{"id":2843,"date":"2015-04-12T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2015-04-12T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:47:07","slug":"irises-in-the-bog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=2843","title":{"rendered":"Irises in the bog"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite times in the year – when the irises bloom. The first flush has just started – purple and blue. Beautiful! The red and yellows will be showing up in about 3 days. Love this picture especially when it is opened to a a full window.\"DSCN5067\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring has turned the grass a fresh green. A novelty here in Texas as the heat turns up.<\/p>\n

\"DSCN5057\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSCN5058\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicely tidied up garden for the year. Unfortunately the oak blossoms just fell, so I will be back in the garden, spending considerable time pulling those blossoms out of the bog and rocks. Just in time for mosquito season. \ud83d\ude00\"DSCN5072\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And along the pond edge, the Gaura is sending out it’s butterfly blooms. What a pretty plant. I will appreciate it now because once the heat sets in, it goes almost dormant until next spring. I have found some Portulaca I will plant next to it, to cover the times it is not in bloom. One of Portulaca’s many blessing is that it loves the heat.\"DSCN5085\"<\/a>After a day of work, a special place to rest with a glass of wine at sunset, to appreciate the Mexican plum blooms on a bench near the water. What a peaceful little sanctuary. \"DSCN4976\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally as a parting shot of the setting sun barely touching the pale blossoms of the desert mallow.\"DSCN4985ed\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite times in the year – when the irises bloom. The first flush has just started – purple and blue. Beautiful! The red and yellows will be showing up in about 3 days. Love this picture especially … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}