{"id":262,"date":"2005-10-12T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/10\/12\/tucson-sky-mosaic\/"},"modified":"2006-04-17T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T04:12:10","slug":"tucson-sky-mosaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/10\/12\/tucson-sky-mosaic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Sky Mosaic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona is known for it&#8217;s glorious sunsets, and that may be the reason that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netstate.com\/states\/symb\/flags\/az_flag.htm\">Arizona State Flag<\/a> includes the stylized rays of a setting sun. I&#8217;m always fascinated and awed by the variety of colors, both vivid and subtle, the sky can assume.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/October\/Tucson-sky-mosaic.jpg\" alt=\"Mosaic of Tucson, Arizona skies\" width=\"480\" height=\"450\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one color that is least represented in the sky is green. I have only seen greenish skies a few times, and they have mostly been the heavy, churning, sickly yellow-greenish clouds of an imminent severe thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p>The one time that I did see truly beautiful green clouds was one deep winter morning in Virginia after an overnight ice storm. I awakened at dawn to see a half ruby red and half emerald green sun rising through the misty, red and green-tinged ice clouds. I quickly grabbed my Pentax camera to get that picture of a lifetime, only to discover that my dad had been playing with the camera settings and they were all wrong. By the time I had fixed everything, the sun and ice clouds were back to their normal colors and the ice-coated trees were glittering in the yellow sunlight. Oh well, I couldn&#8217;t really be upset with my dad because he had just bought me the Pentax, my very first camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona is known for it&#8217;s glorious sunsets, and that may be the reason that the Arizona State Flag includes the stylized rays of a setting sun. I&#8217;m always fascinated and awed by the variety of colors, both vivid and subtle, the sky can assume. The one color that is least represented in the sky is&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/10\/12\/tucson-sky-mosaic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-weather-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}