{"id":3557,"date":"2022-06-27T07:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2022-06-27T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T21:22:43","slug":"altered-horizons-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 58"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the hosta plant that faithfully, magnificently, takes over a good portion of my garden year after year even though I do nothing to help or encourage it. In late summer, if left on its own as it always is, the hosta will sprout tall shoots topped with pale lavender-colored flowers. This is the hosta as photographed in early June before something nibbled its leaves down to bare little stumps. I\u2019m not at all sure what this means for its future. So I decided to memorialize the poor plant, in a fabricated landscape, making it into a golden hill. In Photoshop, I added a picture of the sun reflected in my pond, along with a negative image of tangled straw-like weeds to make an agitated sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Altered Horizons 58<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the hosta plant that faithfully, magnificently, takes over a good portion of my garden year after year even though I do nothing to help or encourage it. In late summer, if left on its own as it always is, the hosta will sprout tall shoots topped with pale lavender-colored flowers. This is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2398,2259,705,2289,2232,2397,2351,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-58","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscape","tag-loss-and-grief","tag-memorializing","tag-therapeutic-photography","tag-upended-life","tag-upside-down-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t