{"id":751,"date":"2010-10-31T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=751"},"modified":"2010-10-31T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T15:32:31","slug":"red-alder-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/red-alder-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Alder Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Red-Alder-and-Hemlock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-752\" title=\"Red-Alder-and-Hemlock\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Red-Alder-and-Hemlock-600x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leaves, leaves, leaves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what my life is about these days &#8211; especially big-leafed maple leaves. About the size of a dinner plate (some are platter-sized), our enormous southside maple STILL has a few thousand leaves to drop. And the red alders have barely begun to even think about it. Don&#8217;t get me started. I love this forest place of ours, but this time of year the\u00a0trees are\u00a0definitely in charge of my life. Autumn blows comes though, I vacuum them up with the mower and haul&#8217;um down to the huge compost pile. In a couple of years they&#8217;ll magically transform\u00a0into the\u00a0best mulch money could buy. The garden loves it, but getting the process started is what I&#8217;m\u00a0painting about today. Maybe paying homage to them will hasten the process.<\/p>\n<p>Got to run. Leaves are awaitin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re interested in this original mixed media on paper, just send me an <a href=\"mailto:larry@larryeifert.com\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks for reading this week.<br \/>\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\">Click <\/a>here to go to the online blog this was to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\">Click <\/a>here to go to our main website &#8211; packed with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nancycherryeifert.com\">Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy&#8217;s currently working on with her photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaves, leaves, leaves. That&#8217;s what my life is about these days &#8211; especially big-leafed maple leaves. About the size of a dinner plate (some are platter-sized), our enormous southside maple STILL has a few thousand leaves to drop. And the red alders have barely begun to even think about it. Don&#8217;t get me started. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/red-alder-leaves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Alder Leaves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[11,34],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","category-uncategorized","tag-alders","tag-easel-paintings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}