{"id":33905,"date":"2023-02-28T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=33905"},"modified":"2023-02-28T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:26:42","slug":"i-dont-date-months-under-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/02\/i-dont-date-months-under-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t date months under 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last day of poor little underdeveloped February (wait, it&#8217;s not a leap year, is it? No, 2023, probably not,) and I shot nothing even remotely abstract all month. Granted, there wasn&#8217;t a bounty of things to shoot anyway, but here we are, making do with a frame taken not hours ago, heavily cropped to make it abstracty in some loose, Walkabout sense<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/HyacinthAb.jpg\" alt=\"close up of hyacinth blossom\" width=\"750\" height=\"951\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33906\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Hardly an award-winner, even by my standards (and there&#8217;s apparently a petition to keep me from even using the word, &#8220;standards,&#8221; snobbish pedantic pricks,) but what it does illustrate is that there is some color popping up here and there, and given that it was 18&#176;c while I was out there shooting at 11:30 PM, who&#8217;s complaining? Not me, at least not about things other than stupid petitions.<\/p>\n<p>But while we&#8217;re here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NotAtAllAbstractFrog.jpg\" alt=\"small green treefrog Drypophytes cinereus peering skyward\" width=\"750\" height=\"904\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33908\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This was one of five green treefrogs (<em>Dryophytes cinereus<\/em>) found out there while poking around, because see above about temperature, not to mention that it had rained lightly earlier, yet the moon was out as I was shooting. I suspect this guy was checking up on the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/observing\/2023\/02\/venus-and-jupiter-conjunction-2023\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conjunction<\/a>, though that&#8217;ll be tomorrow night, March 1<sup>st<\/sup>, and I&#8217;ll be out there myself if the conditions hold &#8211; it&#8217;s not looking too promising right now, but we&#8217;ll see (or not,) I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last day of poor little underdeveloped February (wait, it&#8217;s not a leap year, is it? No, 2023, probably not,) and I shot nothing even remotely abstract all month. Granted, there wasn&#8217;t a bounty of things to shoot anyway, but here we are, making do with a frame taken not hours ago, heavily cropped [&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":[6673,6854,2505],"class_list":["post-33905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-blue-hyacinth","tag-dryophytes-cinereus","tag-green-treefrog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33905","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=33905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}