{"id":87,"date":"2014-10-30T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-10-30T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:26:16","slug":"fall-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/fall-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2014.jpg\" alt=\"2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m spending too much time inside, lately.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of my view of fall has been from the kitchen slider window.\u00c2\u00a0 I keep expecting to wake up and find all the leaves have fallen off or blown away, but the trees continue to flame out in color.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve escaped the house a few times to get a look at the trees.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;ve been particularly lazy with charging up the camera and going for a drive to photograph fall colors this year.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why &#8211; I have the time, but I guess I&#8217;ve been resisting driving around and wasting fuel if it&#8217;s not necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 So most of what I&#8217;ve photographed has been driving from home to the library and back.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve resorted to pulling over and using my phone, which is usually fine, but with a cracked camera lens, I tend to get JJ Abrams-type lens flare if there&#8217;s a lot of sun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_124817cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_124817cr-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tree in flame stage.\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_124817cr-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_124817cr.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree in flame stage.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Over on the northwest side of Leesburg, the trees started changing rather early.\u00c2\u00a0 The photo doesn&#8217;t do this tree justice &#8211; The colors were so vibrant I turned around to go back and get a photo of it.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish the trees in our yard would change like this, but so far they&#8217;re still green.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_135459cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_135459cr-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful Color on Tree.\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_135459cr-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_135459cr-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141017_135459cr.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful Color on Tree.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This tree was photographed on the southeast side of Leesburg\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; Again, the camera just doesn&#8217;t capture the true brilliance of the colors.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a shame that we&#8217;ll get a good two weeks of color and then the leaves will disappear.\u00c2\u00a0 Fall is definitely my favorite season, both for the temperature change and the colors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141029_094053cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141029_094053cr-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Fall trees during an early October morning walk.\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141029_094053cr-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141029_094053cr-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141029_094053cr.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fall trees during an early October morning walk.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Southeast Leesburg again.\u00c2\u00a0 The oaks are turning brown; the cherry trees along the road all turned yellow and lost their leaves about a week or so ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Even with the rain and wind, these guys have managed to hold onto their leaves for a little while longer.\u00c2\u00a0 Soon, with the time change, we won&#8217;t even see them in the sunset\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; it will be too dark to see anything on he drive home at night.\u00c2\u00a0 While I tend to look forward to the change back to standard time, I&#8217;ll definitely miss watching the sunset on the commute home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blah, blah, blah &#8211; back to writing for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending too much time inside, lately.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of my view of fall has been from the kitchen slider window.\u00c2\u00a0 I keep expecting to wake up and find all the leaves have fallen off or blown away, but the trees continue to flame out in color.\u00c2\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve escaped the house a few times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}