{"id":4883,"date":"2017-12-15T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2017-12-14T12:47:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:47:41","slug":"morning-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/thought-about\/morning-walks\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a night owl. I appreciate the cool night air and appreciate the night&#8217;s symphony of insects, sirens and trees swaying. I&#8217;ve loved the night for as long as I can remember but I have a new love. Mornings.<\/p>\n<p>Not early mornings. I am not rising with the roosters and greetings the earth before the sun rises. I have a work schedule the begins at 10am so I have used the time where I&#8217;d normally be getting up and ready for work to go on walks. I&#8217;m grateful to live within a few minute drive of a wonderful park with a huge lake. I&#8217;ve started walking the trails in the morning. Sometimes armed with a camera, headphones and an audio book. Other times just the camera and the sounds of nature around me and the city in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Every morning I walk the trails I&#8217;m delighted by what I find. The small gifts nature provides if you&#8217;re aware and looking for them. I saw a huge black spider sitting on a tree near where I stopped to marvel at the web of another arachnid. It darted away into the tree trunk and the safety of its web before I was able to take its picture. But I did get some of another one sitting on its web. Waiting for a meal.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Needwood-Spider.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"Spider web near Lake Needwood.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One morning I was greeted by a large bird and two turtles sunning themselves on a log at the water&#8217;s edge. I was able to creep down the hill and get a couple of pictures before the turtles wised up and scurried off, disappearing with twin splashes. The bird (an egret? a heron? I can never remember.) decided to give me a few more steps before taking off for an inaccessible shoreline.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Needwood-Bees.jpg?w=629\" alt=\"Bees sitting on a thistle flower.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a night owl. I appreciate the cool night air and appreciate the night&#8217;s symphony of insects, sirens and trees swaying. I&#8217;ve loved the night for as long as I can remember but I have a new love. Mornings. Not early mornings. I am not rising with the roosters and greetings the earth before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - Morning Walks","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105],"tags":[1195,1196,1197],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thought-about","tag-morning-walks","tag-nature","tag-outdoors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Needwood-TurtleBird.jpg?fit=1706%2C866&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}