{"id":34674,"date":"2025-11-30T21:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34674"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:35:45","slug":"albert-park-through-the-year-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34674","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park Through the Year: November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113079.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the stranger sights\u00a0 was the glow of lights behind\u00a0the Albert Monument, like a scene from a science-fiction film. These were laser tests ahead of the firework display at Dalton Barracks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNovember began mild, but by the end of the first week most deciduous trees had already lost their leaves, helped along by shorter days, wind and rain. Some trees were bare, others had a few leaves left.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113058.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe noble oaks however still held their leaves right up to the end of November, after several frosts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113036.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere were several frosty mornings after the middle of the month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113077.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe sun rise on a frosty day is beautiful whether or not anybody is there to enjoy it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113073.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA mini-tractor makes its early-morning rounds, emptying bins, leaving tracks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113072.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe low winter sun casts long shadows from the Albert Monument and from the bare trees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113049.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfter a frosty night, there is often a sunny day. Albert Park is a popular walk all year round. The November sun attracts not just the dog walkers and joggers, but walkers without dogs making the most of the semicircle of paths.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113041.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWith the branches bare, birds are easier to spot as they sing or flit from tree to tree.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025113048.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHolly berries and the yew cups stand out after other colours fade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the stranger sights\u00a0 was the glow of lights behind\u00a0the Albert Monument, like a scene from a science-fiction film. These were laser tests ahead of the firework display at Dalton Barracks. November began mild, but by the end of the first week most deciduous trees had already lost their leaves, helped along by shorter [&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-34674","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\/34674","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=34674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}