{"id":35245,"date":"2026-02-25T18:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35245"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:48:06","slug":"pink-clouds-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35245","title":{"rendered":"Pink Clouds on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sundays&#8217;s snow is melting, but there&#8217;s a lot on the ground yet.  This weekend is supposed to get up into the 50s, so it should melt nicely then.<\/p>\n<p>There was a lovely sunset tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260225_174153-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"Pink clouds at the horizon beyond the hills\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-35243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trees are starting to get the bumps, like they&#8217;re about to flower.  It will happen, suddenly.  They&#8217;ll be brown one day, and the next there will be green and pink and white.  Overnight, spring will emerge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260225_174247.jpg\" alt=\"Pink clouds beyond the water tower\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spring&#8217;s almost here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundays&#8217;s snow is melting, but there&#8217;s a lot on the ground yet. This weekend is supposed to get up into the 50s, so it should melt nicely then. There was a lovely sunset tonight. The trees are starting to get the bumps, like they&#8217;re about to flower. It will happen, suddenly. They&#8217;ll be brown one<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35245\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Pink Clouds on the Horizon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}