{"id":961,"date":"2013-11-04T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T03:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/11\/04\/131104-fallblooms\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T22:32:05","slug":"131104-fallblooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/11\/04\/131104-fallblooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t yet had a freeze this fall, and the really hot temperatures of summer are finally behind us. The recent rainfall coupled with the mild conditions means that the flowering plants are putting on some wonderful performances.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday I strapped on a macro lens and walked around the yard, snooping on our blooming residents. Here&#8217;s what popped out.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the following photos were taken in natural light, sans flash.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Plumbago &#8211; My Blue Heaven:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/plumbago.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Plumbago blooms\"><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Knockout Rose &#8211; Pillow Soft:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-bottom: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/rose.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Knockout Rose blooms\"><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Dandelion &#8211; Space Travelers, temporarily grounded:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-bottom: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/dandelion.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Dandelion blooms\"><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Ice Plant &#8211; Nature&#8217;s Fireworks:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-bottom: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/iceplant.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Ice Plant blooms\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t yet had a freeze this fall, and the really hot temperatures of summer are finally behind us. The recent rainfall coupled with the mild conditions means that the flowering plants are putting on some wonderful performances. Last Saturday I strapped on a macro lens and walked around the yard, snooping on our blooming&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/11\/04\/131104-fallblooms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall Blooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9516,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/9516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}