{"id":34188,"date":"2025-08-31T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34188"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:22:11","slug":"albert-park-through-the-year-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34188","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park Through the Year: August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083116.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe last day of August brought a mix of sunshine and showers, marking the end of a month that began dry and finished with rain. This Rowan with leaves turning yellow and brown, and berries, shows autumn\u2019s on the way.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083143.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFlowers were scarce in August. Only in the last couple of days has the first autumn crocus appeared.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083106.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNuts are plentiful this year, and acorns have been falling from the oak trees since early August.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083137a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA squirrel climbs here among the beech leaves to gather beech masts \u2013 though one wonders whether the harvest has arrived too early to last through autumn and winter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083129a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOther trees display their seeds. The wonderfully twisted Golden Rain tree next to the Albert Monument is covered with bladdery seed pods.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAmong the newly planted trees, a young Dawn Redwood, dedicated to a former park keeper, is struggling; its browned leaves stand in contrast to the other more healthy newly planted trees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083136a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Bowls Club has been active throughout the summer. The green is so fine \u2013 like felt on a snooker table.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA rainbow appeared yesterday, seen here from the park looking out toward Trinity Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHere is a sunrise with pink clouds showing one of the park&#8217;s broad paths and the many trees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025083138.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAs evening came, crows gathered near the tops of the tall fir trees, cawing loudly to announce their arrival at their roosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of August brought a mix of sunshine and showers, marking the end of a month that began dry and finished with rain. This Rowan with leaves turning yellow and brown, and berries, shows autumn\u2019s on the way. Flowers were scarce in August. Only in the last couple of days has the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albert-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188","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=34188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}