{"id":1594,"date":"2024-02-02T22:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T22:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2024-08-10T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T21:42:01","slug":"mud-along-minihaha-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/2024\/02\/02\/mud-along-minihaha-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Along Minihaha Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-purple-color\">2 February 2024<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I took my usual run along Minihaha Creek.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are in the midst of an unusual warm spell. It is not unusual to have a few days of above-freezing weather in January \u2013 enough to melt the top layer of snow and ensure that in a few days everything will be a sheet of ice through Februrary \u2013 but this is different. It reached the fifties yesterday, and came close to that today. Almost all the little snow that we\u2019ve gotten is gone. The brown grass is showing hints of green, and the bare trees have visible buds visible. Any more of this warmth and bulbs will sprout and buds will burst, and then cold will return and kill them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas normally I have to be careful of snow and ice on my runs, now I have to be careful of mud. I ran early enough today that it was still half-frozen, it gave beneath my feet but was not melted enough to be slippery, except in sunny spots. It\u2019s interesting to look at. The trails, like palimpsests, show the traces of their users. Here is a cyclist, weaving along on thin tires. Here is someone walking their dog. Here is a cyclist on one of those fat tire bikes. And here, in a warm place, it appears that a racoon crossed the path last night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Muddy-Path-Minihaha-2Feb2024-small_0208.png\" alt=\"A closeup of a mud path showing overlapping prints of running shoes, bicycle tires, and dog-paws.\n\" class=\"wp-image-1595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Muddy-Path-Minihaha-2Feb2024-small_0208.png 950w, https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Muddy-Path-Minihaha-2Feb2024-small_0208-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Muddy-Path-Minihaha-2Feb2024-small_0208-768x583.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The creek has open water in the middle, and ducks navigate it, or sit, carefully spaced out, on the ice ledges that project out from the creek\u2019s banks. Where there is ice, it has clearly melted and frozen many times. Much of it is an opaque white, due to the repeated freezing. In other places, where the ice is thinner, the surface has become rough, with ridges and peaks formed by the re-freezing. These catch the low morning light, and the miniature peaks glitter across the shelved surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 13<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 February 2024 Today I took my usual run along Minihaha Creek.&nbsp; We are in the midst of an unusual warm spell. It is not unusual to have a few days of above-freezing weather in January \u2013 enough to melt the top layer of snow and ensure that in a few days everything will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/2024\/02\/02\/mud-along-minihaha-creek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mud Along Minihaha Creek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily_entry","category-has-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}