{"id":736,"date":"2012-01-17T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2012-01-17T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:37:56","slug":"look-up-look-closely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Look up, look closely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birds! Yes, plenty of birds. Pigeons. A Dove. A Gull.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are not birds that migrate, so to see them is not shocking. But&#8230; it is very pleasing to the eye!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-738\" title=\"IMG_0546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0546.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0546-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, pigeons, and not on a statue. I&#8217;m not overly fond of pigeons (because, like Canadian Honkers, they&#8217;re notorious for being poop factories), but these were almost posing.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, and the Dove WAS posing for the photo, almost &#8220;cheesing&#8221; for the camera, as it were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0691.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-740\" title=\"IMG_0691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0691.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0691-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve always lived near water, and because of that, I have an affinity for seagulls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-739\" title=\"IMG_0710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0710.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0710-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s a reason to look closely. Bud, my prolific rose bush, is at it again. Seriously?\u00a0 Yes, seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-737\" title=\"bud\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bud.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bud-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silver Blue, who will be glad when Dreamhost gets the backups back online and my photos are back. Seriously!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds! Yes, plenty of birds. Pigeons. A Dove. A Gull. Of course, these are not birds that migrate, so to see them is not shocking. But&#8230; it is very pleasing to the eye! Yes, pigeons, and not on a statue. I&#8217;m not overly fond of pigeons (because, like Canadian Honkers, they&#8217;re notorious for being poop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[160,334,288,16,287],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-birds","tag-bud","tag-canon","tag-roses","tag-t3i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}