{"id":4188,"date":"2017-10-29T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2017-11-17T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:49:04","slug":"moments-of-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/moments-of-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Moments of Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about having a cell phone is that a camera is always with me. Perhaps not as versatile as my regular camera with it&#8217;s interchangeable lenses but the important thing is that it&#8217;s there. Whenever I&#8217;m walking or wandering about and see amazing pattern or colors I can take them home with me and they end up in my work.  Lots of times we might be on a road trip or other planned event and I take my camera and sometimes images happen and sometimes they don&#8217;t but my cell is always with me capturing serendipitous unplanned moments of wonder. Here are a few from this summer. Some from Colorado, some from New England, some from walks in the Wissahickon here at home in Philadelphia. <br \/>\n[Click image for larger view.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire1.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Twisted Bark\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire1.jpg\" alt=\"Image of twisted bark\" width=\"\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire2.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Love the colors of these rocks - the greens, the yellows, the purples!\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire2.jpg\" alt=\"Image of rocks with greens and purples.\" width=\"\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire3.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Curved Rocks\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire3.jpg\" alt=\"Image of curved rocks\" width=\"\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire4.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bright Orange Bark\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire4.jpg\" alt=\"Image of bright orange bark\" width=\"\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire5.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rebecca said this was probably caused by an animal rubbing against it!\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire5.jpg\" alt=\"Image of torn bark.\" width=\"\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire6.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A river of texture in this bark\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/inspire\/inspire6.jpg\" alt=\"Image of textured Bark\" width=\"\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The textures and colors can keep me busy sketching and drawing for days, weeks, and much longer as my head swims with ideas for paint and fiber translations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about having a cell phone is that a camera is always with me. Perhaps not as versatile as my regular camera with it&#8217;s interchangeable lenses but the important thing is that it&#8217;s there. Whenever I&#8217;m walking or wandering about and see amazing pattern or colors I can take them home&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/moments-of-wonder\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,277,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-photography","category-wissohicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}