{"id":1967,"date":"2009-02-25T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:12:29","slug":"its-not-always-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/02\/its-not-always-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not always pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not always pretty from the front porch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb09\/PrettySeries6401350.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"1350\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 1350px\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has been above freezing for several days and nights.  The snow is melting and shrinking but what is left is a slushy, puddly, icy mess.  The snow is covered with pine needles and sticks.  It is not pretty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb09\/PrettyBob640527.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"527\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 527px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob ventured out to see what he could see.  He didn&#8217;t notice his reflection.  He was too busy looking for bubbles. (<a target=\"Bob and Bubbles\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/2008\/11\/08\/about-bob\/\" title=\"Bob and Bubbles\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob and Bubbles<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>When the outside view is not at its best, I look for something pretty inside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb09\/PrettySill640420.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"420\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 420px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On my kitchen window sill:  the single red rose and lilies I bought almost 2 weeks ago and what is left of the live basil after making pesto last weekend.  The lilies are in a vase that was hand painted by my grandmother Ruth.  And I had a little Photoshop fun with a watercolor filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not always pretty from the front porch&#8230; It has been above freezing for several days and nights. The snow is melting and shrinking but what is left is a slushy, puddly, icy mess. The snow is covered with pine needles and sticks. It is not pretty. Bob ventured out to see what he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22340,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/22340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}