{"id":668,"date":"2009-12-21T18:11:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2009-12-21T18:11:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:11:32","slug":"solstice-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Solstice mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-670\" title=\"haunt-in-garden026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/haunt-in-garden0261.jpg\" alt=\"haunt-in-garden026\" width=\"198\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/haunt-in-garden0261.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/haunt-in-garden0261-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s this???\u00a0 Looking out the window to the orchard, in the light of midWinter, this mysterious figure appeared.\u00a0\u00a0 We knew what it had to be, but it didn&#8217;t look like that&#8211;it looked like someone wearing a hooded habit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the stump of a peach tree.\u00a0\u00a0 Most times of the year it looks like a stump.\u00a0 Only the particular low slanting light near the Solstice brings out this view.<\/p>\n<p>Out in the front yard, one of the rusty blackhaw viburnums had fruit on its lower limbs and at the very top had this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-671\" title=\"soltice-viburnum031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/soltice-viburnum031.jpg\" alt=\"soltice-viburnum031\" width=\"312\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/soltice-viburnum031.jpg 312w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/soltice-viburnum031-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the creek woods (but it was too dark for a good picture) one of\u00a0 the young viburnums still has brilliantly red leaves, while the yard viburnums dropped theirs long ago.\u00a0 I did not expect viburnum flowers this time of year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7],"tags":[70,56],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-plantlife","tag-photography","tag-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}