{"id":1143,"date":"2008-12-14T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:07:09","slug":"a-little-sunshine-on-a-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/12\/a-little-sunshine-on-a-sunday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"A little sunshine on a Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was clear &#8211; stars and the full moon lit our early morning &#8220;down the driveway&#8221; walk.  Despite being -6, with no wind and dressed for the occasion &#8211; it did not feel that cold.  I love moonlight shining through the woods and we had our usual dawdle back &#8211; me on the driveway and Karl on the east property perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>The sun rose and the temperature with it, climbing to near zero by 10 a.m..  I might have waited for a bit more warmth, but 10 is our usual morning walk time and Karl was pestering to go, so I suited up and off we went.  I took my smaller (and older!) camera, despite the temps, but it got too cold quickly.  I did get a couple shots before it refused to operate..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SunKarl500452.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"452\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 452px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SunMtn500380.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"380\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 380px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bit more snow on the mountains, but not as much as I expected to see. The Swan Range curves around to the north, close enough that my property was in a wind shadow for the cold wind that was blowing out of the North-Northeast.  Along a corridor through Columbia Falls and Kalispell, the weather info showed winds high enough to cause the wind chill to be in the -20&#8217;s.  But even on our walk there was not even a breeze high in the trees &#8211; it was quiet, sunny and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Karl and I played a little snow soccer when we got home.  I warmed up a bit inside and then went back out with camera and tripod to see if I could get a photo (quickly!) of Karl and I&#8230;. I call the procedure &#8220;the Karl and Ann rodeo&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SunStoryBoard.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"800\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 800px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a timer that will click off a number of shots after a delay, I not only got the story, but both of us almost facing the camera&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/SunAnnandKarl500513.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"513\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 513px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For my next trick, I will try to get the Ann, Karl and Bob Christmas photo&#8230;this usually takes the better part of a day and ends up with me needing a nap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was clear &#8211; stars and the full moon lit our early morning &#8220;down the driveway&#8221; walk. Despite being -6, with no wind and dressed for the occasion &#8211; it did not feel that cold. I love moonlight shining through the woods and we had our usual dawdle back &#8211; me on the driveway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-pets","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22203,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/22203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}