{"id":6505,"date":"2012-01-08T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2012-01-08T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T13:17:08","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-after-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/this-week-in-pictures-after-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: after the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span>&#8216;m still on the fence as to whether this is another 365 project, but I did take a picture (or five) each day this week.  How can I stop taking pictures when there&#8217;s cuteness like this is my life?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6637787271\/\" title=\"Simon in the snow by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7171\/6637787271_0c5db96b1a.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Simon in the snow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t he so lovely?  Oh my, but that boy will break hearts some day.  <\/p>\n<p>This last week was mostly about family, even though I did have to eventually drag my sorry self in to work at the very end of the week.  I love the expressions on their faces in this one, ranging from indulgence to barely repressed impatience to impish mischieviousness.  They&#8217;re so patient with me, my menfolk are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6616286735\/\" title=\"Happy 2012! by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7168\/6616286735_8b7efd75cf.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Happy 2012!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I pulled over on the way home from work when I saw this murder of crows infesting a big tree off Limebank Road.  I converted it to B&#038;W, but it was such a flat grey day that it was almost there already.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6649684365\/\" title=\"A murder of crows by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7010\/6649684365_5e9699801c.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"A murder of crows\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea for this one arrived fully formed in my head one night and I&#8217;m pleased that it&#8217;s almost exactly as I&#8217;d envisioned it.  (I can never seem to remember to wear makeup, and I don&#8217;t bother to shave half the time in winter, but I do have a soft spot for a multi-coloured pedicure.)(But, I should focus on either the polish or the camera, because while the picture is fun the pedicure is a mess with polish all over the place!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6631153589\/\" title=\"Girly by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7160\/6631153589_79c42aff9a.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Girly\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one started out as a completely different picture, which failed miserably in the execution, but did inspire me to put this together.  I like it very much!  The camera is a Polariod EE100, built in the late 1970s and rescued for $5 from a junk shop by me. \ud83d\ude42 The the scratchy look comes from a texture I found on Flickr.  Apparently it (the camera, not the texture) will take Fuji pack instant film &#8212; I may have to try it out one day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6643841425\/\" title=\"Polaroid EE100 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7017\/6643841425_b74d982a3d.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Polaroid EE100\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early in the week we had a visit from the boys&#8217; grandparents, Mimi and Pipi.  I was taking out the garbage when I noticed Beloved&#8217;s dad out there in the snow without gloves, building a snowman to entertain the kids.  Have I mentioned how much I love my family?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6624483313\/\" title=\"Grandpas are awesome 2 of 2 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7012\/6624483313_cc7f88ae51.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Grandpas are awesome 2 of 2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6624480431\/\" title=\"Grandpas are awesome (1 of 2) by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7148\/6624480431_b5a84a4724.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Grandpas are awesome (1 of 2)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grandparents cause the most delightful sorts of disruptions, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;m still on the fence as to whether this is another 365 project, but I did take a picture (or five) each day this week. How can I stop taking pictures when there&#8217;s cuteness like this is my life? Isn&#8217;t he so lovely? Oh my, but that boy will break hearts some day. This last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/this-week-in-pictures-after-the-holidays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This week in pictures: after the holidays&#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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505","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=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}