{"id":2397,"date":"2015-05-31T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/31\/a-moment\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:35:07","slug":"a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/31\/a-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A MOMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve not had much warm weather so far this spring, it&#8217;s been very changeable. Every five minutes, a new condition: rain, breezy, sunny, cloudy, hail, chill, you name it. Yesterday, on the way home from dinner in Malm\u00f6 with Anders&#8217; mom we saw several rainbows. One of them was huge and simply perfect; you could see ALL the colors. Even Anders (who is color-blind), said he thought he could actually see red. Usually all he sees is blue and yellow: all his rainbows are Swedish!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s lilac time, my favorite. They smell so lovely outdoors. We don&#8217;t have any, yet, in our yard, though we have plans, but along the ditch in the back there are several bushes, so we get to enjoy them regardless. I was out watering pots and garden beds at sunset the other day and Karin came home in time to grab the camera and capture some of the light. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/333470_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Lilacs!\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/333966_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Lilac sunset\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/333259_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Lilacs!\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/332530_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Columbine\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/333722_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Down she goes\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/332751_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=665 title=\"kitty\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\nAnother one of our neighborhood friends<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/333036_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 title=\"Lilacs!\"  align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\n<i>All photos copyright 2015 Karin Ek<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a crazy couple of days, a busy weekend, and next week is insane: I have something planned every evening! Today is Swedish Mother&#8217;s Day and my family gave me beautiful flowers, Reese&#8217;s and a DVD box set of all the BBC Dickens movies! WOW! We&#8217;re going to spend the afternoon with Anders&#8217; family, but for now I&#8217;m going to relax a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve not had much warm weather so far this spring, it&#8217;s been very changeable. Every five minutes, a new condition: rain, breezy, sunny, cloudy, hail, chill, you name it. Yesterday, on the way home from dinner in Malm\u00f6 with Anders&#8217; mom we saw several rainbows. One of them was huge and simply perfect; you could see ALL the colors. Even Anders (who is color-blind), said he thought he could actually see red. Usually all he sees is blue and yellow: all his rainbows are Swedish! It&#8217;s lilac time, my favorite. They smell so lovely outdoors. We don&#8217;t have any, yet,&#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":[7,3],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-obiterphotos","tag-wonderfulworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","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=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}