{"id":4277,"date":"2011-04-22T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2011-04-22T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T21:54:24","slug":"life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4277","title":{"rendered":"Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/PleasantValley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4280\" title=\"PleasantValley\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/PleasantValley.jpg\" alt=\"PleasantValley\" width=\"438\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/PleasantValley.jpg 625w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/PleasantValley-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/PleasantValley.jpg\"><\/a><\/em>At this time of year my husband and I are usually in western Massachusetts (hiking, sketching, and\u2014if deadlines have required hauling along a laptop\u2014working) while our daughter\u2019s homeschool coop spends the week working on a Hudson River Valley farm. This year the coop has a different plan, so here in DC we remain. Nevertheless, in honor of Earth Day, I post a sketch from one of our hikes through Mass Audubon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/Nature_Connection\/Sanctuaries\/Pleasant_Valley\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary<\/span><\/a>, where we have spent many happy hours quietly watching beavers. (The beavers are less happy to see <em>us<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p><em>For another sketch, and a history of Earth Day, please see<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1375\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Earth Day<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CakeGreen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4278\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeGreen\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CakeGreen.png\" alt=\"CakeGreen\" width=\"125\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a>Gunilla<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CakeChocCurls21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4279\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeChocCurls2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CakeChocCurls21.png\" alt=\"CakeChocCurls2\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Hasse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year my husband and I are usually in western Massachusetts (hiking, sketching, and\u2014if deadlines have required hauling along a laptop\u2014working) while our daughter\u2019s homeschool coop spends the week working on a Hudson River Valley farm. This year the coop has a different plan, so here in DC we remain. Nevertheless, in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4277\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23,124,109,17],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-festival","tag-lake","tag-massachusetts","tag-penink"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}