{"id":4516,"date":"2012-10-12T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T22:24:38","slug":"colors-reflections-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"COLORS AND REFLECTIONS OF THE BERKSHIRES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4516 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147887.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147887-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147887-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147887-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147935.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147935-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147935-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/berkshires-10-10-12-147935-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brimfield-10-10-12-147962.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brimfield-10-10-12-147962-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brimfield-10-10-12-147962-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brimfield-10-10-12-147962-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/route-20-10-11-12-148429.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/route-20-10-11-12-148429-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/route-20-10-11-12-148429-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/route-20-10-11-12-148429-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The colors of Fall must be one of the compensations of impending winter, the ever shortening days. The myth of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persephone\">Persephone<\/a>, like all the myths is an ambiguous story of sadness and joy.<\/p>\n<p>There are some very practical events that must occur to have brilliant colors. Plenty of rain mixed with sun in the summer in order to have rich leaves. A brisk cooling to kill the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chlorophyll\">chlorophyll<\/a>, then cool dry weather thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The rain was pouring down all day followed by strong wind, which blew most of the leaves off the trees.Not the best leaf peeping season. but a pleasure non-the-less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The colors of Fall must be one of the compensations of impending winter, the ever shortening days. The myth of Persephone, like all the myths is an ambiguous story of sadness and joy. There are some very practical events that must occur to have brilliant colors. Plenty of rain mixed with sun in the summer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=4516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COLORS AND REFLECTIONS OF THE BERKSHIRES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1474],"tags":[1472],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkshires","tag-berkshire-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}