{"id":6696,"date":"2013-06-30T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2013-06-30T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:00:33","slug":"our-first-week-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/our-first-week-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Week of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SonoranThis last week, we experienced the hottest temperatures since living here and, in fact, some areas set new records! Before you feel sorry for us, though, know that although we would prefer it not get this hot, we all know how to deal with the heat. We all have air conditioned homes and cars and businesses are air conditioned so it is easy to escape. Also, because it is so dry here, even the smallest amount of shade can offer a little relief. You can tell who are locals because they are the ones standing in the shade of ANYTHING.<\/p>\n

Some of us don’t give a second thought to the extreme heat because we LOVE living here! What we do instead is change our routine. For me, that means a “summer-time” schedule. Very early to bed and very early to rise. I go to bed at 8pm and I’m up at 4am. The mornings are more than tolerable so I can still garden and hike during the summer but I start at 4:30am. Our favorite hiking trails are just minutes from home and at higher elevation which allows for a couple of hours of exercise before it gets too hot.<\/p>\n

This blog post features images from Sunday June 23rd through Sunday June 30th and will give you a glimpse of how I spent my time during this hot week.<\/p>\n

\"Echinopsis<\/a>

June 23rd – Surprised by an Echinopsis Bloom in my garden.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Prickly<\/a>

June 23 – Prickly Pear fruit is ripening in my garden<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Super<\/a>

June 24 – Super Moon setting over Browns Mountain<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hiking<\/a>

June 24 – Hiking on Browns Mountain<\/p><\/div>\n

June 25 and 26 – Spent time compiling images for photo books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Granite<\/a>

June 27th – Sun Spots give me an idea for an Alien Post!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aliens<\/a>

June 27th – Some Photoshop Magic turns my sun spotted sunrise into an Alien image<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sonoran<\/a>

June 27 – Encounter a Sonoran Whiptail after sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Granite<\/a>

June 27 – Discovered a granite Thunderbird farther down the trail<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Queen<\/a>

June 27th – When I got home, I discovered a Queen Chrysalis in one of my gardens!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hedgehog<\/a>

June 28 -Another surprise bloom in my garden. This is a Hybrid Hedgehog<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Queen<\/a>

June 28th – Discover 4 Queen caterpillars on a single Desert Milkweed and decided to give them some shade<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aristolochia<\/a>

June 29 – Discovered a bloom on my recently planted Pipevine!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Granite<\/a>

June 30 – Another sunrise as seen from Granite Mountain.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Saguaro<\/a>

June 30 – Saguaros at Sunrise seen from Granite Mountain<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This last week, we experienced the hottest temperatures since living here and, in fact, some areas set new records! Before you feel sorry for us, though, know that although we would prefer it not get this hot, we all know how to deal with the heat. We all have air conditioned homes and cars and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,29,65,4,88,28,7,58,57,173],"tags":[956,949,961,461,184,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}