{"id":1929,"date":"2011-12-10T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T19:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2011-12-11T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T20:48:06","slug":"such-natural-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"Such natural beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/glassice0.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] glass ice\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/AbyssReflectclip.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/AttheAbysspg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Patterned still life.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been chilly here overnight, then bright bright bright stillness and warmer, 40-something temps during the day. Yesterday morning I walked out to my car around ten o&#8217;clock, accompanied by a sun that blazed low and hot on my back as I entered the prairie grass field behind the house. I was greeted with something extraordinary. And, so beautiful, I nearly wept.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/glassice1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] glass ice\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A tsunami, of sorts. A giant wave to ride.<br \/>\nA set of fallen leaves.<br \/>\nA collection of feathers, gently landed.<br \/>\nFrozen, museum quality art.<\/p>\n<p>Nature&#8217;s natural crystallization at work. Brilliant, Escher-esque patterns and perfect math and utter perfection. I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/glassice3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] glass ice\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/wintersun.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] winter sun\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you can&#8217;t tell&#8230;. it was the ice on my windshield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/glassice2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] glass ice\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/glassice4.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] glass ice\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I live amidst wildlife.<br \/>\nI eat wild rice.<br \/>\nAnd now I can add wild ice to my list!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/glassice5.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] glass ice\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Patterned still life. Tweet It&#8217;s been chilly here overnight, then bright bright bright stillness and warmer, 40-something temps during the day. Yesterday morning I walked out to my car around ten o&#8217;clock, accompanied by a sun that blazed low and hot on my back as I entered the prairie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}