{"id":1814,"date":"2010-03-27T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2010-03-27T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:28:44","slug":"a-walk-to-the-mailbox-early-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"A walk to the mailbox, early evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to walk half a mile to my mailbox. The mail carrier doesn’t come down the unpaved private road I live on. I took my camera with me when I went to pick up the mail this evening.<\/p>\n

Above: pear trees in full bloom. I wish I could say they’re mine, but the trees line the road beside a neighbor’s horse pasture, up the road from my house.<\/p>\n

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\nThe pear blossoms up close<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe neighbor’s horses<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nForsythia<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nI’m not sure what this is. They seem too tiny to be violets. Update: My sister emailed to say that they are bluets.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nI don’t know, but the color sure is nice…<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nAn early dandelion<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nI’d often wondered why a neighbor strung fairy lights along a pasture fence. Now I know. It was an experiment in keeping the deer out. I doubt that it worked.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to walk half a mile to my mailbox. The mail carrier doesn’t come down the unpaved private road I live on. I took my camera with me when I went to pick up the mail this evening. Above: pear trees in full bloom. I wish I could say they’re mine, but the trees … Continue reading “A walk to the mailbox, early evening”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}