{"id":593,"date":"2008-09-27T18:28:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T00:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:15:00","slug":"sometimes-i-dont-take-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/09\/sometimes-i-dont-take-the-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I don&#8217;t take the camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t always take the camera and tonight, on the evening walk with Karl, I did not.  There was nothing extra out of the ordinary on our walk.  It was a beautiful early evening after a beautiful day &#8211; blue sky, wispy clouds, a breeze which occasionnally gusted to that wondrous, soulful song in the upper branches of the pine trees.<\/p>\n<p>I saw several views that would make wonderful photos &#8211; I stood and looked and thought&#8230;  I never, NEVER fail to wonder at the GRACE of God, good fortune, karma &#8211; whatever and however you think &#8211; that brought me to this place to live &#8211; for even a moment.  <\/p>\n<p>I looked at the mountain peaks that I am so familiar with &#8211; and you regular readers probably are also! But the light, the clouds, the shadows, the colors &#8211; they seem different on every walk &#8211; and I see them two and sometimes three times a day.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, there were no extra-ordinary colors, no unusual light &#8211; only the peaks of the Swan Range of the Rocky Mountains backlit by a soft blue sky and light wispy clouds &#8211; clouds and sky that appeared to have been done by a skilled watercolorist.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I don&#8217;t take the camera, because the camera cannot capture all of the beauty and wonder of the moment&#8230; only a glimpse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t always take the camera and tonight, on the evening walk with Karl, I did not. There was nothing extra out of the ordinary on our walk. It was a beautiful early evening after a beautiful day &#8211; blue sky, wispy clouds, a breeze which occasionnally gusted to that wondrous, soulful song in 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22446,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/22446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}