{"id":8786,"date":"2011-11-14T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:13:13","slug":"the-angst-of-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=8786","title":{"rendered":"The angst of November&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree2-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320px\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tree2-1.jpg\" width=\"208px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nThis photo is for the heading &#8220;November&#8221; in the photo scavenger hunt that I am in.&nbsp; There is something almost painful about November.&nbsp; I see it in the trees and the sky.&nbsp; The trees are spare and the sky broods. The melancholy is visceral.<\/p>\n<p>How do you capture this feeling in art? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&amp;q=ansel+adams&amp;rlz=1W1ADFA_enCA454&amp;gs_sm=c&amp;gs_upl=1219l5672l0l10000l6l6l0l0l0l0l265l1264l0.3.3l6l0&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&amp;biw=1083&amp;bih=523&amp;wrapid=tlif132121587499010&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi\">Ansel Adams<\/a>&nbsp;has done it in photography. Again, I wonder if I can do it in lace. But who would wear a grey scarf?&nbsp; and when and where would you wear it?&nbsp; If life is a celebration, why would you choose grey?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we were at the Brickworks and there were 2 wedding parties there.&nbsp; In one the bridesmaids wore deep plum dresses with lime green shawls. In the second wedding party the bridesmaids wore grey. Both are interesting &#8220;takes&#8221; on the colours for November.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow&nbsp; we relate to this sombre mood.&nbsp;&nbsp;Most of&nbsp;the great novels, plays and movies seem to be about tragedy.&nbsp; I am feeling a need to re-read &#8220;Wuthering Heights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess&nbsp;I just&nbsp;have to bake a chocolate cake.&nbsp; Now chocolate is brown &#8211; another sombre colour &#8211; but I don&#8217;t hear anyone complaining. That&#8217;s it &#8211; chocolate cake with chocolate icing, decorated with &#8220;Smarties&#8221; &#8211; bring on November!!<\/p>\n<p>Have a richly coloured day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is for the heading &#8220;November&#8221; in the photo scavenger hunt that I am in.&nbsp; There is something almost painful about November.&nbsp; I see it in the trees and the sky.&nbsp; The trees are spare and the sky broods. The melancholy is visceral. How do you capture this feeling in art? Ansel Adams&nbsp;has done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8787,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}