{"id":573891729,"date":"2019-10-31T23:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T03:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891729"},"modified":"2019-11-01T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:53:53","slug":"this-week-we-show-color-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/this-week-we-show-color-3\/","title":{"rendered":"This week we show color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Halloween, this fall dressed as winter. It snowed today. Pretty much all afternoon and into the night. The Yankee, who says this is the earliest she&#8217;s ever been snowed on, is ready to plan spring break. Embrace the pain of the cold and the wind. There&#8217;s five months to go. Five months of this. <\/p>\n<p>Where I&#8217;m from, those monster masks were too hot to wear on Halloween. Tonight was one of those never-warm-enough nights. Five more months of this.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, more foliage! We must enjoy them while we can. That&#8217;s what this week is about around here. After the wind and this cold snap, they&#8217;ll likely all be scurrying across the ground by the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>All of these are on campus which is, to be sure, quite beautiful during the leaf turn.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct85.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct86.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct87.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Twigs are less beautiful. Oh, sure, they are important. Those leaves don&#8217;t just hang there. They don&#8217;t pull the nutrients out of the very air. They just don&#8217;t put on the same show as the leaves, no matter their color of the moment. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct88.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll have a long time to enjoy those poking up into the air. It isn&#8217;t the winter or the cold or even the snow or really the grey skies, you understand. OK, it is a little the grey skies. The immutable grey skies are a part of it. But the cold and the wind and the snow all have their place. I guess. And I can stay inside to avoid most of that, like a reasonable human being. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct89.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that we won&#8217;t see any signs of spring until the first week of April. The sheer necessary endurance aspect of it all. Knowing that, sometimes just after Valentine&#8217;s Day I should see green things emerging, but instead, it&#8217;s another two months of twigs. That&#8217;s the unembraceable challenge. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct19\/oct90.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now if I had a spring break every month or so, some place warm, or, heck, even mild. That&#8217;d be OK. Alas.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, happy Halloween, and happy winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Halloween, this fall dressed as winter. It snowed today. Pretty much all afternoon and into the night. The Yankee, who says this is the earliest she&#8217;s ever been snowed on, is ready to plan spring break. Embrace the pain of the cold and the wind. There&#8217;s five months to go. Five months of this. 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