{"id":3064,"date":"2012-01-23T05:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T10:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2013-07-02T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:47:20","slug":"melange-and-malady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"Melange and malady"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>At last – some snow! It’s a couple feet less than I prefer, having grown up in the middle of the Rocky Mountains, but it’s a start. Of course, I set things in motion when I took my snowblower in for a tune-up…but this isn’t even enough to bother with it. I have a little boy who LOVES to shovel snow, so we turned him loose instead.<\/p>\n

I managed to capture this incongruous mixture of random rural elements while out on some remote gravel road, as usual. This particular photo is actually from quite a while back; I spent most of my weekend unconscious while trying to sleep some sort of cold\/flu\/sinus malady instead of outside with the cameras.<\/p>\n

I sure was excited for the Northern Lights which resulted from a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun over the weekend – but of course it was cloudy! I actually don’t mind that so much, since my ailment had me bedridden (or couch-ridden) anyway. If conditions had been right overhead and I’d missed the event due to illness, I’d have been plenty frustrated!<\/p>\n

Here’s to the start of another great week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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