{"id":340,"date":"2009-05-13T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2009\/05\/mid-may-sunsets\/"},"modified":"2009-05-13T03:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T03:27:00","slug":"mid-may-sunsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2009\/05\/mid-may-sunsets.html","title":{"rendered":"Mid-May Sunsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SgoxTSGGRiI\/AAAAAAAAAdg\/-wYZSuplrPc\/s1600-h\/IMG_0083.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 230px\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SgoxTSGGRiI\/AAAAAAAAAdg\/-wYZSuplrPc\/s400\/IMG_0083.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Sunday<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SgoxTmMCU0I\/AAAAAAAAAdo\/j8UvHfTo5mU\/s1600-h\/IMG_0109.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SgoxTmMCU0I\/AAAAAAAAAdo\/j8UvHfTo5mU\/s400\/IMG_0109.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Monday<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SgoxT6mJK4I\/AAAAAAAAAdw\/jyP_SBxQa50\/s1600-h\/IMG_0131.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 162px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_fyeYpxfdjuI\/SgoxT6mJK4I\/AAAAAAAAAdw\/jyP_SBxQa50\/s400\/IMG_0131.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Tuesday\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">My time living with Julie is soon coming to a close, and while I know that my move in with a friend and fellow grad student will do wonders for my thesis work, one of the many (many!) things I\u2019ll miss about living out here will be our evening walks and camera-grabbing as the sun nears the horizon each night.\n<p>The weather this May has been weird, but I suppose that\u2019s normal for Montana \u2013 if that makes sense.  We\u2019ve been hailed on a couple times (including today), warmed up, then got snow, then rain, then more sun, and now\u2026 who knows.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was unusually wet and cool, making for a lovely July and August.  No scorching heat = no wildfires = no smoke in the valleys.  Given the last 5-10 years though and all that stuff Al Gore went on about in \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth,\u201d last year was a fluke.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Either way, nature\u2019s changing seasons give us opportunity to pause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okay, done pausing.  Back to work.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-8915802344964644957?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Monday Tuesday My time living with Julie is soon coming to a close, and while I know that my move in with a friend and fellow grad student will do wonders for my thesis work, one of the many (many!) things I\u2019ll miss about living out here will be our evening walks and camera-grabbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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