{"id":568,"date":"2019-09-22T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T16:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2019-09-22T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T16:41:27","slug":"mary-mary-quite-contrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/22\/mary-mary-quite-contrary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this Mother Goose nursery rhyme was about Mother Nature for she has been quite contrary this summer.  I spent all winter and spring dreaming of lazy weekend mornings on my deck drinking my coffee and reading.  So far this summer I&#8217;ve been able to do so only twice thanks to Mary and her never ending rainy weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only has the rainy weather kept me from my lazy weekend mornings on my deck, but it&#8217;s also kept me from going to the lake for a sunrise.  On a clear day, I don&#8217;t think there is anything more beautiful or peaceful than seeing the sunrise over Lake Michigan.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past few weekends I&#8217;ve been trying to make it to the lake for the sunrise only to be thwarted by cloudy, drizzly weather.  Last weekend I decided that if I couldn&#8217;t see the sunrise, I could at least get out during the Golden Hour and maybe get a nice photo or two.  After walking around for a couple of hours and not seeing anything that spoke to me, I headed home dejected and uninspired.  And then, just as I was standing on a street corner about a block from my home I looked up and saw  the sky painted in such beautiful colors that it almost didn&#8217;t seem real. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC_0426-3.jpg?fit=840%2C560&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-569\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC_0426-3.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC_0426-3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC_0426-3.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC_0426-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I chased the sunset for a couple more blocks hoping to get a few more photos, but by the time I reached the second block the light was gone.  In the span of  5 or 6 minutes, the sunset had faded to dusk and I thought about how much change happens in mere minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this Mother Goose nursery rhyme was about Mother Nature for she has been quite contrary this summer. I spent all winter and spring dreaming of lazy weekend mornings on my deck drinking my coffee and reading. So far this summer I&#8217;ve been able to do so only twice thanks to Mary and her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/22\/mary-mary-quite-contrary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,17,22],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-street-photography","tag-sunset"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/payQKs-9a","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebeccaflorenphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}