{"id":365,"date":"2009-04-17T18:46:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T02:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2009-04-17T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T02:46:31","slug":"sunset-season-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Sunset Season is upon us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been living here almost exactly 3 years now; it will be three years in a week and a half!\u00a0 Time files.\u00a0 Sunsets seem to be most intense colors this time of year, the sun is staying up a little later and has moved a lot farther north on the west horizon.\u00a0 Lots of cloudy weather helps to contribute to sunsets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_425\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-425\" title=\"april-14\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/april-14.jpg\" alt=\"Tuesday's sunset\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-14.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-14-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuesday&#39;s sunset<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wednesday morning we woke up to a white yard again; a mixture of snow and hail fell during the evening and overnight.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t last very long but it was a little surprising to see that winter was still wanting to hang on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_426\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-426\" title=\"april-16\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/april-16.jpg\" alt=\"Thursday's Sunset\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-16.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-16-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thursday&#39;s Sunset<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thursday the sky was almost on fire with intense and bright yellow light ringing thin clouds.\u00a0 It was a simply gorgeous sky but it didn&#8217;t last very long.\u00a0 It was a cold day.<\/p>\n<p>Friday it was a very wet and rainy day, occasionally the house would be surrounded by a white fog bank and we couldn&#8217;t see anything.\u00a0 It was a cozy feeling actually.<\/p>\n<p>This evening the clouds lifted after the heavy rain and hail, while the sun was setting.\u00a0 The sunshine was bouncing off the mountains to the east and creating this really neat light on the mountains across the vallley.\u00a0 It looks like velvet carpeting the hillsides.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_427\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-427\" title=\"april-17-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/april-17-1.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds lifting and mist rising\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-17-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-17-1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clouds lifting and mist rising<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_428\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-428\" title=\"april-17-2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/april-17-2.jpg\" alt=\"Reflected sunlight on last years' brown grass\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-17-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/april-17-2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reflected sunlight on last years&#39; brown grass<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All of these pictures were taken with a slight telephoto lense, trying to catch the colors and textures that so intrigue us.<\/p>\n<p>The view of the sky and the mountains seems to have an incredible variety in colors.\u00a0 It so nice to see something other than snow and cold shadows cast by the conifers.\u00a0 Spring!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been living here almost exactly 3 years now; it will be three years in a week and a half!\u00a0 Time files.\u00a0 Sunsets seem to be most intense colors this time of year, the sun is staying up a little later and has moved a lot farther north on the west horizon.\u00a0 Lots of cloudy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}