{"id":65,"date":"2005-09-30T09:23:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2005-09-30T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T16:23:41","slug":"fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin awoke and fell back to sleep again tonight under the clouds; it was invigorating. It was the first noticeable cold front of the season. Please do not notice that I was taking this picture while driving.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1609.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1609.jpg','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1609-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford has a new piece of jewelry, the hydroxide molecule ring. Actually, it&#8217;s a small keyring with, oh, I don&#8217;t know, some sort of ball attached to it. Something like that. And I wasn&#8217;t driving when I took this picture, I was at a stoplight. Anyway, he removed it from a little chotchkie that Damon brought home, put it on his finger, and asked me what kind of molecule it looked like.  Ford is into molecular models, atomic models, skeletal models. I can thank <a href=\"www.billnye.com\/\">Bill Nye<\/a>. Thank you, Bill Nye! You rock! Except when Ford is bouncing off the furniture at 4pm, when I am so very tired in the afternoon, proclaiming (no, <strong>shouting<\/strong>) that he is an electron. But it <em>was<\/em> very cute when he dissected his birthday balloons into protons and neutrons. Of course, the whole bunch of them was the nucleus. Thank you, Bill Nye!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1610.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1610.jpg','popup','width=598,height=449,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1610-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1610\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last of the Gayfeather is in bloom, but most has gone to seed and left to drape the new stars:&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1551.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1551.jpg','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1551-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>the grasses<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1582.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1582.jpg','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1582-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1582\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Muscadines are ripe,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1576.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1576.jpg','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1576-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1580.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1580.jpg','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1580-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the Beautyberries are <em>shouting<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1584.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1584.jpg','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_1584-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 1584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin awoke and fell back to sleep again tonight under the clouds; it was invigorating. It was the first noticeable cold front of the season. Please do not notice that I was taking this picture while driving. Ford has a new piece of jewelry, the hydroxide molecule ring. Actually, it&#8217;s a small keyring with, oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-ford","category-seeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}