{"id":1100,"date":"2011-02-09T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:02:44","slug":"a-long-walk-involving-gangs-swings-swans-woods-and-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"A Long Walk involving Gangs, Swings, Swans, Woods, and Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago before our present snowy state I took our dogs on a long walk. It was a very frosty, cold, clear, beautiful day. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5428158311\/\" title=\"R1-05452-0007 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5428158311_bc2595bfb4-300x288.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" alt=\"R1-05452-0007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From left to right is Abby, Rascal, and Ginger. As you can tell I brought along my Diana plastic lens film camera. I love it. It drives some of my fellow bloggers crazy. Sorry guys and gals, I love it. I love my various digital cameras also.<\/p>\n<p>We started out in the greenbelt. We came upon this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5430137068\/\" title=\"R1-05452-0021 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5430137068_34b941ddd5-300x288.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"481\" alt=\"R1-05452-0021\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How come some places get nice graffiti and we get wannabe gang graffiti well hidden away in a greenbelt?<\/p>\n<p>We eventually made it to our neighborhood elementary school. Lots of nice playground equipment here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5428158577\/\" title=\"R1-05452-0018 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5428158577_8a8f895d21-300x289.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"482\" alt=\"R1-05452-0018\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t have too many swings at a school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5428761390\/\" title=\"R1-05452-0019 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5428761390_edd1f39e8f-300x288.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" alt=\"R1-05452-0019\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We checked out one of the neighborhood ponds<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5428761158\/\" title=\"R1-05452-0009 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5428761158_b36fd35197-300x288.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"481\" alt=\"R1-05452-0009\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was cold enough that part of it was frozen over. There are a few swans that live permanently here. One is swimming in the distance at the center right section of the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5428761050\/\" title=\"R1-05452-0004 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5428761050_de1ab681ea-300x287.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"479\" alt=\"R1-05452-0004\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took a turn in a loop along some woods bordering the ground of a Cancer Hospital. Here is the serendipity. We found a small decorated tree in the woods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5428761070\/\" title=\"R1-05452-0005 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5428761070_f1306160ba-300x286.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"478\" alt=\"R1-05452-0005\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were handmade decorations with names on them hanging in the tree. I have no idea what they are there for or how long they have been there. Just one of the mysteries than one encounters that has no answer. The photo looks a little ghostly. I intentionally double exposed it in order  to get both decorations in one photo. You can do that with a &#8220;cheapo camera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In all, we went about 3 miles. Took us about an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago before our present snowy state I took our dogs on a long walk. It was a very frosty, cold, clear, beautiful day. From left to right is Abby, Rascal, and Ginger. As you can tell I brought along my Diana plastic lens film camera. I love it. It drives some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lomography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}