{"id":12131,"date":"2016-12-04T08:15:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2016-12-04T08:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T13:15:53","slug":"photos-of-the-day-christmas-tree-quest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/photos-of-the-day-christmas-tree-quest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Christmas tree quest 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>e are a family that loves routine, and the highest elevation of a routine becomes tradition. There&#8217;s few traditions more sacred to our family than the annual trip out to Thomas Tree Farm to get a Christmas tree &#8211; and the photographing of said trip!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/31256081262\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Family Christmas by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/6\/5330\/31256081262_46e1bc7f31_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Christmas tree picking 2016\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, Lucas got to make the first couple of cuts. My babies are all growing up!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/30578866184\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Family Christmas by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5571\/30578866184_5c48d127db_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Christmas tree picking 2016-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/31031148450\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Family Christmas by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5619\/31031148450_3878b4cf31_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Christmas tree picking 2016-3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/31400119785\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Family Christmas by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5591\/31400119785_4808e4eac0_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Christmas tree picking 2016-4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love how Lucas has his own bough slung over his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/31031147930\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Christmas tree picking 2016-5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5751\/31031147930_6b42e3d1d4_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Family Christmas by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/31256081812\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Christmas tree picking 2016-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/6\/5717\/31256081812_9e82e9e5cb_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Family Christmas by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize until we got it home that the tree is nearly as wide as it is tall. It&#8217;s got a little junk in its trunk!<\/p>\n<p>Stand by, there is a very good probability of a tree decorating photo essay in the very near future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a family that loves routine, and the highest elevation of a routine becomes tradition. There&#8217;s few traditions more sacred to our family than the annual trip out to Thomas Tree Farm to get a Christmas tree &#8211; and the photographing of said trip! This year, Lucas got to make the first couple of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/photos-of-the-day-christmas-tree-quest-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the day: Christmas tree quest 2016&#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":[11,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131","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=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12132,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions\/12132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}