{"id":296,"date":"2010-04-08T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:07:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:07:42","slug":"ive-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cherryblossoms.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cherryblossoms-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457558177618070050\" \/><\/a><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">looking at cherry blossoms as a bumblebee might<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">divining the cryptic patterns of moths<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">wandering along creeks<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/snake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/snake-300x185.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457556732563173250\" \/><\/a><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">practising my snake-charming skills*<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">resisting the urge to walk barefoot among the violets and bluets<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">letting the sun kiss my shoulders<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/littlegrandcanyon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/littlegrandcanyon-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457552295534719650\" \/><\/a><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">imagining a visit to the Grand Canyon and deciding other places call to me more<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">watching bats weave their twilight magic across Venus and a sinking Orion<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">debating my future<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cargraveyard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cargraveyard-300x185.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457559618678081058\" \/><\/a><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">feeling like the fifth wheel on a car gone crazily off course<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">cheering for a rookie<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">muddying my bare feet to save my shoes<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dogwoodskywitheagles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dogwoodskywitheagles-211x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457545144531705138\" \/><\/a><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">discovering a pair of eagles soaring among dogwood flowers<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">hyperventilating on a train trestle <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span  style=\" ;font-size:small;\">the scope&#8217;s okay despite its crazy cartwheel into the river below!<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">eating <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S'more\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">s&#8217;mores<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/treetops.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/treetops-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457550135234541986\" \/><\/a><span  style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">watching Spring spread across the treetops<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p>Anything fun for you lately?<\/p>\n<p>*If someone can help on the snake, I&#8217;d appreciate it&#8230; it tried very hard to convince silly me that it was a fierce rattlesnake, using its tail to rattle the dried leaves (and the worried man standing behind me.)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>looking at cherry blossoms as a bumblebee might divining the cryptic patterns of moths wandering along creeks practising my snake-charming skills* resisting the urge to walk barefoot among the violets and bluets letting the sun kiss my shoulders imagining a visit to the Grand Canyon and deciding other places call to me more watching bats &hellip; 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