{"id":140,"date":"2008-12-14T02:16:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T06:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogshevik.com\/garneredimages\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-12-14T02:16:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T06:16:36","slug":"the-12-days-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Days of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas
\nEverywhere you go….”
\n(Meredith Wilson)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Living where there are four distinct seasons is a delightful thing; so many things catch your eye when the light and landscape continually shift in the seamless,\u00a0effortless and circular annual pattern.\u00a0 Yet,\u00a0in these final days of fall, when the daylight hours decrease to what will be their smallest number of the natural year, the grey, dismal gloom\u00a0reaches its opposing peak\u00a0and, for one who prefers outdoor photography, such a gluttonous serving of morose monotony is discouraging; it is frustrating, and sometimes it is decidedly depressing.\u00a0 In this part of our fair state we tend to have far fewer replete-with-potential-for-magical-images\u00a0“White Christmases” than might be expected; indeed, it is more common to get a nice dump of snow early in the month and nothing else until January (unless you want to count the stereotypical ice storm that\u00a0accompanies most New Years Eve celebrations).\u00a0 This often leaves our small corner of the world barren, stark,\u00a0and rather dirty and forlorn by now and I find I am getting…well, yes, I hate to use the word but I am getting…bored<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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‘Tis such a pity, these dank, dreary days, for the hawks are active and, along with the winter contingent of songbirds,\u00a0very visible.\u00a0 And\u00a0though it is still good photographic exercise to get out there in the bracing chill (read: finger, toe, and mind-numbing cold) and\u00a0work at getting decent shots of them, grey after grey day yields little about which to write home.\u00a0 Let’s face it, one can only take so many morosely-lit photographs of squirrels, little birds,\u00a0and perched hawks.\u00a0 So while out driving the past few days, it occurred to me to\u00a0give my Self a photographic goal; to go after something a little\u00a0different in order to rekindle my creative fires\u00a0and push my limits at the same time.<\/p>\n

I’m making a list and I’m checking it twice.\u00a0\u00a0Gonna find my way to some very nice seasonal displays that continue to catch my eye in what I’ll refer to as “The 12 Days of Christmas” project.\u00a0 Of course right at this moment my list contains all of 5 such\u00a0places,\u00a0but a couple of them have the potential to be spectacular if we’d only get\u00a0one decent snowfall.\u00a0 I’m not entirely sure what I’ll do about the other 7 days, and maybe in the end there won’t be 12 after all, but as I always say, you only fail when you don’t even try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas Everywhere you go….” (Meredith Wilson) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Living where there are four distinct seasons is a delightful thing; so many things catch your eye when the light and landscape continually shift in the seamless,\u00a0effortless and circular annual pattern.\u00a0 Yet,\u00a0in these final days of fall, when the daylight hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}