{"id":26287,"date":"2012-07-12T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=26287"},"modified":"2012-07-12T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:45:28","slug":"whats-beautiful-now-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/photography\/whats-beautiful-now-looking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Beautiful Now: Looking Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Montana may lay claim to the phrase “big sky country,” but New York is no slouch when it comes to panoramic vistas. Near a hilltop, or just beyond the boughs of the Forest<\/a>‘s trees, you can catch the blue expanse above the NYBG<\/a> without the cityscape that usually frames it. No radio towers, no skyscrapers marking up the periphery–just clouds of every shape and consistency.<\/p>\n

It’s good for daydreaming.<\/p>\n

On afternoons where the barometer reads high and the sun is clear, you see opal blue in rich or dusky shades. Other days, the sky is a scatter of swoops and ruffles that you’d have to climb pretty high to enjoy elsewhere in the city. But as I remember it, “show, don’t tell” is a rule you pick up in middle school language arts class. I suppose I should follow it, huh?
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I can’t say much for the latter half of June–that heat was devilish. But the summer’s going easy on us this week! Bring your sunscreen, stuff a pair of shorts in your backpack, and don’t forget to look up. There’s more to appreciate here than what’s sprouting from the ground, and plenty of spots to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NYBG’s skyward vistas offer a whole new meaning to the phrase “big sky country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":26301,"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":[952,146,1439],"tags":[2652,2653,4633],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Clouds-Header.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6PZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287"}],"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=26287"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26327,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287\/revisions\/26327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}