{"id":851,"date":"2012-01-31T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2012-01-31T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:05:52","slug":"where-are-you-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Where are you, Winter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You used to come and visit. Take 1973, in Charleston, SC:<\/p>\n

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Dad, The snowman, “Tiny”, our chihuahua, and me.<\/p>\n

Then, in March 1980, also in Charleston:<\/p>\n

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From the left, my friend Karan Steinmeyer, me (yes, my foot is on my skateboard — don’t ask, I don’t know why!), and friend Patty Scofield.<\/p>\n

1984, in Virginia:<\/p>\n

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Not much snow, but enough to make a snowman. (Oh, and Polaroid film!)<\/p>\n

Jump forward to 2010:<\/p>\n

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Snow and ice. Brr!<\/p>\n

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We had our share of snow… a good 6-8 inches (which, for Virginia, is a good snowfall). But even that amount of snow could not…<\/p>\n

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…disturb Buddha from his contemplations. (This photo was when Buddha was at his original home in Norfolk, before he came to stay with me for a while — he’s currently on my hearth.)<\/p>\n

Silver Blue, who is cursing this 60 and 70 degree weather at the end of January. I want my cold weather, I want my snow… to kill the bugs, and to make me appreciate the spring and summer more!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You used to come and visit. Take 1973, in Charleston, SC: Dad, The snowman, “Tiny”, our chihuahua, and me. Then, in March 1980, also in Charleston: From the left, my friend Karan Steinmeyer, me (yes, my foot is on my skateboard — don’t ask, I don’t know why!), and friend Patty Scofield. 1984, in Virginia: […]<\/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":[376,377,378,244,375,288,373,374,58,372],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-376","tag-377","tag-378","tag-244","tag-buddha","tag-canon","tag-kodak-x-10","tag-poloroid","tag-snow","tag-xt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}