{"id":573894849,"date":"2022-10-07T23:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894849"},"modified":"2022-10-07T23:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:11:35","slug":"the-shades-beneath-the-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/the-shades-beneath-the-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"The shades beneath the shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I set out to the explore the world and never made it beyond my back yard.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That, or something like that, I might be mis-paraphrasing by memory, was the signature file someone used in a photography Usenet that I once subscribed to. I&#8217;m not sure where the quote originated as of this writing, because none of the most likely variations brings up the original. But it strikes me, today, as a sentiment I probably didn&#8217;t understand then, but appreciate a little better today. Particularly after these few minutes in the back yard this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The woods are starting to get their autumnal glow.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct39.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Closer to the ground, the Joe Pye weed is doing it&#8217;s thing.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct40.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three different versions of the same weed within two steps of one another.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct41.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct42.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct43.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Everything out here looks tired. Tired of the summer, or already tired of fall, who can say?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct44.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Right about the time I noticed the pink smartweed, I started kicking myself for not bringing a macro lens outside.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct45.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct46.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s check on the maple. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct47.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It seems like all the green leaves are facing south. I wonder why that is. I do enjoy the red petiole on that tree, though.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct48.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oh, look, the sun is peaking through.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct22\/oct49.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerleeks.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My contribution to the cause today was this. I supervised the production of four TV shows. I supported two live events. I had two production meetings and four other less eventful meetings.<\/p>\n<p>That was enough. I now feel I can stride into the weekend with a good conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I set out to the explore the world and never made it beyond my back yard.&#8221; That, or something like that, I might be mis-paraphrasing by memory, was the signature file someone used in a photography Usenet that I once subscribed to. I&#8217;m not sure where the quote originated as of this writing, because none [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,73,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573894849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-iphone","category-iu","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573894849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573894850,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894849\/revisions\/573894850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573894849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573894849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573894849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}