{"id":2434,"date":"2016-05-16T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:24:22","slug":"a-study-in-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2434","title":{"rendered":"A study in yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0countryside is \u00a0ablaze just now with the yellow of gorse bushes, such a contrast in tone to the much colder yellow of the\u00a0oil seed\u00a0rape which is starting to appear in the fields.\u00a0 On our way back from Glen Esk last week\u00a0we took a back road through from Laurencekirk to St Cyurus.\u00a0 The sun was out, the sky was blue and the gorse was shimmering on the hillsides.\u00a0 Shame I courldn’t stop the van and take a picture, but narrow country roads and stopping where you want to indulge your photographic urges don’t go together too well.\u00a0\u00a0 When I did manage to stop it was to take a picture of a lonely stand of pines at the op of a field of growing crops.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday when I was out with the dogs I looked for yellow.\u00a0 Down by the little burn which flows past the Hatton Mill I saw some marsh marigolds (or do you call them king cups?).\u00a0 Just further up the burn from where I stopped to photograph the flowers, there was another flash of yellow as a grey wagtail with its bright yellow breast landed on a stone in the water.\u00a0 No chance of a picture though, since I did not have my big camera with me.\u00a0 I was quite delighted to see it, we are much more used to seeing the black and white pied wagtails.<\/p>\n

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It’s not only gorse season, the dandelions are magnificent just now.\u00a0 Perhaps we don’t welcome them in our garden, but a carpet of their bright yellow flowers at the roadside is a delight to see in the spring sunshine.\u00a0\u00a0 While I was down on my kneeds patking the picture of the dandelions, it was a yellow siskin which flew by and landed on a fence in the field.<\/p>\n

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There is plenty of gorse about in Hatton too.\u00a0 It can make a lovely blaze of colour at the foreground of a picture.\u00a0 This photograph was taken during an evening walk on the road to Easter Aquarney, near the Hobshill Trig point.\u00a0 A rowan tree grows out of the flowering gorse, and if you look carefully enough you can see\u00a0the moon in the blue evening sky.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0countryside is \u00a0ablaze just now with the yellow of gorse bushes, such a contrast in tone to the much colder yellow of the\u00a0oil seed\u00a0rape which is starting to appear in the fields.\u00a0 On our way back from Glen Esk last week\u00a0we took a back road through from Laurencekirk to St Cyurus.\u00a0 The sun was out,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","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=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}