveway and lights on upstairs, we&#8217;re told that October has left the premises, and so we have no choice but to dig out the end-of-month abstract images to placate us. And what might these be, you say? [That was your cue, go ahead &#8211; time is money, sweetheart.] Why, they look a little something like this<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Abs1023.jpg\" alt=\"leaves of unidentified tree turning golden in early autumn\" width=\"750\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35549\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I should probably know what this tree is, seeing as how it&#8217;s right off the back of Walkabout Estates &#8211; crepe myrtle? I dunno, something, we&#8217;re not here for the botany, but for the abstractedness, of which is has a bare modicum, just like the number of images that I shot this month. Yet I will admit, more are coming, though they&#8217;re not more abstract than this, sorry. I was thinking about it this month, but no inspiration was coming nor tableaux presenting themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we have another.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Abs10232.jpg\" alt=\"osprey Pandion haliaetus nest in twisted pine silhouetted against sunrise colors along Jordan Lake\" width=\"750\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35550\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Between the sunrise light and thinner needles from the drought, the osprey nest was quite visible in the tree after having been almost invisible all summer &#8211; not occupied at this time, of course, but I liked the mimicry of the &#8216;typical&#8217; African scene that always seems to pop up, at least in the states, though that&#8217;s generally an acacia tree on a plain and not a misshapen loblolly pine (<em>Pinus taeda<\/em>) on a lakeshore. This was as good as the sunrise colors got, too &#8211; well, maybe not, we&#8217;ll see in a short while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite seeing the car in the driveway and lights on upstairs, we&#8217;re told that October has left the premises, and so we have no choice but to dig out the end-of-month abstract images to placate us. And what might these be, you say? [That was your cue, go ahead &#8211; time is money, sweetheart.] Why, [&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":[326,2888,7416,7152,7417],"class_list":["post-35548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-autumn-colors","tag-leaves","tag-loblolly-pine","tag-osprey-nest","tag-pinus-taeda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548","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=35548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}