{"id":6002,"date":"2012-01-06T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2012-01-06T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:39:06","slug":"friday-flower-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=6002","title":{"rendered":"Friday: flower-like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The self imposed challenge (spurred on by <a href=\"http:\/\/sonc.com\/look\/?p=1613\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Carter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cartersxrd.net\/Site\/newyear.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ric Carter<\/a> and other <a href=\"http:\/\/leica-users.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/lug\" target=\"_blank\">LUG<\/a> members)\u00a0to consider photographing &#8220;flowers&#8221; each and every friday continues. Walking about my little plot of ground I expect to find some interesting, dried remnant of what was once a &#8220;flower.&#8221; It&#8217;s drab. Overcast. Gray &#8211; though an unseasonably warm 47 degrees F. Quite suddenly my eye catches this bit of unexpected life; apparently tricked into thinking &#8220;spring.&#8221; Normally the first week of January would have this few square inches of ground buried under a foot or more of snow. While not a flower it seems to have flower-like qualities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/L1140330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6003\" title=\"L1140330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/L1140330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/L1140330.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/L1140330-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/L1140330-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/L1140330-1024x659.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica R8\/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self imposed challenge (spurred on by Sonny Carter and Ric Carter and other LUG members)\u00a0to consider photographing &#8220;flowers&#8221; each and every friday continues. Walking about my little plot of ground I expect to find some interesting, dried remnant of what was once a &#8220;flower.&#8221; It&#8217;s drab. Overcast. Gray &#8211; though an unseasonably warm 47 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,55,33,17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-flora","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}