{"id":383,"date":"2008-04-24T06:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-04-24T06:37:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T13:37:49","slug":"whats-down-the-road-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s down the road from me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/whome-morning-light.JPG' title='whome-morning-light.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/whome-morning-light.JPG' alt='whome-morning-light.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Home in the morning light<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=346\">previous post<\/a>, if you go about .4 mile up the road from me, you come to the paved public road. If you go down the road from me, you go across a tractor bridge and onto a little tractor road into the woods. Let&#8217;s walk down the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wbaby-clover.JPG' title='wbaby-clover.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wbaby-clover.JPG' alt='wbaby-clover.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Baby clover in the morning dew. Where I exposed the soil for site preparation, I&#8217;ve worked hard to get ground cover growing, mainly fescue grass, rye, and red and white clover. This stuff is off to a good start. I&#8217;ll have more photos when it&#8217;s grown enough to be more photogenic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wlooking-downstream.JPG' title='wlooking-downstream.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wlooking-downstream.JPG' alt='wlooking-downstream.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Looking downstream in my woods<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wbranch-bottom.JPG' title='wbranch-bottom.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wbranch-bottom.JPG' alt='wbranch-bottom.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My little valley, where the branch comes through<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wlooking-upstream.JPG' title='wlooking-upstream.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wlooking-upstream.JPG' alt='wlooking-upstream.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Looking upstream in my woods<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wpine-tree.JPG' title='wpine-tree.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wpine-tree.JPG' alt='wpine-tree.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>What pine trees do in the spring<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wyellow-flower.JPG' title='wyellow-flower.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wyellow-flower.JPG' alt='wyellow-flower.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>When you&#8217;re in the woods, don&#8217;t forget to look down<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wpink-flowers.JPG' title='wpink-flowers.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wpink-flowers.JPG' alt='wpink-flowers.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The woods are full of this in the spring, but I can&#8217;t for the life of me think what it&#8217;s called. Bonnie, what is this? Response: redbud<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wbridge.JPG' title='wbridge.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wbridge.JPG' alt='wbridge.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>From this point on, we&#8217;re on neighbors&#8217; land. The tractor bridge, and the lowest point on our little walk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wfrom-the-bridge.JPG' title='wfrom-the-bridge.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wfrom-the-bridge.JPG' alt='wfrom-the-bridge.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>From the tractor bridge, looking downstream<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wwoods-101.JPG' title='wwoods-101.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wwoods-101.JPG' alt='wwoods-101.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Starting up the next ridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wwoods-102.JPG' title='wwoods-102.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wwoods-102.JPG' alt='wwoods-102.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Continuing up the next ridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wwoods-103.JPG' title='wwoods-103.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wwoods-103.JPG' alt='wwoods-103.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8230; and on up the next ridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wover-yonder.JPG' title='wover-yonder.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wover-yonder.JPG' alt='wover-yonder.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>On the next ridge, looking across a little valley. Do you espy anything familiar on the far hill?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wover-yonder2.JPG' title='wover-yonder2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wover-yonder2.JPG' alt='wover-yonder2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>In case you couldn&#8217;t find it, here&#8217;s the location of my little trailer seen from the opposite ridge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home in the morning light As I mentioned in a previous post, if you go about .4 mile up the road from me, you come to the paved public road. If you go down the road from me, you go across a tractor bridge and onto a little tractor road into the woods. Let&#8217;s walk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#039;s down the road from me&#8221;<\/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":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}