{"id":490,"date":"2016-03-07T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2016-03-07T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T03:11:42","slug":"this-week-there-will-be-cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"This week there will be Cranes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week went fine, as I continued to work on my cover art. I seem to have gotten past that sense of eternal disappointment I have with everything I create. So while it was finicky work with lines and nodes, I was able to enjoy the process again.<\/p>\n<p>This week I am shorting my goal a bit, as I will be away on vacation from Thursday to Sunday. So only three days of work this week instead of five. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday I drive off to Monte Vista, Colorado, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mvcranefest.org\/2016-festival\/\">Sandhill Crane Festival<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been through Monte Vista several times, and I&#8217;ve seen the crane migration in different places, but I&#8217;ve never been to the Festival before. Along with viewing the cranes at sunset, I&#8217;ve signed up for two different wetlands tours and plan to sit in on a workshop about owls. Evening entertainment will include a birding movie, &#8220;The Big Year&#8221;, and a dramatic reading of the works of Aldo Leopold. For a long-time birder like me, this will be a big treat.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/clarybooks.com\/Pics\/cranes-sm.jpg\"><br \/>\n<i>These cranes were actually in New Mexico.<\/i><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mr. J has to work so he&#8217;ll be at home taking care of the cats, and I&#8217;m traveling on my own. I used to travel around the country by myself all the time, but it&#8217;s rare now since we usually travel together. I suspect he&#8217;ll have a good time with the house to himself. I&#8217;ll have my laptop with me, so I will be able to work if I want to. I&#8217;m not counting on it though.<\/p>\n<p>So, vacation check-in next week. Meanwhile, here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/wordpress_list.aspx?id=265538&#038;type=basic&#038;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\">blog hop link<\/a> for today&#8217;s check-in. I hope everyone has had a productive week as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week went fine, as I continued to work on my cover art. I seem to have gotten past that sense of eternal disappointment I have with everything I create. So while it was finicky work with lines and nodes, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=490\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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_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":[27,10,15],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-covers","category-random","tag-row80"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x1Kd-7U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}