{"id":29824,"date":"2021-08-21T23:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29824"},"modified":"2021-08-22T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T14:57:44","slug":"saturday-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/08\/saturday-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday color"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a list of the titles of every post, in an attempt not to have duplicates, and double-checked this one before continuing. Not only have I not done ‘Saturday color’ before, the only<\/em> time I’ve done Saturday in a title has been ‘Saturday night black & white<\/a>,’ only a few months ago. Go figure.<\/p>\n

Anyway, quick photos without much exposition, from an outing today. I have less than 90 minutes left to post this before it’s not<\/em> Saturday, so wish me luck.<\/p>\n

\"closeup
You’d think just posting some photos wouldn’t be much of a challenge, but I’m providing the species names too, which requires looking them up. This was almost the easiest, since I’ve posted it before<\/a>, though that doesn’t mean I remember the name or how to find the post quickly. It’s a purpletop vervain (Verbena bonariensis<\/em>,) going in close with very short depth, so I chose one particular blossom to focus upon, never realizing that it still had dew on it from the morning.<\/p>\n

\"small
This is a small red morning glory – that’s not a description, but the actual name – a member of the Convolvulaceae<\/em> family which is as specific as it gets, apparently. Plus some unidentified purple flower in the background. Only about 15-20mm across, much smaller than the common morning glory bloom sizes.<\/p>\n

\"likely
There are a significant number of salvia (or sage) varieties, but I’m guessing this one is a gentian sage (Salvia patens<\/em>.) I’m not even going to try to identify the tiny sweat bees checking it out, since they measured all of 5mm at the most. That’s not being sizest – some of my best friends are 5mm. It’s just that I don’t have enough identifying features to make the effort. Plus it’s still Saturday…<\/p>\n

\"fireweed
One thing about flowers is, they usually have a variety of ‘common’ names, and this one in particular goes by fireweed, narrow-leaf fireweed, willow herb, rosebay willow herb, and blooming sally – but all are Chamerion angustifolium<\/em>. Again, in close for detail of dew and unopened buds, though the petals and the buds themselves were 20-25mm, so the open blossom was fairly big.<\/p>\n

And finally,<\/p>\n

\"firewheel
This is perhaps the most geometrically perfect blossom that I’ve ever photographed, so of course I had to do the direct perspective. It’s a firewheel, or Indian blanket, or Indian blanketflower, or perhaps even Native-American woven-covering herbaceous genitalia (probably not, but Gaillardia pulchella<\/em> is likely anyway.) As I type this, it seems I’ve also featured these before, though I don’t remember it, but the tag appeared in the list as I started to type it. Ah, yes, earlier this year<\/a> too. But not as Euclidean as this one.<\/p>\n

There’s going to be another color post coming soon, from the same outing too, but this time it’ll be arthropods. Alert your friends, call in the dog, whatever it takes.<\/p>\n

And so you know, it’s 11:35 PM as I hit ‘Publish’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a list of the titles of every post, in an attempt not to have duplicates, and double-checked this one before continuing. Not only have I not done ‘Saturday color’ before, the only time I’ve done Saturday in a title has been ‘Saturday night black & white,’ only a few months ago. Go figure. […]<\/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":[6345,3596,6344,5902,6346,6342,5610,6341,6340,6343,5609],"class_list":["post-29824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-chamerion-angustifolium","tag-convolvulaceae","tag-fireweed","tag-firewheel","tag-gaillardia-pulchella","tag-gentian-sage","tag-purpletop-vervain","tag-salvia-patens","tag-small-red-morning-glory","tag-sweat-bees","tag-verbena-bonariensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29824","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=29824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}