{"id":4144,"date":"2016-02-17T20:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T05:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2016-02-17T20:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T05:57:22","slug":"flowers-on-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"Flowers on Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau is a gold mining town. <a href=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-4140 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA070-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WA070\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA070-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA070-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/WA070.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Every where you turn, you find remnants of the placer and hard-rock mining. South of Juneau, a pier stand abandoned in the water. Its pilings are bleached and trees grow from its surface. On the shore stand the pillars which supported the rail-line out to the pier.<\/p>\n<p>When it was a working facility, the ships from Seattle would dock here in <em>Dupont<\/em> to offload their cargo of dynamite. It would be trundled down the rail-line to an elevated warehouse along the shore. From there, smaller loads would be transported by boat to the mines in Treadwell, Douglas, and Juneau.<\/p>\n<p>Excepting the iron bits, the pier, dock, and warehouse were built from local materials. This image may be better named, <em>Flowers From Stone<\/em>, as the concrete is covered with the <span class=\"st\">efflorescence from the beach sand and gravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I tried to set the focus and aperture to let the distant pier fall out of focus. I think I could have opened the aperture a bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau is a gold mining town. Every where you turn, you find remnants of the placer and hard-rock mining. South of Juneau, a pier stand abandoned in the water. Its pilings are bleached and trees grow from its surface. On the shore stand the pillars which supported the rail-line out to the pier. When it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[522,76],"tags":[523,8,125,124],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a29","category-folioa","tag-dupont","tag-john-thurston","tag-juneau","tag-tl120-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}