{"id":12054,"date":"2016-09-17T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T13:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2016-09-17T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T13:07:24","slug":"photos-of-the-day-apple-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/17\/photos-of-the-day-apple-picking\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Apple picking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">O<\/span>ne of our favourite seasonal markers is our annual trip to a local orchard to pick apples. It looks like it&#8217;s been a great growing season, and when we visited last weekend, the boughs were heavy with ripe Lobos, Paula Reds and MacIntosh apples.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29626753316\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders takes family photography\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8045\/29626753316_6a81246d73_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Apples (2 of 5)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29626753656\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Apples (1 of 5)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8099\/29626753656_d76d08597e_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" wwidth=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Apples (1 of 5)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29626752756\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"AOttawa photographer Danielle Donders takes family photography\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8078\/29626752756_70e098e7e8_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" wwidth=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Apples (4 of 5)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29626753196\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Apples (3 of 5)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8358\/29626753196_3d81e1e059_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" wwidth=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Apples (3 of 5)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual, we picked more than we could ever eat. Beloved has pie crust dough chilling in the fridge to make delicious use of the extras!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29626752566\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders takes family photography\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8299\/29626752566_a53fd35f32_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" wwidth=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Apples (5 of 5)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though apple-picking is definitely an autumnal activity and I feel like summer has not yet released us from her sweaty embrace, we were all shocked to consider that in just a few more weeks we&#8217;ll be picking pumpkins, and picking a Christmas tree just another few weeks after that.<\/p>\n<p>Time keep flying by quicker and quicker, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12055\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Two-boys-and-apples-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Tristan and Simon, apple-picking in 2005!!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12055\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Two-boys-and-apples-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Two-boys-and-apples.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ancient history: Tristan and Simon, apple-picking in 2005!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favourite seasonal markers is our annual trip to a local orchard to pick apples. It looks like it&#8217;s been a great growing season, and when we visited last weekend, the boughs were heavy with ripe Lobos, Paula Reds and MacIntosh apples. As usual, we picked more than we could ever eat. Beloved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/17\/photos-of-the-day-apple-picking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the day: Apple picking&#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":[11,73,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-ottawa-family-fun","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","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=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12057,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions\/12057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}