{"id":338,"date":"2015-03-24T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-03-24T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T05:08:19","slug":"rest-and-recharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Rest and Recharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was spent at our cabin in the Sierra; we were lucky enough to be able to purchase it nearly 15 years ago (where does the time go?) and it&#8217;s been a welcome refuge from the bustle and mania of Silicon Valley ever since. \u00a0We originally bought it for access to the snow, but I&#8217;ve come to realize that I love it more when there isn&#8217;t snow on the ground. \u00a0This year, there&#8217;s no snow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherwest.com\/archives\/2995\">for all the wrong reasons<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that we can&#8217;t enjoy what&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>A walk through the North Grove at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=551\">Big Trees State Park<\/a>\u00a0was full of texture<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-phCR6OX2lEU\/VQ9YW_9FENI\/AAAAAAAAILc\/GlWm9hXZc5A\/s512\/IMG_20150322_143217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and color<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-WDA9jIENRP0\/VQ9dzycvhwI\/AAAAAAAAIMw\/3eWZ_MLeMZk\/s512\/IMG_20150322_144403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-jnDyNSfauAk\/VQ9d-WJze0I\/AAAAAAAAINw\/KXx0YnudMEw\/s512\/IMG_20150322_152745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scale went from large<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-8R1x_HOBch8\/VQ9WjunB5bI\/AAAAAAAAISE\/KshE9fdofmA\/s512\/IMG_20150322_141548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to small.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-5ZDr-cgNJhM\/VQ9ggDzTpQI\/AAAAAAAAIPs\/YI8we56wfww\/s640\/IMG_20150322_153221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0the forest made sure we didn&#8217;t miss the important things<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-x5YUVCqso9M\/VQ9d6QJ_I1I\/AAAAAAAAINU\/sxaLAhsqfoM\/s512\/IMG_20150322_145726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now home and back in another familiar forest. \u00a0Recharged both physically and mentally &#8211; ready to get back to work. \u00a0If only my elbow healed as fast as my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was spent at our cabin in the Sierra; we were lucky enough to be able to purchase it nearly 15 years ago (where does the time go?) and it&#8217;s been a welcome refuge from the bustle and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}