{"id":1439,"date":"2012-09-20T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=1439"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:52:32","slug":"august-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=1439","title":{"rendered":"August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Plus ca change\u2026what a Summer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Night\u2019s mackerel sky<br \/>\nhints at uncertainty.<br \/>\nChange, the one constant.<\/p>\n<p>(31\/08\/12)<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<p><em>This year, even more than usual \u2013 due, no doubt, to the strange weather we\u2019ve been having, the insects are more abundant than ever, especially, these muggy nights; the daddy-long-legs, or crane flies, skittering all over the walls and ceiling, your face, even, as you lie listening to their terpsichorean manoeuvrings\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tap-dancing crane flies<br \/>\nbeat out their crazy rhythm<br \/>\n-all the room\u2019s their stage.<\/p>\n<p>(24\/08\/12)<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<p><em>And the rain it raineth every day\u2026Perhaps this is the meaning of the cup marks and spirals on our ancient megaliths: patterns of the unceasing rain!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rain makes ancient Art<br \/>\nFleeting, myriad \u201ccup marks\u201d<br \/>\nFlood of images!<\/p>\n<p>(17\/08\/12)<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<p><em>The bees, perhaps more than ourselves, relish every break in the rain-cycle of this wet summer. Like pilgrims they flock, swarm the flowerbed sanctissima\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The prayer-hum of bees,<br \/>\nsunwise, they make sacred rounds,<br \/>\ntheir own holy wells.<\/p>\n<p>(10\/8\/12)<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<p><em>Even with all this crazy weather, flowers are blooming in glorious colours, shapes and scents, irrepressible. Whole galaxies of yellows and reds and oranges that fill the verges, the eyes, the senses\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cue Summer\u2019s Big Bang;<br \/>\nExplosion of yellow blooms:<br \/>\nA hundred bright suns.<\/p>\n<p>(03\/08\/12)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus ca change\u2026what a Summer! Night\u2019s mackerel sky hints at uncertainty. Change, the one constant. (31\/08\/12) ************ This year, even more than usual \u2013 due, no doubt, to the strange weather we\u2019ve been having, the insects are more abundant than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=1439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":492,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-nd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1439\/revisions\/1441"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}