{"id":1811,"date":"2016-02-25T14:50:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:50:49","slug":"hunting-for-a-winter-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for a winter picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Hunting for a winter picture\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5602.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1811\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I set off today to try to find a picture to put at the top of the Blog.\u00a0 I had been using a picture of daisies, but that does not seem right for midwinter.\u00a0\u00a0 The sun was shining brightly on the big field beside the Auchlethen road.\u00a0 I often see deer here, but there were none today.\u00a0\u00a0 The picture looks OK in the usual format but it does not really cut down well to fit the top of the page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5602.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1809\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5602.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5602\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5602.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5602-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5602-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5602-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will just have to keep trying!<\/p>\n<p>Watching me from the field on the other side of the road were some cattle, munching away at their elevenses.\u00a0\u00a0 I see them from time to time when I walk up this road &#8211; a couple of calves, a bullock as well as the mothers.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately there was just too much contrast between the shadows and the bright snow, so no successful photographs of my spectators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5598.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1807\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5598.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5598\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5598.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5598-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5598-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5598-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5598-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cattle seemed quite unperturbed at the camera and even at\u00a0the dogs.\u00a0\u00a0 I hitched Lily and Poppy up to a tree while I tried to take the pictures.\u00a0\u00a0 At least I got one picture which works quite well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5601.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1808\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1808\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5601.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5601\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5601.jpg 667w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5601-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5601-624x936.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set off today to try to find a picture to put at the top of the Blog.\u00a0 I had been using a picture of daisies, but that does not seem right for midwinter.\u00a0\u00a0 The sun was shining brightly on the big field beside the Auchlethen road.\u00a0 I often see deer here, but there were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}