{"id":8893,"date":"2015-09-04T18:17:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2015-09-08T05:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T10:34:05","slug":"a-walk-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8893","title":{"rendered":"A Walk In The Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8895\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111513.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8895\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111513-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Verbesina alternifolia (Wingstem or Yellow Ironweed)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8895\" data-wp-pid=\"8895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111513-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111513-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111513-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111513.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Verbesina alternifolia<\/em> (Wingstem or Yellow Ironweed)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I took a walk this evening, heading from our neighborhood park down Manor Run (the creek that runs through) to Sunfish Pond and eventually to North Branch Rock Creek. It was a pleasant evening, quite warm but nice out. There is quite a bit of yellow ironweed (<em>Verbesina alternifolia<\/em>) all through the woods and it seems quite happy, although even that is starting to notice the lack of rain. August was fairly dry, even for August and we haven&#8217;t had any rain in September so far. We really could use a nice, long, soaking rain. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8896\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8896\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Butorides virescens (Green Heron)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8896\" data-wp-pid=\"8896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150904_111535.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Butorides virescens<\/em> (Green Heron)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We looped around and came up to Sunfish Pond via a different route. As we looked over the pond, a pair of green herons (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>) took off and flew in a big loop around the pond, finally coming to rest at the far end. This one was on a fallen tree and the other was on a branch, a bit further away. I only had my 100mm lens, unfortunately, so this is cropped from the best picture I was able to get. A handsome bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I took a walk this evening, heading from our neighborhood park down Manor Run (the creek that runs through) to Sunfish Pond and eventually to North Branch Rock Creek. It was a pleasant evening, quite warm but nice out. There is quite a bit of yellow ironweed (Verbesina alternifolia) all through the woods &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8893\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893"}],"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=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}