{"id":573887061,"date":"2014-11-02T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T01:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887061"},"modified":"2014-11-04T00:53:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:53:51","slug":"catching-up-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/catching-up-153\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post of extra pictures. There are always extras. There are extras still, but I shot these yesterday while running, they fit the season and the mood and the others can wait. On with it, then!<\/p>\n<p>This is Hummingbird Lake at Callaway Gardens. And I remembered the time I took my grandmother to Callaway to see the flowers when she visited me in college. Registering for this run or the countless times I&#8217;ve passed this exit or even getting there yesterday didn&#8217;t do it, but Hummingbird Lake made me think about that trip. Now there are just hummingbirds everywhere in my life. That&#8217;s starting to make me happy a little, but just about every other emotion is there too. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov06.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The next two shots are of Mountain Creek Lake, which is the largest body of water at Callaway. The Callaway family started digging this out in 1949. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov07.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov08.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bluebirds are an important part of the local wildlife, so naturally there&#8217;s a Bluebird Lake.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov09.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Most of the trees are pines &#8212; this is Pine Mountain, Georgia after all &#8212; but some of the deciduous leaves are starting to go. Here&#8217;s another example at Whippoorwill Lake. There&#8217;s a half-mile nature trail here, and ducks during the right season. There probably all gone south for the winter by now, I&#8217;d bet:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov10.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one last shot of Mountain Creek Lake, which is the largest body of water in the park. There&#8217;s a 1.5 mile unpaved trail around Mountain Creek that drops you down to the water&#8217;s edge where you can see turtles, ducks, herons, a richly diverse floral scene and scarred trunks marked up by beavers. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov11.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is part of the beach recreation area at Robin Lake, which, among other things, boasts the annual Masters Water Ski &#038; Wakeboard Tournament. I did not know there was such a thing, but next year they&#8217;ll have the 56th annual event tournament:  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov12.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Running the trail:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov14\/nov13.jpg\" alt=\"10K\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly post of extra pictures. There are always extras. There are extras still, but I shot these yesterday while running, they fit the season and the mood and the others can wait. On with it, then! This is Hummingbird Lake at Callaway Gardens. And I remembered the time I took my grandmother to Callaway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887061","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=573887061"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887069,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887061\/revisions\/573887069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}