{"id":28086,"date":"2021-01-30T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=28086"},"modified":"2021-01-30T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T19:23:16","slug":"who-needs-some-color-raise-your-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/01\/who-needs-some-color-raise-your-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs some color? Raise your hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cool
So, last night I finally got around to updating the Latest Images gallery<\/a>, which had sat dormant for, seriously, don’t ask how long, mostly because I was posting all of my latest images instead. There’s nothing that said that I couldn’t put them in both places, for those who only<\/em> went to the blog or only<\/em> went to the galleries, and you know, the galleries are supposed to be the ‘landing’ pages of the site, so I’m planning on making updates a more regular, semi-scheduled thing (which means the reminders are already in the calendar.) So some\/most of the images have appeared here on the blog before, but so what who cares?<\/p>\n

While gathering them, however, I came across a lot of colorful frames in the Leaves\/Plants\/Trees folder, appreciating the brightness in these drab winter days, and since it’s damn cold out there right now and this is true for most of the eastern seaboard, I figured we needed a color day. Above (and appearing before,) we have one of the delphinium blooms from a plant I bought last year, that I’m hoping comes back this year because, damn, look at them! They’re pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Most of these are reasonably local, by the way, if not necessary ‘native.’<\/p>\n

\"firewheel
This is a firewheel, a type of aster, and I’m pretty sure it was in the pollinator garden at Gold Park, but so what who cares? It came up pretty quickly when I did a search based on the rough description – those yellow tips are distinct.<\/p>\n

\"mimosa
Mimosa blossoms of course, from the neighborhood pond. I’ve collected a bunch of seed pods of these now, intending to start them indoors within the next month, because they’re cool trees to have around. Maybe I’ll try to breed a variant that aggressively kills all of the longneedle pines in the state…<\/p>\n

\"wisteria
Wisteria cluster, of course, also from the nearby pond. They’re one of the species that makes the season firmly ‘spring’ around here.<\/p>\n

\"possibly
I’d have to go back and check the dates and I don’t feel like that right now, but I think<\/em> these are the cherry blossoms from the tree right in our own front yard. You’d think I could definitively recognize them by now, but so what who cares? They’re white with some yellow, which is the purpose of this post.<\/p>\n

\"blackberry
Blackberry lilies, definitely from our own front garden, a nice late bloomer. We’re not going chronologically here, but trying to balance out the various colors.<\/p>\n

Speaking of that…<\/p>\n

\"partridge
Partridge peas, almost certainly from Mason Farm Biological Reserve because that’s almost the only place I ever see them. I realized that I had no yellow in the lineup and went looking for an example, with a bonus of the attendant green. There are remarkably few green flowers, you know? I mean, worldwide<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"morning
The planted morning glories have certainly appeared here before, and in fact I tried not to post them too often, but they’re pretty cool looking nonetheless. Definitely adding more of them this year, though likely with a little more color variety.<\/p>\n

\"pollen
The pollen within four-o’clock blooms is more distinct that many other flowers, and reflect the flash nicely for those glossy-orb highlights, but it does take some higher magnifications.<\/p>\n

\"December
We’re going a lot more current now, because this is from December 7th, one of the azaleas bushes within the front yard. Only this little patch bloomed, and I don’t know why – possibly a prank pulled on it by neighboring branches, “Hey, hurry up, it’s spring, you’re late!” Or something. I’m not going to speculate what goes through the minds of flowers.<\/p>\n

But even more current is our last today.<\/p>\n

\"January
I’d seen this a couple days back and though to check it right before starting this post, so this is about as current as we get, but this is from early this afternoon, a frostbitten phlox (or maybe periwinkle – The Girlfriend’s Sprog and I have debated it without reaching a conclusion) attempting to weather the sub-freezing temperature right now. Again, all by itself and well in advance (or way the hell behind) the normal blooming season, but this species, whatever it is, has a little more tendency towards this because I’ve caught it before. So it’s some color for today, from<\/em> today, so that makes this post extra-special, right? Of course it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, last night I finally got around to updating the Latest Images gallery, which had sat dormant for, seriously, don’t ask how long, mostly because I was posting all of my latest images instead. There’s nothing that said that I couldn’t put them in both places, for those who only went to the blog or […]<\/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":[5903,3829,5548,5902,2869,5904,5783,1941,3104,4218,3123,5464],"class_list":["post-28086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-blackberry-lily","tag-cherry-blossoms","tag-delphinium","tag-firewheel","tag-four-oclock-flower","tag-maybe-periwinkle","tag-mimosa","tag-morning-glory","tag-partridge-pea","tag-phlox","tag-pink-azalea","tag-wisteria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086","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=28086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}