{"id":3085,"date":"2013-06-01T22:14:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:09","slug":"a-few-delightful-sights-on-a-victoria-spring-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/a-few-delightful-sights-on-a-victoria-spring-day","title":{"rendered":"A Few Delightful Sights on a Victoria Spring Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Out garage sailing today and as we were on our way from one sale to the next I happened to glance to my right as we were passing Goodacre Lake in Beacon Hill Park. \u00a0And I saw a row of turtles sunning themselves. \u00a0I have no idea if they are native turtles or former pets. \u00a0They were quite large as you can see by comparison to the nearby duck. \u00a0They were so obviously happy with their faces turned to the sun.<\/p>\n

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And then, close by our feet, at the edge of the “lake” a little family of ducks. \u00a0The young ones speckled and downey still.<\/p>\n

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Bill likes to take an almost daily walk oceanside and the other day came upon rather a lot of kites flying about in a gorgeous blue blue sky.<\/p>\n

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Out garage sailing today and as we were on our way from one sale to the next I happened to glance to my right as we were passing Goodacre Lake in Beacon Hill Park. \u00a0And I saw a row of turtles sunning themselves. \u00a0I have no idea if they are native turtles or former pets. 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":[1,578],"tags":[868,869,867],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-sites-of-victoria","tag-baby-ducks","tag-kites-in-a-blue-sky","tag-sunning-turtles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}