{"id":251,"date":"2006-10-30T17:31:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T17:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2006-11-12T03:33:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T03:33:24","slug":"just-an-excuse-to-post-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/just-an-excuse-to-post-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"mountaineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hair unwashed.  Eyes unlined.  I never wear makeup when I fly&#8230;or gain any kind of altitude.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped at a rest area so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/a-stranger-with-no-wife\/\" target=_blank>He<\/a> could get a look at the mountains.  Up close and personal.  Ish.  With a D200 and a pocket Sony.  (I always like the pocket <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000H96C3S?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=criminalprofi-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000H96C3S\">Sony <\/a> pics best.)<\/p>\n<p>We had been to Asheville before.  A few years ago we even thought about buying a place there.  Just for the winter.  For the snow we never see &#8211; not really &#8211; no matter how cold it gets in England.  <\/p>\n<p>The first photo was taken on the NC\/TN border.   The second, in WV (by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/pigs-not-polar-bears\/\"target=_blank>my brother<\/a>). It&#8217;s my old back yard.  Literally.  <\/p>\n<table width=\"39%\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"4\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/buffyholt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Asheville\"><br \/>\n    <center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-buffyholt1.jpg\" alt=\"Asheville\" \/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/BLMountain.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Browning Lambert\"><br \/>\n    <center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-BLMountain.jpg\" alt=\"Browning Lambert\" \/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>What you see belongs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/18\/fathers-day\/\" target=_blank><em>the old man<\/em><\/a>.  Who still lives there, on miles and miles of mountains.  He says he&#8217;ll move soon.  Trade in the vastness that&#8217;s <em>The Homeplace<\/em> for something a little more manageable.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe him. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hair unwashed. Eyes unlined. I never wear makeup when I fly&#8230;or gain any kind of altitude. We stopped at a rest area so He could get a look at the mountains. Up close and personal. Ish. With a D200 and a pocket Sony. (I always like the pocket Sony pics best.) We had been to<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}