{"id":2662,"date":"2011-04-01T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2011-04-01T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:48:27","slug":"natures-art-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/04\/natures-art-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s Art Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If yesterday was a <a href=\"http:\/\/currierandives.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Currier and Ives<\/a> painting, today is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anseladams.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ansel Adams<\/a> photograph.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"April 1 beauty\" title=\"april-1-beauty\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-2-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual this time of year, yesterday morning&#8217;s thick, heavy, wet snow completely melted off the trees by mid-day.  <\/p>\n<p>Starting in the wee hours this morning a very light snow\/rain mix fell, providing a new coating, one that was painted with a light hand, not a heavy brush.  I couldn&#8217;t help but again seeing the beauty in it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"more April 1 beauty\" title=\"april-1-1\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/april-1-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually call artists to mind when I look out my window; these two mornings were simply spectacularly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/challenge-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/challenge-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"challenge-sm\" width=\"150\" height=\"26\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2548\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If yesterday was a Currier and Ives painting, today is an Ansel Adams photograph. <\/p>\n<p>As usual this time of year, yesterday morning&#8217;s thick, heavy, wet snow completely melted off the trees by mid-day. <\/p>\n<p>Starting in the wee hours this morning a very light snow\/rain mix fell, providing a new coating, one that was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}