{"id":19986,"date":"2017-02-24T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2017-02-24T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T03:57:11","slug":"friday-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/02\/friday-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I could have had this up sooner, but let&#8217;s be real<strong>:<\/strong> there aren&#8217;t that many people checking in routinely to see what&#8217;s being posted anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BartlettBlue.jpg\" alt=\"possibly cherry blossoms, I don&#039;t know, white against a blue sky, okay?\" width=\"730\" height=\"1238\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19987\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The Girlfriend tells me these are cherry blossoms, so we&#8217;ll go with that since I&#8217;m not knowledgeable enough to tell otherwise. They&#8217;re the first of the trees in bloom in the immediate area, and everyone feels this is pretty early, rivaling the daffodils. But it was nice out today and I managed to do a few shots here and there, even though overall it&#8217;s still wintry-looking<strong>;<\/strong> the almond tree in the yard is just starting to bud, and the rose bush is kicking out a good number of leaves, but nearly everything else still looks bare.<\/p>\n<p>The Canada geese (<em>Branta canadensis<\/em>) were cavorting in apparent recognition of the unseasonably warm weather.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CrazyGeese.jpg\" alt=\"Canada geese Branta canadensis splashing about\" width=\"730\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19988\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This looks like a composite even to <em>me<\/em>, but it&#8217;s simply one frame where several geese just happened to act at once. There was a lot of activity going on, short take-off runs only to plunge back into the water 20 meters away, sometimes disappearing entirely under the water. Maybe there were some localized gravity fluctuations happening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I could have had this up sooner, but let&#8217;s be real: there aren&#8217;t that many people checking in routinely to see what&#8217;s being posted anyway. The Girlfriend tells me these are cherry blossoms, so we&#8217;ll go with that since I&#8217;m not knowledgeable enough to tell otherwise. They&#8217;re the first of the trees in bloom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2796,2795,2274,3441],"class_list":["post-19986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-branta-canadensis","tag-canada-goose","tag-cherry-blossom","tag-maybe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}