{"id":16047,"date":"2026-06-21T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16047"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:10:12","slug":"shadow-shot-sunday-shadowy-trails-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16047","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Shot Sunday &#8211; Shadowy Trails to You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw some shadows while hiking earlier this week on Tulsa&#8217;s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sjcz5o\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55339922938_2accf166e9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Deer in the Shadows\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This deer was hanging out in the shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sjdNaw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55340162080_60ca0ee94c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Shadowy Rocky Trail\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In places where trails get muddy frequently, one sees pieces of flat rock that are fitted together like a jig saw puzzle. When it rains the water flows over the rocks without eroding the trail and making a big mess. It is called &#8220;rock armoring&#8221; a trail. It&#8217;s a bit much for volunteers to do. One needs to have some machinery to move the rocks around. (Finding the rocks to use in armoring is called &#8220;rock farming.&#8221;) It&#8217;s hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sjaX8B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55339606909_2e757b78c4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Trail Leaf Shadows\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I saw some leaves forming shadows on the trail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer, I look for the shadowy trails to hike, especially at midday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am linking with Shadow Shot Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/thisandthatablog.blogspot.com\/2026\/06\/shadow-shot-sunday-june-21-2026.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thisandthatablog.blogspot.com\/2026\/06\/shadow-shot-sunday-june-21-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Happy Father&#8217;s Day<\/strong><\/a> to all the dads out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw some shadows while hiking earlier this week on Tulsa&#8217;s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area. This deer was hanging out in the shadows. In places where trails get muddy frequently, one sees pieces of flat rock that are fitted together like a jig saw puzzle. When it rains the water flows over the rocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[387],"tags":[1390,1329,3813,4080,1056,1346,1284],"class_list":["post-16047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shadow-shot-sunday","tag-deer","tag-hiking","tag-leaves","tag-rock-armoring","tag-shadow-shot-sunday","tag-shadows","tag-turkey-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047"}],"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=16047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16048,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16047\/revisions\/16048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}