{"id":3004,"date":"2015-02-18T19:38:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2015-02-18T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T19:52:09","slug":"winter-colour-and-light-at-thursley-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/winter-colour-and-light-at-thursley-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Colour and Light at Thursley Common"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Panorama<\/a>
Panorama of Thursley Common bog pools (full image is 7330 x 2245)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On a gloriously sunny, still winter’s day, Thursley Common looked wonderful. There were few signs of wildlife – a Crow or two, some Stonechats hawking for flies from the tops of small bushes – but wide horizons, quiet, a sense of space and freedom.<\/p>\n

\"Swirly<\/a>
Swirly patterns with beetle holes in dead pine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some dead pines displayed magnificent natural patterns, the product of bare wood drilled by Longhorn Beetle larvae and exposed to the elements.<\/p>\n

\"Spiralling<\/a>
Turbulent orange patterns on softening dead pine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We visited Thursley’s thousand-year-old church – the north side of the choir has two small narrow Saxon windows, walled in for centuries. The church, of St Michael and All Angels, was wisely sited by the Saxons on a ridge of the Greensand, high and dry above the boggy moorland.<\/p>\n

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St Michael and All Angels Thursley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We enjoyed the modern glass doors engraved with a Tree of Life which turned out to be a Silver Birch. Among the animals praising God in the glasswork are a soaring, singing Woodlark; a perched Nightingale; a Lizard, a Purple Emperor butterfly, a Common Blue butterfly, and a selection of dragonflies: clearly the local fauna.<\/p>\n

\"Thursley<\/a>
Thursley Church Tree of Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a gloriously sunny, still winter’s day, Thursley Common looked wonderful. There were few signs of wildlife – a Crow or two, some Stonechats hawking for flies from the tops of small bushes – but wide horizons, quiet, a sense of space and freedom. Some dead pines displayed magnificent natural patterns, the product of bare … Continue reading Winter Colour and Light at Thursley Common<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,388,88],"tags":[734,314,313,733],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","category-natural-patterns","category-nature-reserves","tag-longhorn-beetle","tag-stonechat","tag-thursley-common","tag-wood-patterns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}