{"id":709,"date":"2009-11-12T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=709"},"modified":"2009-11-12T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T07:02:37","slug":"japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Garden, Washington Park Arboretum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/parkspaces\/japanesegarden.htm\">Japanese Garden<\/a><\/strong> in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/wpa\/index.htm\">Washington Park Arboretum<\/a><\/strong>, 1075 Lake Washington Blvd. E.,  Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning: These photos didn&#8217;t turn out as well as I would have liked. I was using The Boyfriend (TB)&#8217;s camera, and I&#8217;m not familiar with it, so maybe some of the settings were incorrect. Also, the pictures were taken late  on an overcast, yet still somehow sunny, fall afternoon. In photos where the sky is visible, it looks blown out (i.e., too light), the landscape looks shaded and off-color, and edges and finer details are blurry \u2013 which is weird because TB&#8217;s camera has image stabilization.  All of these things combined made for some eerie \u2013 and sometimes really cool \u2013 contrast and coloration.<\/p>\n<p>From the parking area:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1334\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_00.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_00-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buildings and other structures:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1335\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_01.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_01-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1336\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1336\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1337\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1337\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1338\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1338\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1339\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1339\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1340\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The garden in the fall &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1341\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_04.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_04-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1342\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1342\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1343\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1343\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1344\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1344\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1345\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1345\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1346\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_22.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_22-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1347\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1347\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1348\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1348\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1349\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1349\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1350\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads.old\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and the promise of spring to come:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2009\/11\/12\/japanese-garden-washington-park-arboretum\/attachment\/1351\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_19.jpg 400w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Japanese_Garden_19-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum, 1075 Lake Washington Blvd. E., Seattle. Fair warning: These photos didn&#8217;t turn out as well as I would have liked. I was using The Boyfriend (TB)&#8217;s camera, and I&#8217;m not familiar with it, so maybe some of the settings were incorrect. Also, the pictures were taken late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-garden","category-seattle-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}