{"id":773,"date":"2009-07-05T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T15:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2009-07-05T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T15:32:05","slug":"diary-of-a-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to do a study of sunsets.\u00a0 They are such short lived things and frequently beautiful from this location.<\/p>\n

\"Color

Color intensifies at the horizon short after the sun sets.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The band of color spreads north and south.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The sky color isn't the only thing changing. The hills take on varying hues of blues and purples as they fade into the distance.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The whole sky takes on the deepest shade from the original band of color, and lower clouds take on the same color as the distant hills.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"And

And then it begins to fade to pastels.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunsets here can last for an hour, or they can be quick flashes of changing colors lasting only a few minutes like the one last night.\u00a0 I don’t think we’ll ever get tired of watching them.<\/p>\n

Speaking of watching things, we now bring you the Bunny Channel.<\/p>\n

\"Mishkin

Mishkin is intently sending thought waves at the bunny, "You don't see the kitty behind the glass, just waves of grass waving in front of you... come closer...." It didn't work but it was a good try.<\/p><\/div>\n

I asked the bunny what he thought of Mishkin, and I got a nose wiggle and whiskers flew around his face.\u00a0 Then he hopped off the porch and went about his business.\u00a0 We had a major convention of these little guys outside our window last night, judging by the noise level.\u00a0 They were even growling at each other, a very odd noise indeed, and some drumming was also going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to do a study of sunsets.\u00a0 They are such short lived things and frequently beautiful from this location. Sunsets here can last for an hour, or they can be quick flashes of changing colors lasting only a few minutes like the one last night.\u00a0 I don’t think we’ll ever get tired of watching […]<\/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-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}