{"id":951,"date":"2010-03-18T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2010-03-18T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:40:54","slug":"first-bluebonnet-and-more-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"First Bluebonnet (and more flowers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not fully open yet, but we count “first bluebonnet” from the first “bonnets” being open, so this counts.\u00a0 You can see one not as far along in the background.<\/p>\n

In another shot, you can see that it’s already the target for hungry insects.\u00a0 Here there’s one tiny\u00a0 fly nose-down in a flower (seen from above) and one on the left zooming in.<\/p>\n

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For some reason, the first yellow evening primroses stayed open today in brilliant sun–it was about 1:30 this afternoon that I photographed them:<\/p>\n

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Many of the flowers, including the bluebonnets, aren’t fully open yet.\u00a0\u00a0 This Drummond wild onion still has slightly folded petals:<\/p>\n

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The verbena’s also just starting to open its flowers…soon this will be a ball of pinkish purple:<\/p>\n

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But the delicate little white mustard-family flower–I think this is Capsella bursa-pastoris<\/em>–is already dropping some flowers to set seed.<\/p>\n

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Finally, on the north fenceline, the clump of Mexican plums is in full bloom and you can hear the bees in it from yards and yards away:<\/p>\n

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(And I haven’t forgotten the insect lovers:\u00a0 Here’s the first green lacewing of the year, hiding out between tiny leaves just bursting from a cedar elm bud.)<\/p>\n

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Notice that the bronzy-red eyes of the lacewing almost match the bronzy-red of the bud casing the leaves came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not fully open yet, but we count “first bluebonnet” from the first “bonnets” being open, so this counts.\u00a0 You can see one not as far along in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7,4],"tags":[13,38,32,70],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-plantlife","category-wildlife","tag-beauty","tag-insect","tag-native-plants","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}