{"id":362,"date":"2012-11-11T18:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joncu.roguenet.org\/swissblog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:48:36","slug":"the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/2012\/11\/11\/the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-really\/","title":{"rendered":"The hills are alive with the sound of music, REALLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dove gray and drippy skies could not stop us.\u00a0 It\u2019s a stay-at-home weekend but I wanted at least a walk in the woods.\u00a0 So we headed into our forest.\u00a0 The colors this fall have amazed us.\u00a0 Such a mixed variety of trees and shrubs means nearly every day brings a change.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been watching the transformations for 2 months and it\u2019s not over.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_827\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"size-full wp-image-827\" title=\"Neighbor's maple\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2585.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbor's maple\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2585.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2585-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbor&#039;s maple glows red, southeast from our balcony Oct. 16<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_828\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF26671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-828\" class=\"size-full wp-image-828\" title=\"Neighbor's gold tree\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF26671.jpg\" alt=\"Southwest from our balcony Oct. 22\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF26671.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF26671-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbor&#039;s tree glows gold, southwest from our balcony Oct. 22<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_829\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"size-full wp-image-829\" title=\"Our forest, from our back window\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2951.jpg\" alt=\"Our forest, from our back window\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2951.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/DSCF2951-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our forest, northeast from our back window Nov. 7<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_830\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/IMG_4336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-830\" class=\"size-full wp-image-830\" title=\"Our forest Nov. 6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/IMG_4336.jpg\" alt=\"Our forest Nov. 6\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/IMG_4336.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/IMG_4336-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our forest Nov. 6<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We kept heading uphill until there was no more up to be had.\u00a0 Then we circled (by mistake) the top.\u00a0 As we found our path homeward, we heard it.\u00a0 Across a valley from the next hillside:\u00a0 a gently played alpenhorn.\u00a0 With its quiet music accompanying us, we made our way down. It was like a gnome-home, fairy-forest landscape with the perfect Swiss soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>Just for contrast, as we passed a\u00a0shop near our apartment, we heard Hank Williams singing \u201cMove It On Over\u201d.\u00a0 Such a small world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dove gray and drippy skies could not stop us.\u00a0 It\u2019s a stay-at-home weekend but I wanted at least a walk in the woods.\u00a0 So we headed into our forest.\u00a0 The colors this fall have amazed us.\u00a0 Such a mixed variety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/2012\/11\/11\/the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-really\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}