{"id":2534,"date":"2026-06-20T20:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:32:24","slug":"20-summer-shards-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/20\/20-summer-shards-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#20 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A full day of welcoming friends to see our work, followed by a lingering dinner on the porch with a long discussion of how we see colors, especially the qualities of June sun shafts of blues and greens. The memory of moons in my pots dance with the fireflies as the vast softness of the evening settles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20-summer-shards-2026-879x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20-summer-shards-2026-879x1024.jpg 879w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20-summer-shards-2026-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20-summer-shards-2026-768x895.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20-summer-shards-2026-1318x1536.jpg 1318w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20-summer-shards-2026.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elephant Garlic flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>After Many Springs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, <br>In June,<br>When the night is a vast softness<br>Filled with blue stars,<br>And broken shafts of moon-glimmer<br>Fall upon the earth,<br>Am I too old to see the fairies dance?<br>I cannot find them any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u2014Langston Hughes, from <em>The Weary Blues<\/em>, 1926<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full day of welcoming friends to see our work, followed by a lingering dinner on the porch with a long discussion of how we see colors, especially the qualities of June sun shafts of blues and greens. The memory of moons in my pots dance with the fireflies as the vast softness of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}