{"id":6192,"date":"2023-12-11T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:51:32","slug":"in-between-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2023\/12\/11\/in-between-time\/","title":{"rendered":"In-Between Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was warm enough to swim laps outside. By the northern standards of my youth, fall has not yet fallen in spite of the mid-December date. Yellow Cowpen Daisies and Zexmenia, pink and yellow Lantana, and even some lingering purple Fall Asters are exploding in showy blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>Top notch, but certainly not my grandmother&rsquo;s notion of fall color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2023\/12\/i-LTQTmLx\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2023\/12\/i-LTQTmLx\/0\/52cc5f8c\/S\/IMG_2618-b-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, as the temperatures drop (as they did this morning with things below freezing), the leaves do turn. The tiny cat-tongue leaves of the Cedar Elms reliably turn bright yellow. The Texas Red Oaks might turn deep burgundy. Dense clusters of Flame Leaf Sumac ignite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2023\/12\/i-45RZ6gC\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2023\/12\/i-45RZ6gC\/0\/71819d9d\/S\/flame-leaf-sumac-dick-nichols-park-c-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a good year, we get a week or two of <em>in-between time<\/em> where the flowers are still blooming and the leaves begin turning. This has been a good year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was warm enough to swim laps outside. By the northern standards of my youth, fall has not yet fallen in spite of the mid-December date. Yellow Cowpen Daisies and Zexmenia, pink and yellow Lantana, and even some lingering purple Fall Asters are exploding in showy blossoms. Top notch, but certainly not my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}