{"id":1711,"date":"2015-04-07T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2015-04-07T23:15:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T03:15:53","slug":"dogwoods-and-redbuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"Dogwoods and Redbuds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 97<\/p>\n<p>The quintessential sign of spring for me is the arrival of blooming dogwood and redbud trees.\u00a0 These are indigenous to much of the south, and the Tennessee countryside where I grew was full of them.\u00a0 I cannot remember a spring when they were not both prevalent and hearty.\u00a0 Once they start to bloom, they go &#8220;full tilt&#8221; within a couple of days.\u00a0 The dogwoods show like light in a mostly dark, dead forest as it awakens from winter&#8217;s grip.\u00a0 Many varieties of trees and flowers have been blooming here for the past 3-4 weeks, but I&#8217;ve noticed an explosion of these two favorites the last couple of days.\u00a0 Spring has sprung!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1713\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150407_007.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1713\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1713\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150407_007-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Spring in the Park\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150407_007-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150407_007.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring in the Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X100s, 23mm f\/2.0, 1\/125 @ f\/5.6, ISO1250<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 97 The quintessential sign of spring for me is the arrival of blooming dogwood and redbud trees.\u00a0 These are indigenous to much of the south, and the Tennessee countryside where I grew was full of them.\u00a0 I cannot remember a spring when they were not both prevalent and hearty.\u00a0 Once they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,5,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}