{"id":5063,"date":"2018-05-28T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T15:25:05","slug":"magical-backyard-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/05\/28\/magical-backyard-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Backyard Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s going to be 100 degrees soon. I need to go out for that jog before the heat of this day arrives in earnest.&nbsp;But that can wait just a moment longer&#8230; The light in the backyard is magical. The flowers of spring are still enjoying the (relative) cool of morning, but even that will soon be gone.<\/p>\n<p>There is Trudy&#8217;s Heartleaf Skullcap which has exploded this year to consume the entire plant bed outside our bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-6Td2tbb\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-6Td2tbb\/0\/067ec7c6\/L\/DSC_0210-b-L.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is the Bergamot against the fence which has exploded this year in spite of the best efforts of the Texas Walnut to allelopathically clear the understory of any competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-7ZzvhJb\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-7ZzvhJb\/0\/42e1934d\/L\/DSC_0216-b-L.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is the Desert Willow, that seems to suspect its days are numbered and is pushing out blossoms and new growth with abandon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-2VbKxmk\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-2VbKxmk\/0\/435d70b6\/L\/DSC_0226-b-L.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course there is the Cone Flower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-xjrWfnq\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/05\/i-xjrWfnq\/0\/751926b8\/L\/DSC_0228-b-L.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now it is time to get that running in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s going to be 100 degrees soon. I need to go out for that jog before the heat of this day arrives in earnest.&nbsp;But that can wait just a moment longer&#8230; The light in the backyard is magical. The flowers of spring are still enjoying the (relative) cool of morning, but even that will soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}