{"id":93282,"date":"2019-10-17T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=93282"},"modified":"2019-10-17T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:54:23","slug":"autumn-light-in-the-berkeley-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=93282","title":{"rendered":"autumn light in the Berkeley Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/oct2019\/i-DncnkWR-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2019\/i-DncnkWR-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-DncnkWR-X3.jpg\" width=\"541\" height=\"810\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Mitch was up in the Berkeley Hills over the weekend, which were suitably bathed in the golden light of autumn.\u00a0 Knowing how much I love eavesdropping on gardens, he grabbed some quick, discreet photos of his rambles.\u00a0 \u00a0(I&#8217;m sharing them here, because I know you love eavesdropping on gardens as much as I do.)\u00a0 Intentionally or not, his camera also picked up small, subtle gestures that pay tribute to the seasonal shift, California-style.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/oct2019\/i-fL7GgdR-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2019\/i-fL7GgdR-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-fL7GgdR-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>a pumpkin on a pedestal in what may possibly be Roger Raiche&#8217;s former garden &#8212; at least that&#8217;s what Mitch thinks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/oct2019\/i-nhT7sfH-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2019\/i-nhT7sfH-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-nhT7sfH-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Fall- and winter-blooming aloes stirring into bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/oct2019\/i-mNj29hK-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2019\/i-mNj29hK-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-mNj29hK-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>golden light, blue succulents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/oct2019\/i-4ZPRBSt-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2019\/i-4ZPRBSt-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-4ZPRBSt-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Knifeleaf acacia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/oct2019\/i-KkkT33R-X2.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2019\/i-KkkT33R-X2.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-KkkT33R-X2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"719\"\/><\/a><figcaption>absorbing multi-sided shadowplay from a totem of square shapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/oct2019\/i-WFB9QF4-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2019\/i-WFB9QF4-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-WFB9QF4-X3.jpg\" width=\"541\" height=\"810\"\/><\/a><figcaption>a quintessential Berkeley garden gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only two more weeks to go until Halloween, and our neighborhood is in a frenzy of decorating  &#8212; not so much at our house.  But now I&#8217;m thinking  a pumpkin on a pedestal for the front garden might be a nice touch in honor of the season&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch was up in the Berkeley Hills over the weekend, which were suitably bathed in the golden light of autumn.\u00a0 Knowing how much I love eavesdropping on gardens, he grabbed some quick, discreet photos of his rambles.\u00a0 \u00a0(I&#8217;m sharing them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=93282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[850,112,30,624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-travel","category-garden-visit","category-mb-maher-2","category-occasional-daily-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-ogy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93282"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93301,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93282\/revisions\/93301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}