{"id":1931,"date":"2011-02-11T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2011-02-11T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:34:02","slug":"been-a-long-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Been a Long Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost mid-February here in the midst of an especially cold and snowy winter (at least for New Jersey; not sure if what we&#8217;ve gone thru would get much attention in Chicago, certainly not Moscow).  But there are signs of hope; the days are noticeably longer, and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any snow in the immediate forecast (I hope).  I read that the jet stream finally straightened itself out, meaning that we might get an easier ride thru to mid-March.  Can Spring be far behind?<\/p>\n<p>A winter like this creates plenty of odd and imposing landscapes from the snow and ice, ugly landscapes that get in your way and tell the soul that times are not favorable.  Here are two such landscapes right near my house.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/snow111.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/snow112.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>But then again, if one looks hard enough, there can be found occasional vistas of simple beauty, like a shadow in the sun or a streetlight reflecting at night on a shiny, undisturbed field of snow.  If you can find one that is not all crunched up.  Well, once I started looking, I did find a few virgin fields, so here are two scenes; one by day and one by night.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/snow114.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/snow113.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>In a few weeks this will all be replaced by mud, and then by the warmth and greenery of plant growth.  And the monster-ish winter of 2011 will be just another bad memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost mid-February here in the midst of an especially cold and snowy winter (at least for New Jersey; not sure if what we&#8217;ve gone thru would get much attention in Chicago, certainly not Moscow). But there are signs of hope; the days are noticeably longer, and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any snow in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}