{"id":9539,"date":"2017-01-13T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9539"},"modified":"2017-01-13T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:24:14","slug":"another-snowfall-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9539","title":{"rendered":"Another snowfall photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S-simple-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"853\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S-simple-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S-simple-1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S-simple-1-1-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S-simple-1-1-768x655.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every snowfall is an excuse to shoot photos of the house. This photo is from the 10 or more inches of snow that fell on January 7. <\/p>\n<p>The landscaping of the abbey is still a work in progress. There are 13 of the arbor vitae trees, most of which are about a third to half grown. The arbor vitae trees were a great choice, because they provide a lot of shelter for the birds. We finally found an old-fashioned mimosa tree. We&#8217;re thinking of starting some holly hedges. Ken is planning to start some walnut trees the old-fashioned way &#8212; by planting walnuts. We&#8217;re also thinking about a pecan tree. <\/p>\n<p>Last year was a terrible growing year. Rainfall was a bit below normal &#8212; 40.5 inches for the year. The rain we had fell at the wrong times to optimize growth, and young trees were water-stressed for much of the year. Here&#8217;s hoping that the 2017 growing year is an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily there are no power lines on abbey property. Power lines would subject our trees to the brutal trimming that rural electric companies do. The feed line to the house is buried. If you&#8217;re ever buying property, that&#8217;s something to keep in mind. You don&#8217;t want utility rights-of-way across your property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every snowfall is an excuse to shoot photos of the house. This photo is from the 10 or more inches of snow that fell on January 7. The landscaping of the abbey is still a work in progress. There are 13 of the arbor vitae trees, most of which are about a third to half &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another snowfall photo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9539","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\/9539","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=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9544,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions\/9544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}