{"id":25710,"date":"2020-03-31T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=25710"},"modified":"2020-03-30T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:56:12","slug":"march-timeses-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/03\/march-timeses-on\/","title":{"rendered":"March timeses on"},"content":{"rendered":"

… or something like that. It’s end-of-month abstract time, is what I’m saying.<\/p>\n

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Our abstract here is a great blue heron (Ardea herodias<\/em>) that I’d waited until the light was bad so the shutter would drag, and captured it on takeoff – this was all carefully planned<\/em> to appear like impressionist brush strokes, y’ see. Really.<\/p>\n

And another, because I got two that I liked in March. Well, felt appropriate for the purpose, anyway. I wouldn’t describe myself as ecstatic<\/em>, per se.<\/p>\n

\"tiny
During the productive botanical garden trip<\/a>, I saw this tiny lily pad in a raised pond, surrounded by bubbles and sporting its own centerpiece of a water drop encapsulating pine pollen. I can’t say if it was the pollen that kept the bubbles intact up against the leaf, or if there was something else in the water affecting the viscosity, but I don’t need to understand it to take pichers of it (good thing, too.) It’s impossible to avoid having pollen in photos this time of year, so I embrace it. Cursingly, of course, kind of a reluctant embrace of a hated relative, carefully timed to be the minimum to prevent offense, teeth bared in an obviously-fake smile that no one dares call out, but embracing nonetheless.<\/p>\n

BREAKING NEWS:<\/strong> We have a third, late entry for the end of the month, taken just hours earlier.<\/p>\n

\"budding
I’m fond of the bald cypress trees (Taxodium distichum<\/em>) that can be found around the nearby pond in places, and noticed that they were now starting to leaf out. Picking one verdant branch to shoot along, I liked the horizontal pattern, the short depth, and the sweeping curve, so it slides in at the last minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… or something like that. It’s end-of-month abstract time, is what I’m saying. Our abstract here is a great blue heron (Ardea herodias) that I’d waited until the light was bad so the shutter would drag, and captured it on takeoff – this was all carefully planned to appear like impressionist brush strokes, y’ see. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3,12],"tags":[451,5406,5462,69,5461,2872,5407],"class_list":["post-25710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-ardea-herodias","tag-bald-cypress","tag-bless-their-hearts","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-lily-pad","tag-pine-pollen","tag-taxodium-distichum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710","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=25710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}