{"id":2545,"date":"2026-09-27T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:43:08","slug":"autumn-equinox-a-little-late-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/09\/27\/autumn-equinox-a-little-late-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"autumn equinox (a little late) 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m late posting but I have been thinking about the equinox all week. Today I really felt the shift in light and season. My okra which I mostly grow for their beautiful flowers and sculptural pods lost most of their leaves in the last 24 hours. I harvested the stems and pods and then photographed them. Their thick stems and spreading roots are admirable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-autumn-equinox-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-autumn-equinox-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-autumn-equinox-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-autumn-equinox-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-autumn-equinox.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I dig for wild orchids <br>in the autumn fields,<br>it is the deeply-bedded root<br>that I desire,<br>not the flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Izumi Shikibu<br>In <em>The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan<\/em>, translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani, Penguin Random House, 1990<br><br> &#8220;Izumi Shikibu is recognized as an outstanding poet in Japanese Literature,&#8221; Jane Hirshfield writes. &#8220;She lived in the imperial court during the only golden age in literary history in which women were predominant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m late posting but I have been thinking about the equinox all week. Today I really felt the shift in light and season. My okra which I mostly grow for their beautiful flowers and sculptural pods lost most of their leaves in the last 24 hours. I harvested the stems and pods and then photographed [&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-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}