{"id":31873,"date":"2025-12-06T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=31873"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:59:48","slug":"week-48-november-30-december-6-2025-southern-illinois-the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/week-48-november-30-december-6-2025-southern-illinois-the-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 48, November 30 &#8211; December 6, 2025 \u2013 Southern Illinois, the little things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/11\/passing-traffic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2779\" title=\"Passing Traffic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/squares\/CL8725h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/hot-air-balloon\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2779\" title=\"Hot Air Balloon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/squares\/CL8832h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/seasonal-lines\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2779\" title=\"Seasonal Lines\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/squares\/CL8854h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/spring-to-life-in-fall\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2779\" title=\"Spring to Life in Fall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/squares\/CL8856h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/squished-flat\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2779\" title=\"Squished Flat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/squares\/CL8879h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/solar-panels\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2779\" title=\"Solar Panels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/squares\/CL9370h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/tiny-points-of-pink\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2779\" title=\"Tiny Points of Pink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/squares\/CL9849h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">I love photographing mushrooms, and I was looking for mushrooms, but at our first stop I saw the small bush with so many caterpillars! \u00a0When I&#8217;m on a photo walk or trip, I often have to remind myself to stop and smell the roses of sorts; I&#8217;ll be so focussed on the waterfall that I&#8217;m hiking to or the reflections that I miss the other enjoyable elements that are around me &#8230; items like those fern fronds that so delicately extended from a massive stone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stop and smell the roses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,1719],"tags":[8168,8500,8523,8572,6565,6518,331,293,451,306,902,6040,460,8503,163,649,399,123,815,4523,4518,8495,8497,87,8571,8529,14,8498,8502,280,2542,6,5368,305,8457,92,5118,8570,8496,6517,8499,337,80,8569,1768,8127],"class_list":["post-31873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals-insects","category-nature-sunsets","category-weeks","tag-8168","tag-25-10-24","tag-25-10-25","tag-25-10-26","tag-28-200-f2-8-5-6","tag-a7r3","tag-animal","tag-autumn","tag-autumn-colors","tag-blossom","tag-branch","tag-bud","tag-caterpillar","tag-elizabethtown-il","tag-fall","tag-fall-colors","tag-fern","tag-flower","tag-forest","tag-furry","tag-fuzzy","tag-glen-o-jones-lake","tag-glen-o-jones-lake-county-park","tag-green","tag-hebron-il","tag-hills-branch","tag-insect","tag-keithfrenchphotographyworkshops","tag-lake-tecumseh","tag-leaf","tag-log","tag-macro","tag-mushroom","tag-needles","tag-oct25","tag-october","tag-pine-needles","tag-ruam-road-barn","tag-saline-county-il","tag-sony","tag-southern-illinois-2025","tag-stream","tag-water","tag-week-48-2025","tag-weeks-2","tag-weeks-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31987,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873\/revisions\/31987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}