{"id":11835,"date":"2023-03-20T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=11835"},"modified":"2023-04-19T20:12:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T01:12:42","slug":"a-few-photos-for-your-perusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2023\/03\/20\/a-few-photos-for-your-perusal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Photos for Your Perusal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p style=\"font-size: .85em;\">About the header photo: Early morning skies are most dramatic when the rising sun hits clouds at just the right angle. But some clouds are of human origin&#8230;such as this contrail left by a high-flying jet.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been about a month since I last devoted an entire post to photographs. Here is a handful that I&#8217;ve accumulated since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/baycountryrun.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Winding road lined with bluebonnets and trees in Horseshoe Bay, Texas\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">You have my sympathy if your morning run doesn&#8217;t include scenes like this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/yellowflower.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: A bright yellow primrose bloom\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I think this is a primrose of some kind, but I could be wrong. I&#8217;m not a floweratician. In any event, it&#8217;s a nice change from all those boring bluebonnets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/bluebonnets2023\/hiddenbycreek.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: A patch of bluebonnets almost hidden from side on the bank of the creek\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Speaking of bluebonnets, not all of them are exhibitionists. Some try to stay hidden by mingling with the undergrowth by the creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/ourhouseandcreek.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Our house as viewed from the opposite bank of the creek\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Speaking of the creek, here&#8217;s our humble abode as seen from the other side of Pecan Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"hawks\"><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/hawk2023\/hawkinnest2023_2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We were thrilled to discover that the red-tailed hawks have returned to the big nest in the live oak down the street. This is a drone&#8217;s eye view of one incubating eggs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/birdseggs.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: 5 bird eggs in a nest constructed inside a hose bib cover\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Speaking of birds and their eggs, I discovered this clutch inside one of our insulated hose bib covers. Species unknown. This is going to put a dampener on my car washing plans for a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/cableintree1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Pecan tree with a thick wire cable running through its trunk\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">It&#8217;s hard to make out, but there&#8217;s a thick metal cable that has been swallowed up by the trunk of this massive old pecan tree. We have no idea about its original purpose.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos2\/cableintree2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Large pecan tree with a length of thick wire cable and a piece of tin embedded in the trunk\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Here&#8217;s a closer look. The tree also absorbed a large piece of tin along with the wire cable; the cable goes in this side and exits on the other side of the trunk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a handful of random photos I&#8217;ve taken over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,66,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-plant-life","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sunrisecontrail.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11955,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions\/11955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}