{"id":8465,"date":"2018-01-09T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:01:20","slug":"a-springtime-image-when-the-azalea-is-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/a-springtime-image-when-the-azalea-is-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"A springtime image, when the azalea is in bloom."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We painted the garage wall in imitation of a Chinese painting—painted it first in mud—real mud, from the ground—so we could get the feel we wanted, hosed off the bits we didn’t like, then re-did them. <\/p>\n

Then we got a selection of little sample paint pots from Ace Hardware, and started in on a permanent image, incorporating the mud right into the work in some few places, but mostly just operating from the faint trace left after hosing off a section. We finished it with a transparent layer. And it’s a lot nicer than the blank white wall we started with, kind of organic, like the garden. <\/p>\n

The snow-viewing lantern (that’s what they’re called: you can judge the depth of the snow by how much piles up on it, I suppose. We do) was a gift from an early Shejicon, one we light at night on special occasions, and to remember people we’ve lost. It casts a beautiful reflection of light on the pond. We greatly treasure it.<\/p>\n

The bridge stands in a little need of repair, but I know how to do it. The problem stems from my choice of 12×2’s, not knowing that they’re a composite board, not a single piece of wood. It is slowly coming un-composited. We are going to ‘sister’ some plywood to it and repaint, and it will be strong enough to hold several people. Right now, one of us is a risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We painted the garage wall in imitation of a Chinese painting—painted it first in mud—real mud, from the ground—so we could get the feel we wanted, hosed off the bits we didn’t like, then re-did them. Then we got a selection of little sample paint pots from Ace Hardware, and started in on a permanent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}