{"id":28607,"date":"2024-05-01T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28607"},"modified":"2024-04-30T00:13:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:13:24","slug":"ahhh-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ahhh-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahhh, spring &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28608\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/spring-again.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28608\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28608\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/spring-again-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fine lawn. A fine dandelion in blossom.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. It&#8217;s May 1st and all the flowers are beginning to blossom &#8211; some even last month. We know spring has arrived because the lawns are alive with flowers &#8211; dandelions.<\/p>\n<p>We notice many lawns sprouting these nasty beauties. We have dug out over 4,000 this spring, mainly from our lawn. The little plants are rather pretty at this stage &#8211; and free thanks to a prevailing northwest wind and an indifferent neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>The photographing of flowers is a common side venture of photographers as shown in the earlier post called &#8220;Night Flower&#8221; which covers an exhibition of the work of Ms Sara Angelucci at the Stephen Bulger Gallery as part of this year&#8217;s CONTACT event.<\/p>\n<p>A great shot of any flower demands timing, close-up, framing, and lighting skills that test the casual photographer or even the professional. Ahhh spring &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. It&#8217;s May 1st and all the flowers are beginning to blossom &#8211; some even last month. We know spring has arrived because the lawns are alive with flowers &#8211; dandelions. We notice many lawns sprouting these nasty beauties. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ahhh-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[357,74,1179,555,100],"class_list":["post-28607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","tag-contact","tag-exhibition","tag-flowers","tag-gallery","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28611,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions\/28611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}