{"id":21702,"date":"2022-03-06T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21702"},"modified":"2022-04-12T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T01:06:15","slug":"co-canal-near-whites-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21702","title":{"rendered":"C&amp;O Canal, near White&#8217;s Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21704\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_20220306_000538.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21704\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_20220306_000538-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"C&amp;O Canal, near White&#039;s Ford\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_20220306_000538-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_20220306_000538-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_20220306_000538-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_20220306_000538-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_20220306_000538.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C&amp;O Canal, near White&#8217;s Ford<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We took an outing to a new stretch of the C&#038;O Canal today. Not that it&#8217;s really new and we&#8217;ve actually been there before but it&#8217;s been a long time. White&#8217;s Ford is a little ways upstream from White&#8217;s Ferry. We found out way to the parking area and walked downstream on the tow path, stopping to enjoy the large, old maple tree growing at Lock 26. We also ran into a coworker (and her husband) that Cathy knows. We headed off of the towpath and down to the river shortly after passing the marker for White&#8217;s Ford. We saw two barred owls (<em>Strix varia<\/em>), one of whom flew from tree to tree and gave us a really nice view. This photo is the view of the C&#038;O Canal looking upstream from the bridge near the parking area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took an outing to a new stretch of the C&#038;O Canal today. Not that it&#8217;s really new and we&#8217;ve actually been there before but it&#8217;s been a long time. White&#8217;s Ford is a little ways upstream from White&#8217;s Ferry. We found out way to the parking area and walked downstream on the tow path, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21702\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[298,1055,936,3119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21707,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21702\/revisions\/21707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}