{"id":143,"date":"2011-10-30T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T05:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/143-spring-flowers.html"},"modified":"2011-10-30T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T06:45:46","slug":"spring-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/143-spring-flowers.html","title":{"rendered":"Spring Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:285 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5457.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Beautiful Pink Roses<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLast week we spent the afternoon in my parents garden and took the time to admire the colours of Spring.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- s9ymdb:286 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"720\" height=\"483\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5462.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bird of Paradise<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nComplete with resident ants!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- s9ymdb:292 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"720\" height=\"483\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5485.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Orange Blossom<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe orange tree has not blossomed for years. The recent rain as done wonders.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- s9ymdb:287 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5465.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Purple Iris<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe garden was full of Irises of all colours. The purple ones were my favourite.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- s9ymdb:289 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"720\" height=\"483\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5467.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Purple &amp; White<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nNote sure what these are but interesting to see both white and purple blooms on the same flower.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- s9ymdb:290 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5474.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; More Colour<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnother flower I could not put a name to but was most accommodating for the camera, waiting patiently for me to take this image.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- s9ymdb:291 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5481.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Catherine Wheel<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOK, now I am just making up names but at least this one reminded me of Catherine wheels back in the days when we were allowed fireworks. I don&#8217;t remember any purple Catherine wheels back then!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- s9ymdb:288 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_5466.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sunny<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nUntil the next post, keep enjoying the blooms of Spring (unless you suffer from hay fever! ) &#8230;Robert \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>All Photos: Robert Rath, October 2011. Please ask if you want to know more about my images.<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Beautiful Pink Roses Last week we spent the afternoon in my parents garden and took the time to admire the colours of Spring. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bird of Paradise Complete with resident ants! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Orange Blossom The orange tree has not blossomed for years. &#8230; <a title=\"Spring Flowers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/143-spring-flowers.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spring Flowers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}