{"id":1753,"date":"2009-06-29T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/29\/coastal-light\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:41:42","slug":"coastal-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/29\/coastal-light\/","title":{"rendered":"COASTAL LIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The light is incredible along the western coast of Sweden in the summer. It&#8217;s one of the sunniest spots in the country, logging more sunlight hours by far than the rest of us. This past week, right after midsummer, the sun never actually set, just dipping down behind the horizon around 1 a.m. and apparently scooching quickly around to the east to rise a short hour or so later. Frankly, sunset photos never do the real thing justice. We drove up from Sk\u00e5ne in rain, which slowed and ceased as we arrived on \u00d6dby Island. There were puddles in every rocky depression on the surrounding hills and cliffs and a washed-clean feeling in the air. All week the sky was a uniform robin&#8217;s egg blue: a perfect blue bowl overhead with a fresh sea wind to keep us cool. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/184728_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=752 title=\"Rainbow over Sotens Fiskarby\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\nRainbow over Sotens Fiskarby <font size=\"-4\">(photo: Anders Ek)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/182784_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=752 title=\"Heading home to Hunnebostrand\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\nHeading home to Hunnebostrand <font size=\"-4\">(photo: Anders Ek)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/183204_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Sunlower Light\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\nSunlower lighting: Martin, Karin, John &#038; Simone <font size=\"-4\">(photo: Anders Ek)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/183903_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Sunlower\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\nSunlower in progress (it never actually set!) <font size=\"-4\">(photo: Anders Ek)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/185004_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=730 title=\"Karin and Simone\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\nKarin &#038; Simone on the bridge to Hunnebostrand <font size=\"-4\">(photo: John Slaughter)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The light is incredible along the western coast of Sweden in the summer. It&#8217;s one of the sunniest spots in the country, logging more sunlight hours by far than the rest of us. This past week, right after midsummer, the sun never actually set, just dipping down behind the horizon around 1 a.m. and apparently scooching quickly around to the east to rise a short hour or so later. Frankly, sunset photos never do the real thing justice. We drove up from Sk\u00e5ne in rain, which slowed and ceased as we arrived on \u00d6dby Island. There were puddles in every&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-obiterphotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}