{"id":573893584,"date":"2021-09-27T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T20:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893584"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T21:59:05","slug":"573893584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/09\/27\/573893584\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting outside for the textures of the evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday. Beautiful fall weather all day, or so I heard. I spent it &#8216;neath the fluorescent lights. <\/p>\n<p>Fall has a weird transcendent quality to it. <em>I should get out there and enjoy this. Because winter is coming and you <strong>know<\/strong> what that&#8217;s like. But I have things I need to do inside. So I&#8217;ll get to it tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow! Good idea! Tomorrow! It&#8217;ll be beautiful out there, then, too.<\/em> But it&#8217;s never long enough.<\/p>\n<p>Because winter is always looming just out there, somewhere. Waiting to arrive, unwelcome, a few days too early and determined to leave much too late.<\/p>\n<p>The signals aren&#8217;t much help, either. There&#8217;s a saying about corn, knee high by July. But there&#8217;s not a saying  that says &#8220;How in the world did that happen? It&#8217;s just the first of September?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept44.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And sure, it signals fall, but that just foreshadows winter. It&#8217;s impossible to shake. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, saw that corn field on my Saturday bike ride, near the end, after I&#8217;d given up. At least my shadow had a good ride.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept43.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And he should! He never does any of the work on the bike. He just lets me pull him along, shadowy wheelsucker that he is.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerreeds.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When I got in for the evening I took a walk in the woods. Something about having to spell the word fluorescent seemed to require it. Let&#8217;s take a look at a bit of nature.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2AggNujgOA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is just down stream from where I found that leaf. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept47.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And if you were standing roughly there and wisely looked in all directions, you would eventually find yourself looking up. And you would be justly rewarded.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept48.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But when you turned back around and saw the light cast by the sun skating away, you&#8217;d get another beautiful glimpse that made wading through the underbrush worthwhile. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept49.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I am not a botanist, which is a statement that should be plain and obvious every time I put a picture of a plant here. And because of this, each time I see this plant, I want to say it is something else. This week we&#8217;re calling it milkweed.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept50.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Look at the bark on this tree. How beautiful is this? <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept51.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Same tree, just below eye level. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept52.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And just below that, and slightly around to the side, there&#8217;s this sign of a limb removal. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept53.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty low on the tree, and that looks as if it was a big branch. Maybe kids climbed on it. Maybe it just got in the way.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerreeds.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And since it&#8217;s a beautiful autumn Monday, it is time to check in with the kitties. <\/p>\n<p>Phoebe is happy with the changing weather. She&#8217;s lately getting more snuggly and it has not escaped her attention that blanket season is upon us once more.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept45.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She likes blanket season.<\/p>\n<p>Poseidon is a cat for all seasons. I believe he was upstairs soaking up some window sunshine before I interrupted him here. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept46.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He would like you to know you interrupted him. And he wants to know why. It&#8217;s a fair question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday. Beautiful fall weather all day, or so I heard. I spent it &#8216;neath the fluorescent lights. Fall has a weird transcendent quality to it. I should get out there and enjoy this. Because winter is coming and you know what that&#8217;s like. But I have things I need to do inside. 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