{"id":1302,"date":"2010-03-09T00:37:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T07:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:10","slug":"my-morning-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/my-morning-walk","title":{"rendered":"My Morning Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find I rarely leave the house for a walk without my camera. And today, although suddenly the weather has turned colder, I was determined to get some photos of the trees. This is, after all one of the reasons I moved here… trees in bloom in February and March.<\/p>\n

My artist eyes like to see abstract compositions and this juxtaposition of the red new leaves in the hedge against the fine pink blossoms just caught me.<\/p>\n

\"red-hedge\"<\/p>\n

Only a few houses away I couldn’t resist the twisting black branches of this tree full of blossoms.<\/p>\n

\"tree-in-bloom\"<\/p>\n

The one thing about Victoria is that we are a garden city and even the traffic circles have landscaping! Don’t you just love it?<\/p>\n

\"traffic-circle\"<\/p>\n

I know that when I decide to turn to the right on my walk, I’m going to end up visiting the chickens. There is just no way I’ll miss them. The people here have such a collection of pretty chickens and I’m sure they have pretty eggs too.<\/p>\n

\"chickens\"<\/p>\n

The park next door on the way home presented a chance to get a close up of the blossoms, which I couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n

\"blossom-cls-up\"<\/p>\n

And finally, home again, to be reminded of my flea market find of last weekend. OK consider this the “before” photo. Eric thinks it’s ugly, but Bill and I sat on it in the church parking lot, where the sale was held. The swing has a great swinging movement and hey, it didn’t break. I’ve always wanted a garden swing. Plus the price was right…$8! Now I just have to decide what color to paint it. Oh decisions, decisions.<\/p>\n

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I find I rarely leave the house for a walk without my camera. And today, although suddenly the weather has turned colder, I was determined to get some photos of the trees. This is, after all one of the reasons I moved here… trees in bloom in February and March. My artist eyes like to Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,1],"tags":[552,553,551,549,550],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-sailing","category-garden","category-musings","tag-flea-market-find","tag-landscaped-traffic-circle","tag-pretty-chickens","tag-spring-blossoms","tag-trees-in-bloom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}