{"id":746,"date":"2011-03-28T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/2011\/03\/28\/solid-and-fluid\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:50:00","slug":"solid-and-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/2011\/03\/28\/solid-and-fluid\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid and Fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Out walking this morning I arrived at the little stream I somehow always return to when I have no intended destination for my walk. There&#8217;s a magic to this place and today was no different. <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hw-4J9uUeAA\/TY_ESBcEOxI\/AAAAAAAAAD4\/RNcgCYFv7zg\/s1600\/071.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hw-4J9uUeAA\/TY_ESBcEOxI\/AAAAAAAAAD4\/RNcgCYFv7zg\/s200\/071.JPG\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">close up of stream <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sRrkVT24_K4\/TY_EGGfdDYI\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/499iR0WxZ_4\/s1600\/070.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-sRrkVT24_K4\/TY_EGGfdDYI\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/499iR0WxZ_4\/s200\/070.JPG\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">close up of stream\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">These crystals overlaid on the stream were stunning. The combination of the angular ice and the protean stream beneath beautifully illustrates a sensual tension when two states of matter are in close proximity. It is the spaces where the light refracts from the motion of the stream <\/span><i style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">between <\/i><span style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">the angles of the crystals that compelled me initially to take these photographs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">There is poetry as well in the physical properties of water illustrated in the photos. When I think of water I always picture its fluid state &#8211; and seeing the contrast between the liquid and solid forms of water so clearly illustrated reminds me of the many layers of experience and perception that exist &#8211; if I am able to see beyond what I want to see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out walking this morning I arrived at the little stream I somehow always return to when I have no intended&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/2011\/03\/28\/solid-and-fluid\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QAns-c2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}