Last Friday evening looked promising for a nice sunset so I headed over to “Sky Farm” (a Forest Society parcel) in Deering. The walk to the top is short (about a quarter mile) and the views (mainly to the north) are spectacular. The sunset itself turned out to be a dud, only some low clouds on the horizon. However, the sun provided for some warm low angle light for a brief time; this allowed me to make the first image.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, I headed for the Contoocook Falls in Hillsborough… at least it said “falls” on the map… it is more of a set of small rapids. The light was too harsh (even with broken clouds) and there were not many good angles for shooting the river.\u00a0 However, I did discover some very small (fingernail-sized) wildflowers (Anemone quinquefolia<\/em>, according to Joan) that made for interesting subjects. As I was setting up, one of the flowers had a visitor.<\/p>\n [nggallery id=131]<\/p>\n Last Friday evening looked promising for a nice sunset so I headed over to “Sky Farm” (a Forest Society parcel) in Deering. The walk to the top is short (about a quarter mile) and the views (mainly to the north) are spectacular. The sunset itself turned out to be a dud, only some low clouds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,92,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscapes-2","category-monadnock-region","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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