{"id":1909,"date":"2018-11-04T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T04:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2018-11-05T04:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T09:42:44","slug":"last-gasp-of-glory-before-the-snow-flies-fifth-line-nov-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"Last Gasp of glory before the snow flies (Fifth Line Nov. 4, 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maybe you would  like  to savour the glory of our fall colours  for just one more time.  The winter wind is blowing as I write and the<\/div>\n
leaves a swirling skyward then down to earth as a temporary carpet on the ground.    Soon they will just be a memory.  So I thought<\/div>\n
you might like this reminder.<\/div>\n

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alan   Nov. 5, 2018<\/div>\n

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Do you recognize the GINGKO\u2026Most ancient tree on earth\u2026grew and thrived  long before the dinosaurs came and went\u2026we have one gingko beside our front door.<\/div>\n

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There was a time not long ago when a big section of the Fifth line was protected  by a long line of immense tree roots  that had been pulled from the earth<\/div>\n
by pioneer farmers using huge hand made excavators armed with one gigantic screw gear.  Only these three have survived when someone dragged three<\/div>\n
of the roots across  the road and wedged them among the living forest.  The rest, I assume, were burned.  Too bad for they were homes to all kinds of small creatures.<\/div>\n
When I was a kid, one of our ministers at Runnymede  Presbyterian  Church used to give a children\u2019s sermon each sunny based on a piece he cut from the white pine<\/div>\n
root fences  that were once so common.  See if you can find a face on this root.  Now see if  you can  write a  sermon for little kids.  I see the head of a monster<\/div>\n
dead centre.  Not a good  idea for a sermon though.  <\/div>\n

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Wonder if you Red or you Eric or you Carole can  remember those sermons?<\/div>\n

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Look at this root\u2026I can see a porpoise swimming upside down\u2026maybe just a fish\u2026.<\/div>\n

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This face was carved on one of our giant squash.  Big success tis  year.  So big we cannot lift them.  Gruesome…<\/div>\n

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Right now our street looks beautiful .  In another month ti will change from red  and  yellow to white and black\u2026another kind of beauty.<\/div>\n

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Test:  Can you find a  leaf that is NOT from a tree?   Looks like the skin of a big snake.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, Maybe you would  like  to savour the glory of our fall colours  for just one more time.  The winter wind is blowing as I write and the leaves a swirling skyward then down to earth as a temporary carpet on the ground.    Soon they will just be a memory.  So I thought you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}