{"id":1478,"date":"2010-04-28T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2015-12-27T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T05:54:10","slug":"koi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/04\/koi\/","title":{"rendered":"Koi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I missed the fish floundering at the Koi sell-off at the National Arboretum. I would have been there had I owned a backyard pond, like I always wanted. I love these<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/15\/AR2010041505615.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"National Arboretum Sell Off article by Petula Dvorak, WP\"> koi <\/a>and absolutely had no idea that collecting and selling them due to overcrowding was an annual event. They even caught &quot;Big Mama&quot; one of the oldest and largest, three feet long. That must have been that shark-like fish, as the wave rolled by, that scared you from getting too close to the edge. Here&#39;s my previous post on the koi and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=150\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Previous post on National Arboretum\"><em>Reflection on the Arboretum<\/em><\/a>, one of my favorite places I think these koi can be quite colorful (from a picture I took a while ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/koi6019b.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155 aligncenter\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/koi6019b.JPG\" title=\"Koi @ National Arboretum by C. Ashley Spencer\" width=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The colorful ripples in the water remind me of a site I came across within one of my Interior Design Linkedin groups called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelacameron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Angela Cameron \/ Fine Art Photography\">Angela Cameron\/Fine Art<\/a> for interior spaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelacameron.com\/gallery\/water-abstract\/orange\/orange-and-green-20-0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Angela Cameron - water abstract\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"orange-and-green-20-copyright-angela-cameron\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1479\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/orange-and-green-20-c2a9-angela-cameron.png\" title=\"orange-and-green-20-copyright-angela-cameron\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/orange-and-green-20-c2a9-angela-cameron.png 654w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/orange-and-green-20-c2a9-angela-cameron-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#39;m partial to green and blue myself so liked this one in the <em>Artistic<\/em> series:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelacameron.com\/gallery\/water-abstract\/artistic\/water-abstract-191\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Angela Cameron - water abstract\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"water-abstract-191-copyright by angela-cameron\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/water-abstract-191-angela-cameron.png\" title=\"water-abstract-191-copyright by angela-cameron\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/water-abstract-191-angela-cameron.png 663w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/water-abstract-191-angela-cameron-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And this one reminded me of a photo I took while visiting Block Island, RI during one of our summer, family vacations:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);\">NOTE: Fortunately, I had written this post before my latest blog problems first mentioned in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1482\"> my last post<\/a>. I wanted to upload a family photo here but I cannot. I&#39;m still having problems posting photos. At least I can write and edit posts with a better editing program that I uploaded (another 4 hours)&nbsp; but I&#39;m still working to get my image uploader fixed. UGH!<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#39;s Angela Cameron&#39;s Zen take on lily pads:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelacameron.com\/gallery\/zen\/organic\/lily-pads55\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Angela Cameron - lily pads\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lily-pads-55-copyright-angela-cameron\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1481\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/04\/lily-pads-55-by-angela-cameron.png\" title=\"lily-pads-55-copyright-angela-cameron\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lily-pads-55-by-angela-cameron.png 656w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lily-pads-55-by-angela-cameron-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I missed the fish floundering at the Koi sell-off at the National Arboretum. I would have been there had I owned a backyard pond, like I always wanted. I love these koi and absolutely had no idea that collecting and selling them due to overcrowding was an annual event. They even caught &quot;Big Mama&quot; one of the oldest and largest, three feet long. That must have been that shark-like fish, as the wave rolled by, that scared you from getting too close to the edge. Here&#39;s my previous post on the koi and Reflection on the Arboretum, one of my favorite places I think these koi can be quite colorful (from a picture I took a while ago: The colorful ripples in the water remind me of a site I came across within one of my Interior Design Linkedin groups called Angela Cameron\/Fine Art for interior spaces. I&#39;m partial to green and blue myself so liked this one in the Artistic series: And this one reminded me of a photo I took while visiting Block Island, RI during one of our summer, family vacations: NOTE: Fortunately, I had written this post before my latest blog problems first mentioned in my last post. I wanted to upload a family photo here but I cannot. I&#39;m still having problems posting photos. At least I can write and edit posts with a better editing program that I uploaded (another 4 hours)&nbsp; but I&#39;m still working to get my image uploader fixed. UGH!. And here&#39;s Angela Cameron&#39;s Zen take on lily pads:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,64,82],"tags":[1277,1276,1237,1274,1278,1275],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-nature","category-photography","tag-abstract-water-photography","tag-angela-cameron","tag-fish","tag-koi","tag-lily-pad","tag-national-arboretum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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