{"id":41659,"date":"2019-07-16T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T17:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=41659"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:06:38","slug":"lookin-out-my-back-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/lookin-out-my-back-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookin&#8217; out my back door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anybody who wonders why I live here &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-01_SMALL_071519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-01_SMALL_071519-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-01_SMALL_071519-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-01_SMALL_071519-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-01_SMALL_071519-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-01_SMALL_071519.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; that&#8217;s 12 feet from my back door.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sometimes the vegetation does get carried away. Between morning glory, ivy, alder saplings, and the omnipresent blackberry vines, you can almost watch the grow-y things growing. Summer may not be sunny, but it&#8217;s one long struggle to keep plants from taking over plants. This is what that big fern in the right foreground looked like 10 minutes before I took the above shot, being strangled and consumed by morning glory tendrils:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-03_BiggestFernBeforeMorningGloryRemoved_SMALL_071519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-03_BiggestFernBeforeMorningGloryRemoved_SMALL_071519-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-03_BiggestFernBeforeMorningGloryRemoved_SMALL_071519-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-03_BiggestFernBeforeMorningGloryRemoved_SMALL_071519-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-03_BiggestFernBeforeMorningGloryRemoved_SMALL_071519-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-03_BiggestFernBeforeMorningGloryRemoved_SMALL_071519.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful, cannibalistic vegetation. We have everything a rain forest has. Except, you know, the lovely tropical heat.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is not a bad view to awaken to every morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-02_SMALL_071519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-02_SMALL_071519-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-02_SMALL_071519-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-02_SMALL_071519-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-02_SMALL_071519-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Backyard_FernBank-02_SMALL_071519.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back soon with a links post or something more content-y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anybody who wonders why I live here &#8230; &#8230; that&#8217;s 12 feet from my back door. Of course, sometimes the vegetation does get carried away. Between morning glory, ivy, alder saplings, and the omnipresent blackberry vines, you can almost watch the grow-y things growing. Summer may not be sunny, but it&#8217;s one long struggle to keep plants from taking over plants. This is what that big fern in the right foreground looked like 10 minutes before I took the above shot, being strangled and consumed by morning glory tendrils: Beautiful, cannibalistic vegetation. We have everything a rain forest has.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/lookin-out-my-back-door\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lookin&#8217; out my back door<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-gardening-heaven-forbid","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41665,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659\/revisions\/41665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}