{"id":20333,"date":"2012-02-29T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=20333"},"modified":"2012-02-28T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T16:29:19","slug":"morning-eye-candy-to-a-crocus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/02\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-to-a-crocus\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: To a Crocus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Welcome, wild harbinger of spring!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To this small nook of earth;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Feeling and fancy fondly cling<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Round thoughts which owe their birth<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To thee, and to the humble spot<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bernard Barton, &#8220;To a Crocus&#8221; (1827)<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me for crooning verse so early in the year, but it seems spring has no qualms with breaking schedule. These little guys have popped up near Wamsler Rock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"20336\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/02\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-to-a-crocus\/attachment\/mec-wamsler-rock\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1331\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1330010760&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"By Wamsler Rock\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock-1024x681.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20336\" title=\"By Wamsler Rock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Crocus chrysanthus <\/em>&#8216;Cream Beauty&#8217; &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Cream Beauty&#8217; waves in an early spring near Wamsler Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":20336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[164,1512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MEC-Wamsler-Rock.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-5hX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20333"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20343,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions\/20343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}