{"id":895,"date":"2021-09-12T18:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T23:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2021-09-12T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:54:09","slug":"fields-woods-and-a-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/12\/fields-woods-and-a-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fields, woods, and a Vulture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to put this one in, the other day.\u00a0\u00a0 In my own nomenclature, this is Mama Undertaker who is quite concerned about the human taking pictures of her family, peering around at me with a very suspicious expression.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-896\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Black-vulture-parentpeeks-LT-9-9-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Black-vulture-parentpeeks-LT-9-9-2021.jpg 450w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Black-vulture-parentpeeks-LT-9-9-2021-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, we&#8217;ve been down to and through the woods (I went only partway\u00a0 from E to W, but then on up to the Entrance Meadow on the east side of the creek woods) and though I don&#8217;t have All the Pictures cropped and resized, I do have some.<\/p>\n<p>Remember those sedge pictures?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s one of the clumps of it in &#8220;the swamp&#8221; (dried up now, but the ground still damp):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-897\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cyperus-sp.-sedge-other-wetground.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cyperus-sp.-sedge-other-wetground.jpg 440w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cyperus-sp.-sedge-other-wetground-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-900\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cyperus-sp-sedge-S-fence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cyperus-sp-sedge-S-fence.jpg 450w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Cyperus-sp-sedge-S-fence-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s melonette, a delicate looking little vine that produces tiny green and cream-marked &#8220;melons&#8221; not quite as big as the last joint of my thumb (no melons now, though).\u00a0 This one&#8217;s growing in the overflow channel from the latest rain; the ground was muddy two days ago and still very soft yesterday.\u00a0 I put the date wrong on the file; it was taken yesterday, NOT in 2001.\u00a0 And suddenly my system&#8217;s gone cranky.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to add the other pics in an editing session later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-898 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Melonette-creek-woods-9-11-2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Melonette-creek-woods-9-11-2001.jpg 373w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Melonette-creek-woods-9-11-2001-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to put this one in, the other day.\u00a0\u00a0 In my own nomenclature, this is Mama Undertaker who is quite concerned about the human taking pictures of her family, peering around at me with a very suspicious expression. Over the past few days, we&#8217;ve been down to and through the woods (I went only <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/12\/fields-woods-and-a-vulture\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,16],"tags":[17,51,24],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-80-acres","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-nature","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}