{"id":272,"date":"2012-04-08T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=272"},"modified":"2012-04-08T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T05:02:52","slug":"my-drive-to-work-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"My Drive to Work, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I proceeded over the San Augustine Pass. I tried to capture what I could of the mountains and the flora.<\/p>\n

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The restricted area signs are an interesting contrast to the vast fields of desert poppies as they open up in the morning light.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This area was the site of a fire last year or the year before. Except for a few plants like this one, it is hardly noticeable.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This should give you an idea of how vast the poppy fields are.<\/p><\/div>\n

So after a long day at the job (where photography is not allowed), I headed home. The desert poppies were a bit more open then they had been in the morning, but not quite as vibrant as they are around noontime. <\/p>\n

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The poppies were more open in the afternoon, but not as impressive as at midday.<\/p><\/div>\n

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My sister and I once stopped here on our way back from a Fabulous Thunderbirds concert before our vehicle broke down. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Here is a fuller view of the store I had photographed in the morning. The crumbling roof part had collapsed recently. In fact, that was what interested me in photographing the abandoned buildings.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The glass in this building was fairly intact until the last year or so.<\/p><\/div>\n

And so ends my description my daily commute. I only wish I had photographic skills to capture the incredible sunrises I usually see, but I also lack the hardware for that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I proceeded over the San Augustine Pass. I tried to capture what I could of the mountains and the flora. So after a long day at the job (where photography is not allowed), I headed home. The desert poppies were a bit more open then they had been in the morning, but not quite as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}