{"id":26864,"date":"2021-02-28T20:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26864"},"modified":"2021-02-28T20:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:21:55","slug":"golden-evening-walk-by-the-river-thames-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26864","title":{"rendered":"Golden Evening Walk by the River Thames in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21022705.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThis goose has settled down but with its 360 degrees vision is not going to be taken by surprise. I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresheggsdaily.blog\/2019\/11\/all-about-goose-eyesight.html\">on one blog<\/a> that geese can see more colours than us. They have finer sensitivity to green to discriminate the tenderest green grass to nibble.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21022806.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nAs the sun went down the stones of Abingdon Bridge took on a golden \/ honey colour.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21022807.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nReflected in the water it was like liquid gold.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21022706.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nI walked on the other side of the River Thames with views back to St Helen&#8217;s Church, and saw a bunch of blue flowers growing all alone, near the trees. They could be Chinodoxia.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21022809.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Walk\" \/><br \/>\nThe sun set at about 5:45. <\/p>\n<p>There was a little frost this morning at sunrise, but the sky was clear of cloud all day and so lots of people were out walking and enjoying the sunshine. It felt congested in places &#8211; with people and not cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goose has settled down but with its 360 degrees vision is not going to be taken by surprise. I read on one blog that geese can see more colours than us. They have finer sensitivity to green to discriminate the tenderest green grass to nibble. As the sun went down the stones of Abingdon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}