{"id":6277,"date":"2011-11-05T07:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2011-11-05T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:56:46","slug":"project-365-portraits-and-pretties-and-rampaging-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/project-365-portraits-and-pretties-and-rampaging-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 365: Portraits and pretties and rampaging pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he days are getting shorter and the light is low in the sky, but it’s been such a beautiful, mild autumn that almost all my pictures were taken outdoors this week. <\/p>\n

On the weekend, I had the great pleasure of meeting the Pietersma family. Have you ever seen the Victorian tinsel and gorgeous tin stars <\/a>that Lee Valley Tools carries at this time of year? I am totally addicted to the stars and they’re one of my favourite holiday decorations (that may creep out into the house for everyday decorations one of these days!) After our session, I was delighted to find out that this family makes all those stars and the tinsel. Isn’t that awesome? It’s not every day you meet a tinsmithing family! (And also? Incredibly charming. I hope my boys grow up to be as polite as these big boys were, and the twins were good as gold as well.)<\/p>\n

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No big story to this one. It’s a vine snaking over the brick wall of one of the many cobblestone courtyards in the Byward Market. I just liked the colours and form.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of colours and form, more low-hanging fruit — erm, leaves.<\/p>\n

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I saw this tableau out of the corner of my eye and very surreptitiously grabbed this picture shooting from the hip. I loved the pattern of the boots but didn’t want to freak out the strangers wearing them by being obvious about taking pictures of their feet!<\/p>\n

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I wonder if there’s anything worth examining in the fact that I am fascinated by things that grow in ditches? I’ve admired these weedy things for weeks. I love how the setting sun plays in the puffiness of whatever they are — kind of a cattail\/wheat\/bullrush thing? (I am such a city girl.)<\/p>\n

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We had such a good time on Halloween that I ended up with a bunch of snapshots, and only mediocre ones at that, but together they paint a pretty good picture of the fun we had. (Halloween this year further reinforced my theory that it’s actually still 1975 in Manotick. The boys ended up with things like full-sized chocolate bars and cans of pop in their loot bags, and at one point a pumper truck from the Ottawa Fire Department was driving around the ‘hood handing out candy! And also? I beamed with pride for days after watching how well-mannered they were in trick-or-treating, and hearing people comment on their well-manneredness and cuteness. We’re doing something right!)<\/p>\n

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And speaking of Halloween, did you hear about the Giant Pumpkin Rampage?<\/p>\n

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It was an epic struggle but Farmer Brown finally managed to get the giant pumpkins back into their cages under lock and key. God help us if they ever escape again…<\/p>\n

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The days are getting shorter and the light is low in the sky, but it’s been such a beautiful, mild autumn that almost all my pictures were taken outdoors this week. On the weekend, I had the great pleasure of meeting the Pietersma family. Have you ever seen the Victorian tinsel and gorgeous tin stars … Continue reading “Project 365: Portraits and pretties and rampaging pumpkins”<\/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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","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=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}