{"id":10536,"date":"2015-02-28T18:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2015-02-28T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:13:57","slug":"photos-of-the-day-winter-walk-on-the-jack-pine-trail-and-a-spring-thaw-portrait-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/28\/photos-of-the-day-winter-walk-on-the-jack-pine-trail-and-a-spring-thaw-portrait-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail and a Spring Thaw portrait deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">D<\/span>id you see?? The sun came out AND it was above minus 20 today. It was practically summer!! We celebrated with a walk on one of our favourite Ottawa trails, and were delighted by the number of animals who came out to say hello: pileated woodpeckers, nuthatches and chickadees, a merlin, a few playful red squirrels and then, to our delight, a big fat porcupine came sauntering up the trail beside us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16488708668\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8674\/16488708668_eb39dd2525_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16488706388\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8615\/16488706388_c16cf16032_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16056335383\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8602\/16056335383_e4b0c6d0fb_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16488876480\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8647\/16488876480_5ec233bb68_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16488878340\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8612\/16488878340_0e950b48cf_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16469004657\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8569\/16469004657_6fb2f9ec6a_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16469005217\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8596\/16469005217_a2eebc3565_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16053960604\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8636\/16053960604_2b47e847ec_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I did not zoom in for this &#8211; in fact, I had to back up to get him in the frame as the porcupine sauntered past us!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16056339823\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8638\/16056339823_ed1bf561df_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/16674914971\" title=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8575\/16674914971_31966e3afc_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a gorgeous afternoon out, made even more delicious by the recent spate of miserable cold. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, I&#8217;d love to do a few sessions of winter portraits out there before the snow melts and the trails get muddy. For any weekend in March, I&#8217;ll offer a spring thaw discount if you&#8217;d like to do a &#8220;feed the chickadees&#8221; family portrait hike at the Jack Pine Trail &#8211; $150 for the session fee, and you only buy whatever prints or files you want. <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/photo\/pricing\">Prices are listed on my photo site<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll even bring the bird seed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see?? The sun came out AND it was above minus 20 today. It was practically summer!! We celebrated with a walk on one of our favourite Ottawa trails, and were delighted by the number of animals who came out to say hello: pileated woodpeckers, nuthatches and chickadees, a merlin, a few playful red &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/28\/photos-of-the-day-winter-walk-on-the-jack-pine-trail-and-a-spring-thaw-portrait-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the day: Winter walk on the Jack Pine Trail and a Spring Thaw portrait deal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10539,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions\/10539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}