{"id":92699,"date":"2019-09-04T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=92699"},"modified":"2019-09-04T20:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:07:38","slug":"escape-from-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=92699","title":{"rendered":"escape from the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ecstatic, delighted, defeated, miserable?  I probably cycle through all of those emotions in a single September day.  I think a hot day&#8217;s super power is in how all-encompassing and omnipresent it can feel,  blotting out memory and awareness of anything but the sweaty skin you currently inhabit.   We must have stayed outside talking and playing gin rummy until 8 o&#8217;clock last night, until it was cool enough to think about eating &#8212; mosquitos aren&#8217;t too bad if you keep incense lit, and those last hours as the heat drains out of the garden are now the best part of the day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So playing cards all evening in the garden is great, but maybe there&#8217;s other things to do when the day cools down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>This <strong>Saturday, September 7<\/strong>, you can hang out in the <strong>Getty&#8217;s Central Garden<\/strong> until 9 p.m. as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/museum\/programs\/performances\/ever_present.html\">Mother Earth&#8217;s Plantasia<\/a>; free, no reservations required.<\/li><li>Also on Saturday, September 7, 7:30 p.m., <strong>LACMA<\/strong> is holding its annual late-night party Muse &#8217;til Midnight; ticket details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacma.org\/event\/muse-allure\">here<\/a>.<\/li><li>Sponsored by KCRW, Descanso Gardens is holding &#8220;<strong>Three Saturdays of Experimental Music Under the Oaks<\/strong>&#8221; collectively titled &#8220;Silence at Descanso,&#8221; <strong>September 7, 21, and 28<\/strong>; ticket information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.descansogardens.org\/programs-events\/silence\/\">here<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So hang on, the heat will break soon.  In the meantime, I know I&#8217;m ready for a few postcards from spring, from fog, from lush places, and I found a few after rummaging through photos from Mitch&#8217;s recent travels, mostly in California and a few in England.   Because I find what a long, hot day really lacks is some cool contrast.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-D4dxCst-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-D4dxCst-X3.jpg\" alt=\"norcal dana bday may 2019 photo i-D4dxCst-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>walk through a foggy forest in Idyllwild, California<br>May 2019 photos by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-hxkPfs6-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-hxkPfs6-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-hxkPfs6-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-vDxfsxN-X2.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-vDxfsxN-X2.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-vDxfsxN-X2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\"\/><\/a><figcaption>stop to carefully examine the stubble of lichen on branches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-S4NsJFs-X2.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-S4NsJFs-X2.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-S4NsJFs-X2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-dvQDbzx-X2.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-dvQDbzx-X2.jpg\" alt=\"manzanita norcal dana's birthday may 2019 photo i-dvQDbzx-X2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"719\"\/><\/a><figcaption>marvel at the delicacy of manzanita in bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-5LQTcBt-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-5LQTcBt-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-5LQTcBt-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>just a reminder that it is a lush, wet world out there somewhere<br><em>Sagehen Creek Field Station<\/em>, California, August 2019<br>photos by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-sNgrR3X-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-sNgrR3X-X3.jpg\" alt=\"mb\/watts sagehen 2019 photo i-sNgrR3X-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-wKFvfcH-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-wKFvfcH-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-wKFvfcH-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>a reminder that it&#8217;s a fecund world &#8212; Hampstead Heath, England, spring 2019<br>photos by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-tmDDGLT-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-tmDDGLT-X3.jpg\" alt=\"mb hampstead heath england 2019 photo i-tmDDGLT-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/tearsheet\/i-pvx36pt-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/tearsheet\/i-pvx36pt-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-pvx36pt-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecstatic, delighted, defeated, miserable? 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