{"id":2198,"date":"2009-03-19T05:48:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T12:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:12:05","slug":"last-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/03\/last-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Last\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8081TreesLg.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8081Trees640427.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the last full day of Winter according to the calendar.  There has been snow &#8211; a lot of snow! &#8211; on the ground since December 14&#8230; a late start but made up for quickly.  As it has warmed up and a lot of melting going on, I&#8217;ve been looking at the calendar, past emails, past photos &#8211; looking for the &#8220;proof&#8221; that all the snow <em>will<\/em> go away&#8230;someday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my anxiousness for green grass, wildflowers and Spring, yesterday&#8217;s snow was a beautiful gift!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Last\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8128SnowshoesLg.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8128Snowshoes600400.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"400\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This winter, I&#8217;ve snowshoed at least once and usually 3-4 times every day &#8211; enjoying the woods and mountains and trying to keep up with Karl<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Last\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8137KarlLg.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8137Karl.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"400\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been a wonderful winter for playing outside.  Each snowfall, every night of alpenglow, each sunrise and sunset are unique.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Last\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8130MtnLg.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Last8130Mtn400600.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"600\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 600px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have enjoyed them all.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, might not have been the last blast of this winter, but it was lovely and a wonderful reminder to enjoy each moment of each day for whatever it might bring.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Spacer65050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning&#8230; Today is the last full day of Winter according to the calendar. There has been snow &#8211; a lot of snow! &#8211; on the ground since December 14&#8230; a late start but made up for quickly. As it has warmed up and a lot of melting going on, I&#8217;ve been looking at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-pets","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","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=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22326,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/22326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}