{"id":41969,"date":"2026-06-30T02:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=41969"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:13:13","slug":"june-finis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/06\/june-finis\/","title":{"rendered":"June <em>finis<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so, June did expire, but not before, with its last breath, producing an abstract. It shouldn&#8217;t have made the effort, really&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I find myself woefully unprepared for the month end, and can offer only an archival image &#8211; at least, in the truer sense of the word, &#8220;abstract.&#8221; I stumbled across this earlier this month, kinda liked it, and set it aside in case I, you know, failed to produce anything better. I <em>know<\/em>, right? It is to laugh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BlueReflections.jpg\" alt=\"hazy sun reflected in water with leaves\" width=\"750\" height=\"1049\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41970\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>It works, at least, and I need to be concentrating on approaches of this nature, since that was the whole point of making this a monthly thing. Actually, the whole point was finding a curious coincidence and deciding to run with it, though we can see how well I run.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is just the reflection of a hazy sun and overhanging branches in the water&#8217;s surface, taken seven years ago. It&#8217;s certainly better than what I have to offer from this month<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PoorShowing.jpg\" alt=\"bizarre shaded image of spring peeper Pseudacris crucifer on far side of tinted glass\" width=\"750\" height=\"686\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41971\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>No, don&#8217;t send me links to Merriam-Webster, I know what &#8220;abstract&#8221; means<strong>;<\/strong> this is just what I produced recently while attempting something else. Bizarre, but in a far more creepy way.<\/p>\n<p>However, fear not! I have a lot more images I&#8217;d like to get up today, but also some other things planned, so we&#8217;ll see if I get to them, while I may have the opportunity to produce a better abstract too &#8211; shouldn&#8217;t be hard, really. Day ain&#8217;t over yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so, June did expire, but not before, with its last breath, producing an abstract. It shouldn&#8217;t have made the effort, really&#8230; I find myself woefully unprepared for the month end, and can offer only an archival image &#8211; at least, in the truer sense of the word, &#8220;abstract.&#8221; I stumbled across this earlier this [&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":[1529,8759,7887,1670,2877],"class_list":["post-41969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-creepy","tag-pseudacris-crucifer","tag-reflections","tag-spring-peeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41969","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=41969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41973,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41969\/revisions\/41973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}