{"id":28429,"date":"2021-03-18T19:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=28429"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:59:39","slug":"maybe-a-prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/03\/maybe-a-prelude\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe a prelude"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oak-leaf
We’re sitting here with dire threats of horrible weather if we don’t eat our vegetables, though as I type this not a damn thing is going on. We’d had a bit of rain overnight, and this morning while it was still a little misty I did a handful of photos out in the yard. Above, one of the oak-leaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea quercifolia<\/em>) shows some new buds while still retaining a leaf from last year, demonstrating a curious trait:<\/strong> the new buds are definitely a bit hydrophobic, causing the water drops to bead up, while the old leaf is just the opposite, allowing the water to adhere smoothly and evenly. Why? Shit, don’t ask me, I just takes picchers…<\/p>\n

I shot a similar composition of The Girlfriend’s Yoshino cherry tree, just breaking out into bloom.<\/p>\n

\"new
I think the tree still has two leaves from last year clinging stubbornly to the branches, so I framed one of them for this shot, then concentrated on the new blooms for more fartsy stuff.<\/p>\n

\"rain
Yeah, I know, there’s probably a few hundred photos of water drops on leaves and petals on the blog alone, to say nothing of my stock folders. But would you rather see these, or still-mostly-dead grass and bare trees? Okay then. And you probably blew past this so fast you never noticed how the flash snagged a few mist droplets in the air<\/p>\n

There’s detail on that flower that deserves a closer look, so lucky for you I’m right here on it.<\/p>\n

\"closeup
Pretty cool, right? I know you feel bad now for judging me as trite and stuck in a rut.<\/p>\n

The sky was overcast, so natural light photos tended to be a bit lackluster, also requiring a wide-open aperture and slower shutter speed, so most of those aren’t all that great, but I happened to like the one following, of some tulips we planted this past week.<\/p>\n

\"tiny
That’s<\/em> some serious fart, right there. Just brimming with culture. Like moldy yogurt.<\/p>\n

My favorite, however, was a wild plant springing up in the edge of one of our pots, not something that we planted.<\/p>\n

\"unidentified
It looks a lot like shamrocks, and might<\/em> actually be a species of Oxalis<\/em>, but for now it remains unidentified. The leaf clusters are very small, less than a centimeter across, so much smaller than the typical Oxalis<\/em> species. And yes, I’m a day late – oh well, better luck next year.<\/p>\n

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Side note:<\/strong> I was finishing this post just as the rain started in earnest, and I sat on it to see if I’d have any cool photos to add – we were told big-ass hail, high winds, and tornado warnings, so, you know, drama<\/em>. We got rain, and not even as heavy as some of the interminable winter rains. Ho hum.<\/p>\n

In other news, the countdown continues – we’re three away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re sitting here with dire threats of horrible weather if we don’t eat our vegetables, though as I type this not a damn thing is going on. We’d had a bit of rain overnight, and this morning while it was still a little misty I did a handful of photos out in the yard. Above, […]<\/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":[2671,2195,2670,6013,2564,6014,6015,6012],"class_list":["post-28429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-hydrangea-quercifolia","tag-mist","tag-oak-leaf-hydrangea","tag-prunus-x-yedoensis","tag-raindrops","tag-tulip","tag-tulipa","tag-yoshino-cherry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28429","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=28429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}