{"id":573880658,"date":"2010-10-13T23:01:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880658"},"modified":"2010-10-18T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T06:35:30","slug":"the-unrecorded-beauty-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/the-unrecorded-beauty-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The unrecorded beauty of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct10\/oct43.jpg\" alt=\"Autumn\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Fall is the most stubborn season to capture, no matter the medium. A photograph won&#8217;t do, because there&#8217;s never a wide enough lens or a narrow enough aperture. There&#8217;s no video that really brings home the feeling or the sound of the leaves. No device gives you the feel of the breeze, or the smell in the air.<\/p>\n<p>But the leaves are finally letting go, at least some on some of the ornamental trees, like this one in Hoover. I was picking up photo displays for our department&#8217;s Wall of Fame when I found that tree. Also ordered the plaques today, too. <\/p>\n<p>It was a good day, but it could always be better. I&#8217;d like to get more work done, but I managed a lot of reading and organizing and printing of things. The inboxes are mostly full. There&#8217;s some writing to do, yet. I&#8217;ve planned out my tomorrow. I&#8217;ve caught up on the news of the day. <\/p>\n<p>And it was a beautiful day. Really, my only complaint is not having a tool in my backpack that adequately expresses autumn. And, also, I didn&#8217;t take enough pictures or scan anything today. Next week, then. <\/p>\n<p>No great stories to tell for the day, though. I visited the world&#8217;s largest Target today &#8212; and I don&#8217;t feel any different. Bought two shadowboxes. I had lunch at <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beefobradys.com\/\">Beef O&#8217;Brady&#8217;s<\/a>, a place of which I&#8217;d never heard. But I saw the sign and a cheeseburger sounded good. The Urban Spoon app on the iPhone convinced me it was worth a try. And the sandwich was tasty.<\/p>\n<p>Not a lot for the site, either, but there are three more entries in the World&#8217;s Fair section. You can see those in the entry below. For now I&#8217;ll leave you with three examples of the victory of <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/highschool\/blog\/prep_rally\/post\/Arkansas-player-with-cerebral-palsy-scores-in-wh?urn=highschool-276166\">youth<\/a>, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/highschool\/blog\/prep_rally\/post\/Down-syndrome-football-player-scores-TD-in-Washi?urn=highschool-272803\">sportsmanship<\/a> and <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/highschool\/blog\/prep_rally\/post\/Wisconsin-player-with-special-needs-scores-heart?urn=highschool-273892\">humility<\/a>.  You might think all of those as cheesy constructs, but those links are worthy of your attention. <\/p>\n<p>And now I must turn my attention elsewhere. But I&#8217;ll be back here tomorrow, with more tales old and new, no doubt. See you then. And enjoy your local version of fall. Soak it in, in person, before it disappears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is the most stubborn season to capture, no matter the medium. A photograph won&#8217;t do, because there&#8217;s never a wide enough lens or a narrow enough aperture. There&#8217;s no video that really brings home the feeling or the sound of the leaves. No device gives you the feel of the breeze, or the smell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573880658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-photo","category-samford","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573880658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573880659,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573880658\/revisions\/573880659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573880658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573880658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573880658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}