{"id":37450,"date":"2024-08-29T00:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37450"},"modified":"2024-08-29T00:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:26:01","slug":"its-always-the-ponds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/08\/its-always-the-ponds\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s always the ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ProblemPond.jpg\" alt=\"pond featured in the holiday\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37452\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>There was <em>supposed<\/em> to be a different holiday in here today, but we can only have one holiday per day, according to the International Rules of Blog Holidays, and we&#8217;re forced to go with this one, which is nowhere near as much fun. I&#8217;m talking about <strong>Don&#8217;t Make The Big Change You Were Planning To Make Because Of A Pond Day<\/strong>&#8230; which, now that I think about it, can actually apply in two ways, and they&#8217;re both correct in this case. Kinda.<\/p>\n<p>You are no doubt looking for an explanation of this, and you&#8217;re just going to have to keep looking on your own. Or wait for a little while, because it will become clear before next month is out &#8211; all in due time, as they say, just to be annoying because such calls for patience are never greeted with enthusiasm. &#8220;Oh, boy, I have to temper my excitement for an undisclosed period of time until Al stops being mysterious? I can&#8217;t wai-  oh. I guess I&#8217;m gonna have to. But fuck you Al.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s the pond in question up there, though in and of itself, it&#8217;s innocent, or at least its guilt cannot be established to a reasonable extent. It&#8217;s cool, it&#8217;s cool &#8211; this will all be resolved in a bit, and then we can can go into some nice new stuff here.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a stray image from an outing this past weekend, of which more images will be along when I get the chance to write them up better, perhaps within the day. This is a partridge pea (<em>Chamaecrista fasciculata<\/em>,) which is fairly abundant at Mason Farm Biological Reserve but only occasionally seen elsewhere<strong>;<\/strong> the leaves bear a strong resemblance to mimosa trees, but that&#8217;s as far as the resemblance goes, since these are low bushes and the flowers are entirely different (mimosas are cooler.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/PeaDrops.jpg\" alt=\"flower and leaves of a partridge pea Chamaecrista fasciculata in Mason Farm Biological Reserve\" width=\"750\" height=\"1329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37454\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was supposed to be a different holiday in here today, but we can only have one holiday per day, according to the International Rules of Blog Holidays, and we&#8217;re forced to go with this one, which is nowhere near as much fun. I&#8217;m talking about Don&#8217;t Make The Big Change You Were Planning To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,12],"tags":[3105,7808,3303,3104,7809],"class_list":["post-37450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frustrations","category-random","tag-chamaecrista-fasciculata","tag-dont-make-the-big-change-you-were-planning-to-make-because-of-a-pond-day","tag-mason-farm-biological-reserve","tag-partridge-pea","tag-problem-ponds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450","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=37450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}