{"id":4369,"date":"2009-03-08T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2009-03-08T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T15:53:09","slug":"early-march-not-quite-flower-pr0n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/4369","title":{"rendered":"Early March Not Quite Flower Pr0n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 70 yesterday, so we raked the flower beds and now I can see the earliest bulbs starting to come up. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Michael got me a macro lense for my digital camera for Christmas (that just came a few weeks ago), so I was able to really try out the lens for the first time yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>What did I think? I think I&#8217;m starting to want an SLR. I really liked the pictures I got, but focusing wasn&#8217;t always the easiest thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>(If you click through on any of the pictures, there are a couple additional pictures in my Flick account.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3337381889\/\" title=\"8_March_2009_0007 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3413\/3337381889_0e060b2cf2.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"8_March_2009_0007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the front bed after being raked. (For a reminder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/2678907550\/in\/set-72157605089095436\/\">here&#8217;s how the bed looked last July<\/a>.) Michael wanted to make sure I got a picture of him working.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3338192922\/\" title=\"8_March_2009_0005 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3398\/3338192922_3d55c6ceea.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"8_March_2009_0005\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first flower of spring: the pussy willows are blooming. I cut a bunch of stems and they&#8217;re now sitting in a vase by Grandmom&#8217;s chair in the living room.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3337434405\/\" title=\"8_March_2009_0012 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3361\/3337434405_e4c76f7bed.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"8_March_2009_0012\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3337333041\/\" title=\"8_March_2009_0002 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3365\/3337333041_cb9912bea7.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"8_March_2009_0002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3337413803\/\" title=\"8_March_2009_0010 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3623\/3337413803_6c57688c69.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"8_March_2009_0010\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3338254118\/\" title=\"8_March_2009_0011 by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3357\/3338254118_89011d9e39.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"8_March_2009_0011\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 70 yesterday, so we raked the flower beds and now I can see the earliest bulbs starting to come up. Additionally, Michael got me a macro lense for my digital camera for Christmas (that just came a few weeks ago), so I was able to really try out the lens for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1072,4,22],"tags":[475,19,474,473],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-house-garden","category-photos","tag-early-spring-flowers","tag-flower-pr0n","tag-pussy-willows","tag-spring-bulbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-18t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}