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Samara (Maple Tree Seeds)<\/p>\n
Paper whirly-birds.<\/em> Sweet to think<\/em> -Sonny Rainshine<\/p>\n The weather turned out to be not as bad as forecast this morning so I was able to get out for one last trip to Lithia Park. I started out looking for wood ducks but they appear to have not arrived yet. I proceeded on to the Japanese garden photographing rain droplets on branches along the way. But I really like this close up of a maple seed still hanging from the tree. We used to call them helicopters and play with them as children. So I could really relate to the poem I found to go with it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Samara (Maple Tree Seeds) Paper whirly-birds. They look so much\u00a0 like pairs of insects\u2019 wings,\u00a0 spi- ral- ing down to the ground,\u00a0 helicopters landing on springy tarmacs to deposit next year\u2019s forest,\u00a0 gently,\u00a0 like precious cargo. Sweet to think that trees once had wings and flew.\u00a0 -Sonny Rainshine The weather turned out to be not … Continue reading Day 99 – Maple seeds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-flora","category-macrocloseup","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThey look so much\u00a0<\/em>
\nlike pairs of insects\u2019 wings,\u00a0<\/em>
\nspi-<\/em>
\nral-<\/em>
\ning<\/em>
\ndown<\/em>
\nto the ground,\u00a0<\/em>
\nhelicopters landing<\/em>
\non springy tarmacs<\/em>
\nto deposit<\/em>
\nnext year\u2019s forest,\u00a0<\/em>
\ngently,\u00a0<\/em>
\nlike precious cargo.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nthat trees<\/em>
\nonce had wings<\/em>
\nand flew.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"