{"id":278,"date":"2011-12-04T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T15:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/?p=278"},"modified":"2015-07-28T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:24:51","slug":"i-miss-my-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"I Miss My Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been one of the busiest years in quite some time.\u00a0 Last year ended with my mother in the hospital\u00a0over Christmas but turning the page to 2011 brought only change after change.\u00a0 My older sister, best friend, photography compadre and all-around mentor, Nonda Surratt,\u00a0died quite suddenly at the end of March, and her passing was followed in short order by the death of my last cat, Gandalf, and one of my older and most underfoot educational animals, Franklin T. Squirrel.\u00a0 I also lost my entire team at work to downsizing so was put on the responsible person&#8217;s treadmill of\u00a0too-often 100-hour work weeks.\u00a0 All of which\u00a0left precious little time to look, let alone photograph.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t complain.\u00a0 The new roof that leaked every winter from the day it was installed was finally fixed so we are finally making plans to have all the interior damage repaired.\u00a0 I was able to order the parts for and fix my spiffy and equally overworked Fisher Paykel washing machine by myself.\u00a0 When a distracted driver plowed into the back of my Jeep while I was waiting to make a left-hand turn, neither\u00a0I, nor our educational groundhog in her carrier in the back, were more than badly\u00a0shaken and the repair shop has the Jeep looking like new again.\u00a0 And when my mom ended up in the emergency room again just before Thanksgiving, it turned out she&#8217;d been carting around a very\u00a0dead gallbladder for a while now\u00a0so its removal means she&#8217;s finally\u00a0on her way to a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Spending so much time indoors found me looking up when given\u00a0any opportunity to be outside for a moment.\u00a0 While there is no grand vista to be found where I live, we do experience all four seasons and the skies to match; often they have been quite spectacular and I found myself capturing\u00a0snippets of them.<\/p>\n<p>Summer storms:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garneredimages.com\/Daily-Photo-Archives\/Dailies-Q3-2011\/i-gMPpgHK\/0\/M\/CROPPED-DSC02891-O.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garneredimages.com\/Daily-Photo-Archives\/Dailies-Q3-2011\/i-gMPpgHK\/0\/L\/CROPPED-DSC02891-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garneredimages.com\/Daily-Photo-Archives\/Dailies-Q3-2011\/i-QgtFNHQ\/0\/L\/CROPPED-DSC0130-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mid-fall morning:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garneredimages.com\/Daily-Photo-Archives\/Dailies-Q4-2011\/i-92d92Tc\/0\/L\/CROPPED-DSC0161-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The inherent lesson is that there is really never only down; where there is down there is also always up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been one of the busiest years in quite some time.\u00a0 Last year ended with my mother in the hospital\u00a0over Christmas but turning the page to 2011 brought only change after change.\u00a0 My older sister, best friend, photography compadre and all-around mentor, Nonda Surratt,\u00a0died quite suddenly at the end of March, and her passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323,"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\/278"}],"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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squirreltale.com\/garneredimages\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}